Dance Recitals

Between Friday, June 3rd and Saturday, June 4th, Lainey performed in 5 recitals! 

a little lipstick touchup before performing "Brave"

a little love for Haley (left) and JJ (right) after one of the ballet recitals

Lainey and Morgan...pre-ballet recital

so silly

After the final recital, the girls head out to the fountains to celebrate. They have so much fun. It's maybe the best part of the entire weekend.

our sweet friend Faith

pretending to be unicorns...with cupcakes... ;)

AND! Here's our bird. Our pigeon. Who was stuck on our car...not budging. At all.

He/She let us get really, really close.

And it stood on the hood of our car while we drove out of the parking garage.

Yep...still there. :) We finally removed it with a towel (I think its wings were broken) and left it near the parking garage. It broke my heart! It was so sad. And clearly needed some love. Lainey's solutions to our bird problem were to 1) call the police 2) call animal rescue or 3) call Ms. Christine (who is my friend, and apparently the solver-of-all-problems).

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This, to me, is hilarious. Sweet Lainey has to work a lot at holding in her core when she dances. It's a constant struggle. She started this story at school...and I'm curious to see how it ends. She has admitted that she prefers hip-hop to ballet because she doesn't have to hold in her core. Hard stuff when you're 8 years old! :)