Ballet School

Janelle finally got to go to Ballet Class today at one of the Fairfax County Rec Centers.  She's been watching Angelina Ballerina at least once a day.  It has completely surpassed Barney Goes to the Firehouse as her most frequent request.  She has probably watched the video here (this is only one little clip of 40+ minutes) at least a dozen times in a row now.  NetFlix is worth the money for us.  Grandma Greenleaf bought her a little ballet outfit last month and she's been talking about "ballet school" almost every day since then.

So the day finally arrived.  Class was actually only four little girls and one instructor in an activity room at Cub Run Rec Center, but you don't expect much for the price we paid.  She tried to show them how to stretch and some basic little ballet moves.  Again, you don't expect three year olds to be Prima Ballerinas.  Two little girls were really doing what the teacher was telling them, doing the stretches, pointing their toes, all that stuff, and two little girls just kinda did what they wanted to do.  I'll let you guess which group Janelle fell into.  I guess its something relatively inexpensive to do, and if she gains a little coordination and grace, or if she even starts following instructions a little better, that's a win.

Here's a few pictures of the first day in class.  Admittedly, they aren't too good because Jeni was several feet away from most of them with her little pocket camera and I also cropped them down, so nobody else is identifiable.