Every year, for the past eleven years, around this time of year it gets really tense around our house. We are making mental checklists making sure we have everything that we need for every dance that Sadie Bug's been in for this particular day....PICTURE DAY. Except this year it was a little different, we added a new dancer to the mix. Little Lulee started dance this year in the preschool tap and ballet class. She is following in the footsteps of her big sister. She looks up to Sadie, as Brynlea looks up to both Lulee and Sadie. Pretty soon Brynlea will be dancing right along with her sisters keeping the family tradition going. :)
Tonight and the preparation for tonight was hectic to say the least. I don't know if it was the excitement of it all, costume changes and hairstyle changes for Lulee or what, but she really was ready to go home before the shooting of the first photo, and there were five that she had to get made....two individuals, two groups and one with her and Sadie.
Lulee showed out and did not want to smile for any of the pictures after the first one. We had just eaten before we got there and she started begging me for food. After a couple of shots were made I got her some food and then low and behold if she wasn't begging me for some more. I was about to send her to Sonic, get her loaded up on a Coney Dog and Tots and then maybe her tapeworm might be satisfied for a minute. ;)
It was tough for her to hang in there that long for all those pictures, through all the hairspray fog and starving like her stomach was gnawing on her backbone, but all the pictures turned out really pretty and the photographer got a smile out of her for each of them. Maybe not the first time he tried, but he's an awesome photographer and he managed a smile out of all the girls. Brynlea did pretty good as well, she was wheeled around in her stroller for the most part, a friend held her for a little while, she ate and then she fell asleep. She had a pretty good night, all in all. ;)
The picture that I'm the most proud of, is the picture that Lulee and Sadie had made together. I remember Sadie begging for a baby sister since she was the age of two and she finally got her sister when she was 11. She started dancing when she was four, Lulee's age now. It is really sentimental, for me, this year seeing them both in dance at the same place that Sadie started at Lulee's age. Not only that, but they are doing a duo together, a sister dance....something that I never thought I'd be able to enjoy watching Sadie do with her sister, having such a big age difference between the two. It is going to be a very special recital this year seeing the two of them do their dance together....one just starting and one nearing the end of her dancing.
I took some pictures of them getting ready in their costumes tonight, but unfortunately, I got a message that the memory card was locked and I had no idea how to fix it.....so no pics to go along with this post, but definitely soon...of their recital :)
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whew!!!!!!!!
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