We Made it Through Another Recital Day!

And what a fabulous day it was! The recital is always an ordeal. Getting downtown on time, getting Sid into the change room and ready to go on stage 6 numbers before her dance. Costumes, makeup, perfect hair. and months of learning and practicing the dance. This year, being our third recital, was different. Sid's dance was second in the second act so dropping her off was a breeze. We had the entire intermission to have her ready and I didn't have to sneak in and out of the packed auditorium. The transitions went beautifully and our ballerina danced her heart out. This year they were crayons and danced to a Colour Your World Crayola song. Very, very cute. Sadly two partners got mixed up while walking on stage and the dance came to a complete halt. For the first minute 17 kids just stood there looking at each other. Sid did her part at the other end of the line and waited to skip around the stage. It all took shape eventually and the kids pulled off the second half of the dance.
I was so proud of Sid, she kept on going through the entire thing and once again was not afraid of dancing in front of 1000 people. Not something I could EVER do! The most rewarding part is meeting Sid back in the change room where she is waiting with a huge "I did it!" smile spread across her face. Such well deserved joy and pride. Good for you Sid, you danced beautifully once again and Mom and Dad are so proud of you! xoxoxox

We watched the second half of the show and then planned to take Sid out to lunch, however Sid wanted to go right to drama class instead. We thought we would miss it because of the recital but surprisingly we had enough time to make it and Sid was ecstatic to spend time her best friend. While the girls were in class, the parents came up with a great plan! Dad's would take the girls to see Kung Fu Panda in 3D and mom's would take themselves over to the Pow Wow and we'd all meet back at 5:00.

The girls (and Dad's) loved the movie and said the 3D was awesome. The girls particularly liked the glasses :)

Here Sid is saying "We're going to shout Best Sisters on three!"

"BEST SISTERS!!!!"

Once again she's got this whole flower child vibe going on.

The Pow Wow was very cool with all the drumming, singing and regalia. The sun even came out for a few photo ops.

What a memorable day for everyone!

House League Champs

For yet another year, the Xtreme won the house league Competitive Division Championship this past weekend. It was a great season with a great group of friends and a personal G.A.A. (goals against average) of 1.00 (which is 25 goals in 25 games) to take another Top Goalie award for me. After a solid week of working those new gloves in every night while watching TV, they did the trick and felt like old friends by the time the important games needed to be played. Now to continue with our ODWHA competitive league playoffs. The Mustangs have 3 more games to play and to qualify for the championship game we will have to win them all.

With Spring on the horizon we trekked off to the Experimental Farm today. The very first thing we saw were Canada Geese flying over the barns. What a welcome sight that was after walking up the long drive way in 40 to 90 km wind gusts. What a great way to brighten a cold stormy day. Sid made some new friends and was particularly please with this gal who she named Rosa the Sheep. She even sang Baa Baa Black Sheep to Rosa.
It was a very cold walk to the dairy barn but as always it was worth it to be able to pet and brush the little calves in the calf barn.After all the mucking about in the barns we got home and Sid decided she wanted to practice her ballet. I caught a few great pictures of her in her dancing glory.

Fittings for the ballet recital in June with be happening this weekend. Sid is very excited to be in a recital even though she had NO idea what a recital is. All she knows is she gets to dress like Tinkerbell and is in group 4 with her friend Charlotte. I will have to borrow a video camera to capture this, it should be priceless.

Expanding Our Horizons

Game Face

First of all, how cute are those little black and pink hockey gloves? Sid is so thrilled with them she wants to wear them to skating tomorrow! Atta girl, keep the stick below the shoulders and it isn't high sticking!

Hockey Card Pose

On Friday we went skating with Sid's friend Charlotte and her big sister Emily and their mom and dad and Sid was on the ice for an hour and 15 minutes. She was really tired after having been home sick all week but was ecstatic to finally be out having fun. Poor Emily is 5 and is just learning to skate and was devastated to see Sid out there skating without support or one of those learn to skate bars. Sid kept telling her how well she was doing and I am not sure that was really helping the situation.

The Ballet Studio

Over Christmas Sidney asked if she could please, please, please take ballet and Saturday was her first class. Again her friend Charlotte was there and has been in this class since September and will go until June. Sid signed up until June with the first 25 minutes tap and the second 25 minutes ballet. Unfortunately my camera batteries died after one picture so I got some with my cell phone. I will post good pictures after next weekends class. It was so unbelievably cute. Sidney decided she wanted to dance instead of gymnastics for the spring so this is what we are doing. I am out of my realm but she is having a great time!

Sid is the little one in the middle catching on really quickly. It i shard to believe all these kids are only 3 years old. Charlotte is left of Sid and also a tiny kid.

This past week while home sick Sid spent a lot of time doing sensory stuff like playdough and crafts. She also drew this picture of herself with a robin above her in the sky and a flower on her right. What cracked me up was her narration of her drawing. I don't remember everything she said but when she was drawing her face she drew the head, curly hair and eye bulbs that are blue.

When people ask if I let my dogs up on the furniture I wonder if they ever picture this? Now the funny thing is whenever I take Groovy for a home visit to approve a family for a rescued Airedale, she usually does this, she gets up on their coffee table. She had never done this in my home before but I think I was cooking bacon and she couldn't see what I was doing from the couch but had a great vantage point for the table. What a goof, I just love this dog!