supervising from the couch: Prima donnas in training

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Prima donnas in training

If I add six photos today does it make up for all the daily photos I've missed this week? I had a hard time narrowing down my favorites from Ellie's performance. Here's Ellie with her little shadow, just before leaving for Kingsbury Hall:

She is the baby swan right in the middle, in front of Rothbart—she danced beautifully, and loved every minute of it! Luckily they only banned flash photography, and I didn't use one.

They let the girls in Act I watch the rest of the first half, so I caught Ellie for a quick photo during the intermission:

Thanks to everyone in Ellie's cheering section!

Ainsley is the second prima donna in training. Only promises of a treat kept her from twirling in the aisle the entire time.

Two very happy girls!

3 comments:

Amanda Morgan said...: Darling! You've made me rethink our "boys only" policy!; April 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Rachel said...: Fun! I actually went to see the Friday night performance - my friend's daughter was in it and I went. Really neat ballet company, isn't it?; April 12, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Swimmingmom said...: First of all, your girls are beautiful and I love their outfits in the first picture! How fun that your daughter dances. She looks beautiful.; April 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM

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here's the story:

I was interviewed for a newpaper article about kids and sleep, and quoted as saying something like "when I'm tired, I feel like supervising from the couch." Ever since, it's been our catch phrase for slacker parenting. Ironically, I only had one child at the time and we were practically attached at the hip. Now that I have four older kids, they spend chunks of time playing without even the benefit of me watching from the couch. However, I do try to come running if it sounds like there might be blood. Somehow they have all thrived in spite of me.