The Nutcracker Ballet

I love this picture as she looks SO dramatic! lol! Bella took a ballet class this fall and the end goal was a part in the annual Nutcracker ballet! She was SO so SO so excited and she absolutely loved EVERY performance...all 60 seconds of them! :) It was a super small part, but so adorable! They got to be the little dolls and it was chaos and wrong moves all over the place but she did great! A few times she even led the others! She is a true performer. She didn't get nervous one bit, and she was ecstatic to be able to wear a ton of makeup and get her hair done up for each performance.
In the end it seemed to be a lot of work for mom, to have to do all three performances in a 26 hour period. And we pretty much had to pay for everything. We had to pay to get her into the class, pay to get her into the recital, pay to rent the costume, and pay to come watch! Awesome! Needless to say we have discontinued dance class and will begin a nice tumbling class until we can find a more up front studio to put her back into dance. I hate hidden fees. Oh and my favorite was that Decembers' tuition was required to perform and then they CANCELLED all the december classes! Awesome...