Bella the ballerina with the black eye

I gave my girls the option of taking either ballet or gymnastics earlier this year. They both chose gymnastics (after taking it once at their cousins Chloe's and Keira's birthday party.) After many months, Bella has decided she wants back into ballet now, and that she doesn't want to go to gymnastics, so... we had our first ballet lesson (since about a year ago) and she was so excited! She kept asking me all morning- Can we go to ballet now? Before class I put on her outfit and snapped some pictures. Here she is pretending to be Sleeping Beauty and being woken up with a kiss. (Note her "shiner", which she got from trying to be a ballerina this past weekend and twirling a little too fast and falling on a couch ledge.)

Bella did great at ballet class! She volunteered to do the different steps and clapped for her new friends. We love her teacher Mrs. Michelle, who has red hair too. She was very encouraging to the children and used a stuffed animal sheep and ballerina doll to show the kids what to do- they ate it up. There are four other girls in her class that are little cuties too. We still need to work on "shuffle, hop, step" at home, but like I said she did great!