Hands on Your Hips!

Have I even mentioned that Elly is taking DANCE LESSONS!? It's been going on a few months now and it is so super cute to watch. Elly started out as a statue participant, meaning she watched only and did NOT participate. Now she has upgraded her skills to a selective participant. She takes a while to warm up b/c she is still a super shy girl (getting a little better with age though I have to say)...anyway, it's a tap and ballet class and tap is first so she ends up doing very little of the tap and almost all the ballet. What kills me is that she does ALL the moves at home. We borrowed a copy of the cd they use for class and I do the dances along with Elly to help build her confidence. I don't know who is funnier to watch, her or me. Those of you who know me well, know that I am NO DANCER. Poor Elly is probably not learning anything with me. I didn't even know what a "shuffle step" was! :)

Elly loves her class and her teacher "Miss Mandi" so I keep taking her. She is learning and I see her blossoming little by little and that excites me. She loves to wear her dance shoes and her favorite moves are actually all tap moves. We'll be in the middle of something that has nothing to do with dance and all of a sudden Elly will shout "Hands on your hips! March in place!" and begin to show us. She also loves "knee bounces" and "boogie woogie", ask me to show you sometime :)