Double Dose of Alice

So...both girls were in their very own rendition of "Alice in Wonderland"this year. Kira's with her Up with Kid's group and Brynn's with BAC, her ballet company. Kira's group had a very loose interpretation of the story, where many other characters from other cartoons and stories made appearances so all the kids got a speaking part. Brynn's dance company told the story very traditionally.

Here are the girls with all the grands. My mom brought Brynn and Kira both flowers and harmonicas, since they had loved playing them so much in Hawaii. My parents brought Brynn something too because they were going to be in Hawaii again during brynn's performance. They have such a tough life. Grandma Jill brought Kira the cute smiley face balloon:). We were grateful to our awesome grandparents for sticking out the 2 hour performance! I guess that's what happens when every child on stage gets a speaking part! Then they started handing out awards to each child individually on stage. Once Kira got her "Oscar" I yanked her from stage so we could get hugs from everyone and let our grandparents get home before midnight!

Kira came out in the first scene of the play as "Jessie" from "Toy Story". She worked so hard on her lines and was soooo excited about her costume. I thought she made a cute little cowgirl. She also played a flower in Alice's garden, but I couldn't get a descent picture from stage. She loves the stage, loves to sing, dance and act. I think she'll stick with this for a while. Now if I could just get her to practice her piano!!

Here is Brynn after her ballet "Alice in Wonderland". She is beaming as you can see. I can't think of many things she likes to do more than dancing. She dances everywhere she goes. She is always turning on the music and getting everybody in the house dancing. She also has our little cute neighbor girls taking in house ballet lesson in our basement quite regularly! She is an excellent little teacher. Brynn was a "card" in her ballet. Like, as in a deck of cards. During the scene when the cards painting the roses red. It was a very difficult number that had three classes of girls combined in it. She looked so grown up on stage. My only regret is that we don't have a picture of her in her costume, because we missed picture day. It was her first time wearing a real professional tu tu. Oh well, it won't be the last either!Grandma Jill and Grandpa Don came to support Brynn. Grandpa is of course behind the camera, which we really to fix when we want a group picture, but we were so glad to have them there. Grandpa gave Brynn a pretty necklace with pearls and her birthstone on it. I am so proud of you Brynn. I know that you are going to be amazing because you love dance so much and are never going to ever give this up!!