June 9, 2018
Saydee had her very first dance recital on Saturday evening. She had a ton of fun with her ballet/tap combo class this year and enjoyed every bit of it! Little Miss Saydee is our free spirit daughter full of imagination and pure blissful childhood joys. She could not wait to dance on the stage, the morning of her recital she said "mom, I am just so excited!" She did a great job, her class was the youngest of the pre-classes so they just went up on stage and did their own thing, it was priceless. The sweetest thing, I love this age!
For the dress rehearsal the day before the performance, Ellie had done Saydee's make-up with foundation, blush, eye shadow, lip stick, liner and mascara. The dance studio required all out make-up for all ages since the performers will look washed out on stage with out it with all of the spotlights and such since it's such a a big auditorium arts center with all of the seating. So for the dress rehearsal, it's a closed performance so you check your performer in before their dances and check them out after- well when we went to pick Saydee up, her right eye was all red and swollen...it was SO SAD looking. We weren't sure at first if she had been crying, got hit in the eye or what? Shortly after, we realized she was as happy as ever and that she had itched her eye so bad from an allergic reaction it was unrecognizable! It took a long while for the swelling to go down, even into the next evening when it came real performance time, her poor little eye was still blood shot and swollen red. With a bit of foundation and cover up under her eye it looked a ton better only for the recital, we completely stayed clear of any eye liner and mascara and just settled for blush and lip stick to glam our little performer up with, no more eye reactions this time...
And to make her evening even better...flowers from daddy for a job well done!
On the way to the recital at the performing arts center at Auburn HS, it was a bit of a drive from our home (45 min) so we did our best to keep Saydee's attention to preoccupy her from falling asleep...it wasn't an easy task. (Saydee doesn't nap much any more but if she doesn't get a nap and drives in the car, it doesn't take long and her eyes start to roll back into her head and she is out sawing logs zzzzz and if you wake this baby bear up before her full nap, the future mama grizzly bear comes out. (Not a very pleasant thing.) Not wanting that to happen, we managed to keep her awake and she was a happy dancer for her recital but on the way back home the minute she hit her car seat and the car started, she was out...good night Saydee! It was only like 7:30 pm but it must have been such a long day, she actually slept through the entire night. (Fully expected her to wake from her nap at 1 am and think it was party time.) She woke up Sunday morning to her flowers in a vase next to her bed and in great spirits ready to tell us all about her recital! We sure love this little gal.
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