Dance lessons!

Elizabeth had her first ever dance class this morning. Her first ever dance class was supposed to be last week but her loser mom forgot about it. oops. The class went really well and Elizabeth reacted to it just as I expected her to. It took her a little while to warm up to what was going on. She mainly spent the first ten mintues playing with the shoe rack outside. I didn't try to push her too hard to join us because I knew that that could go ALL wrong, so I just waited for her to join us on her own. She had nothing to do with the warm ups (I am quickly learning that Elizabeth doesn't have much patience for slow, careful, methodical things...) though jumped right in when things got more lively. The intsy wintsy (spelling?) spider song was her icebreaker, since she already knew all the actions from nursery. She ran right beside the teacher and enthusiastically followed her moves, letting out huge bursts of belly laughter (that can sometimes be kind of embarassing to hear in public - you'd have to hear her to understand....). Oh dear. I was really happy to watch how much fun she has with the other kids and how she is really great at encouraging the shy or sad kids to participate. She says "come on! come on!" and coaxes them over with a little hand signal. On the other hand, it scares me a bit to see that she is usually the first one to cause mischief. Why don't the other kids notice all the fancy sparkly dance equipment in the corner? oh boy. Here are a few pictures of Elizabeth's first dance class experience, in chornological order: Hanging out with the shoes.... She is a bit weary, but trying....

wooooooo! purple scarves to whip around!

Twirling with scarves - notice Mason hanging out by in the back corner. He's so cool all the time!!!!