Last weekend was Reina's dance recital. This year, she took three classes - ballet 4, Jazz 2 and Hip Hop 1. She's a dancing girl. She had three programs last weekend, one on Friday and two on Saturday. Throw in a 5k race that she and I did on Saturday morning and a brother's baseball game and it was one busy weekend.
Reina's hip hop class danced to music from Back to the Future. The recital's theme was music and movies from 1989. I jammed out.
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| Reina had a 'speaking' part in the dance. |
On Saturday, Almost-Kindergarten Cousin's class danced too and it ADORABLE. They danced to "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Vicky and I got the giggles every time the pre-dancers came on stage because someone would freeze in the lights, someone would forgot the dance and wave to family members and anytime they formed a circle, the poor kid at the end would get whipped because of physics.
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| Getting ready to make a circle |
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| Finding the right mark on the floor |
Reina's jazz class danced to a Debbie Gibson song from 1989. Months ago, Reina was telling me about the dance and when I asked what the song was, she confidently told me "Electrocute." I thought about that for a few weeks and couldn't remember any song like that from 1989. When I asked her to sing it, we figured out that it was "Electric Youth." Frankly, the song is much more enjoyable if you sign it as 'electrocute'.....
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| My jazzy girl |
Reina's ballet class danced to an Enya song and it was so pretty. Reina and I both thought this outfit was the prettiest. I just love watching her dance.
The first week of summer break is almost complete. Both kids had sports camps this week, basketball for Will over at UW and Reina did a volleyball camp at the community college. They are diving into this summer with a lot of enthusiasm and happiness to have a break from school. There's also a significant reluctance to pick up after themselves or learn cursive (one of my projects for them for the summer) but we'll tackle that one next week.
