A Teensy Preview

This weekend, we head out of town for Sleeping Beauty's first official dance competition. Not only does this afford us the opportunity to use a lot of gas and find a McDonalds to eat at in a strange town, it lets us spend one whole Saturday immersed in dance. King can barely contain his excitement.

We had a formal meeting at the dance studio to make sure everyone was competition ready. The mom in charge looked directly at me when she said, "There will be one mom per group that is the inspector. If they tell you to put more make-up on your child, don't take it personally. They just need to be uniform on stage." I know this comment was especially for me because my ten-year-old was the only one at dress rehearsal that did not look like a drag queen.

Despite the overdone make-up, the girls did look mighty cute on stage. Here's a teensy preview of the dance. It could have been the whole dance had I remembered to take the pictures off of the camera before dress rehearsal. But, I didn't. And, you'll have to excuse the poor quality of the video. It was on my little digital camera, and I was a ways away. The dance director sort of frowned on people standing on stage to video tape their girls. She's kind of bossy that way.

(Sleeping Beauty is third from the left.)