Dance Dance Dance

Since we are currently evacuated for hurricane Isaac, I thought I would do a little blog updating.  (as an aside about Isaac: we left Monday night after it was announced that school was canceled for Tuesday and Wednesday.  D has to work and stay at the refinery and I did not want to just sit around the house and wait to see if the storm got bad and possibly lose electricity...heat in the south with no air. no thank you.  So a quick 3 hour drive and we arrived in MS for a mini vacation to see the grandparents.  Unfortunately as our bad luck would have it, Audrey seems to have come down with some mysterious illness as she had a temp of 103 this evening. yuck)

I have decided that the girls can do one extra curricular activity at a time - both for convenience and cost.  The options are more limited here than in Fairfax and I refuse to drive into Baton Rouge to do an activity for a 4 year old.  So I presented the girls with their options of soccer, dance, and tae kwon do.  For a couple of weeks they went back forth and were constantly changing their minds about what they wanted to do.  Fortunately the possibility of doing different things did not enter into the equation (Hooray for the sisterly solidarity!) The time we drawing near and the girls needed to commit and make a final decision.  They selected dance.  The final push to make dance the winner: costumes.  When they discovered that they would be in a recital and would have costume changes, they were sold.

So Tuesday nights from 6 to 7 we have dance class.  Thirty minutes of ballet and thirty minutes of tap.  They LOVE it (though to be fair it is clear that Brooke really loves it more and is totally committed.  I think Audrey is 70/30 for it - but she says that she loves it).  The teacher is awesome!  And they have already done so much.  It is amazing.  Again I have zero dance background but it seems like they are learning a ton.  Their favorite part (and mine too) is when they yell Hello Bar as they turn and face the bar.  For some reason it is just so cute!

Here are some, well a lot of, pics of them from their first couple of weeks.  They are so silly and cute and they love to pull their skirts up...for some reason that is just hilarious to them!