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Sleeping Beauty Ballet dance recital

 On Sunday, June 3rd, Maddy got to perform in the Sleeping Beauty ballet for recital. The recital was at Courtyard Theatre in Plano, TX. These first pictures are pictures of the rehearsal. We did that on Wednesday. I was not a fan of sitting through rehearsal but definitely understand the need for it. I needed a rehearsal on getting Maddy dressed and made up. I did such a terrible job on her bun on rehearsal night. It looked like a birds nest. One of the older ballerinas was able to show me how to do her bun and told me to get a hair net to hold the pieces that were sticking out into a neat bun. They ran each dance through without music and then with music without the instructor on the stage and then everyone had to rehearse the final scene so it too FOR.EV.ER.

I did a great job on Maddy's hair on Friday. Make up went a lot better too. She had learned how to do the "mascara face" so we didn't have so many smears and blinks to clean up and redo. Trying to put make up on a 7 year old is pure stress. But she loves make up so she was loving it the whole time.


 These are the two girls who were in her dance. Sweetest girls ever. Maddy was best buds with them by the time the recital was over. They had to hang out back stage together the entire performance so they really bonded.
After recital we gave her a cookie set and she got a Hank the cowdog book from Dr. Rachel. Dr. Rachel, Tammy, and the Halls all came to see her performance.
 This is Kelsay waiting for the show to start.
 The performance. Maddy was a "petite crystal fountain fairy".



 This is a picture of Maddy with her dance instructor who played the evil fairy in the ballet. The picture came out blurry because I forgot to put the flash on. I need to start hauling my good camera to these things. SO.MUCH. WORK. And I don't have 1,000 things to carry anyway, but I would have better pictures. Humph.
 This is what happens after your have to keep up with your sister all week.
 Hank the Cowdog was treasured gift. She fell asleep reading it.
 Just threw some pictures of the kids playing in the pool in here in the end. We have done this every morning this week because it is FRYING here. It rained and rained and rained and now we are steaming, boiling, baking, roasting, frying....and we are still just in the 90's.



Comments

Anonymous said…
So cute! She looks like a princess. I'm sure I would have brought a book for the rehearsal...eeps. I love the pic of her falling asleep to Hank the Cow dog. Great stuff.
brittany
June 9, 2016 at 5:29 PM
bee said…
I love all the posts. I think Maddy looks so sweet and just like a princess should. I really miss getting to see all the stuff Maddy gets to do, but maybe someday I will get to be a part of some of it. I noticed that Kels was doing some of the dance moves when we were with you at Memorial day that MM was doing in the recital. : )
June 9, 2016 at 6:04 PM
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