The thrill and excitement of recital time! There's nothing like it! We kicked off things on the 19th with a performance at the Huntington Place Assisted Living where Grace's class performed for the residents. For her ballet number it ended up being just her and one other girl from her class and for tap just three total which was kind of neat for her. Then came this last week where we had dress rehearsal at the PAC on Wednesday night and performance on Saturday morning. Rehearsal went real well despite them missing one girl which kind of threw them off on their placement on stage. The day of the recital is always a crazy one and with it being in the morning it sure made a rush of things. Grace was up at 7:15 to eat and be to Cost Cutters for her hair at 8am. She had a little problem getting her breakfast to go down and complaining of a stomach ache, I'm betting it was a little nerves kicking in! Grace was excited to be getting her hair done and so was Mom with a little of the stress taken off my shoulders. We met Grace's friend Allie there and her sister Avery who were both in the recital. $40 later, YIKES, (I did walk into Cost Cutters right?), we were on our way home for make up and a costume change. On our way to the PAC Grace was complaining of her stomach ache, aka butterflies again! Mom was feeling them a little bit for her too, finding myself taking a few deep breathes on the way over. The performance went really well. It was SO neat to see her up there smiling and doing her very best, she truly seemed in her element. That girl sure has incredible stage presence. We made it through with minor mishaps. In ballet her friend Allie seemed to steal Grace's mark which in turn made Grace move around her to make sure she was in the right spot, gee imagine that. Then in tap poor Allie, next to Grace again, lost her tap shoe as she was doing a shuffle step. All in all it was a great day for Grace and she had SO much fun! She was really happy to have G&G Walsh, G. Tom and Aunt Linda and Cousin Kay there to watch. Afterwards we enjoyed a nice lunch, great weather and visiting with all who came!
Below is a slide show from the day of performance along with some pictures of us planting trees in the backyard on Sunday!!
Wow, Grace looks so old. It is strange that she is so big already. It doesn't seem that long age that I came to the hospital that very hot day that she was first going home from the hospital. She looks just beautiful!!! Hope that you are all well.
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Margy