I Lied

Remember in an earlier post when I said I was going to wait to put Taylor into dance class until she turned two?? Yeah, I lied. I was at Drew's gymnastics practice and I was looking over the class schedules and what did I discover?? A parent-tot ballet/tap combo for 18 month-2 year old's! I am well aware that she is ONLY 18 months old and she really doesn't have a concept yet of taking directions, but I couldn't resist and the leotards are SO cute. Anyway, I took her to her first class for free to try it out. We bought her her little leotard and ballet shoes but I couldn't find tap shoes to fit her. Good thing I waited because at her class, the teacher was selling some used pairs for $5. So now Taylor owns her very first pair of tap shoes and they are SO stinking cute!

So far she has been to 2 classes and she's doing okay. The other two girls in her class are a bit older, closer to 3 years old. They take direction a lot better than she does. She just wants to have fun and that's what I let her do. The music comes on and the teacher wants them to point their toes and plea. Taylor pretty much does her own thing. She spins around with her arms up above her head. She looks like a little ballerina in her movements, she just doesn't like to follow direction and I'm okay with that! Afterall, she IS only one. She does better at tap than ballet. Ballet is a little slow for her and she likes to MOVE. She loves the sound that her shoes make when she stomps her feet. Her teacher is so good with the little ones, she has fun ways of making the kids do the movements. She "stomps the bugs" when they are practicing tap. They have a recital coming up in December. They are dancing to "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" and they even have tiny Hippo costumes for them to wear (with giant bows in their hair, of course!)

I know I'm her mom and I'm biased but I really think Taylor's a pretty talented little dancer, for being only 1 year old, girl's got some rhythm!