2 Little Chiefs: Celebrate! Tumbling Recital

Monday, May 7, 2012

Celebrate! Tumbling Recital

Elizabeth has been taking tumbling since the fall and in the spring they do a recital. It was held in the performing arts theater of our local community center. I am not really sure that she understood that she was going to be on stage until the night of dress rehearsal! Dress rehearsal was the typical chaos one would expect when trying to keep 16 classes of kids organized. Luckily, Elizabeth's class was first so this worked well for a short dress rehearsal. We showed up, they ran through their routine and then had pictures. Having pictures on dress rehearsal night instead of the evening of the performance was nice.

Pre-Show picture...maybe a little nervous or maybe that was just me!

Her class was 8, three and four year old girls. The skills they have been working on are things like, front rolls, back rolls, cart-wheels, bridge-ups, rock and roll stand-ups, front roll and get up without using hands and following directions and using good listening skills!! Elizabeth wins the award for being calm and well behaved. However, in class she often would be gawking at what the other girls were doing instead of doing the moves! She gets her people watching skills naturally! I couldn't wait to see how she did at the recital and my stomach had butterflies for her!

The routine was called "Wedding" and was set to the music of "Going to the Chapel" and because that song wasn't long enough, also a Glee song "Think I Wanna Marry You." Their names were stuck on the stage and they walked out in their sparkling white dresses carrying hot pink bouquets to their spot. They did a front roll and a few swoops with their flowers and then they made an aisle that each girl walked down one at a time, did a twirl and then a cart-wheel. Elizabeth was the first one down the aisle and she remembered to twirl and did her cart-wheel. When it was all done they threw the bouquets and skipped off the stage...except Elizabeth who very calming walked off, looking at the audience the whole time! I guess she was savoring the moment!

When their routine was done the plan was for the girls to be taken back to the balcony to watch the rest of the performances. I don't really know what happened for the next hour and half. When the last act was over I turned and looked to the balcony and it was empty. I proceeded to the pick-up room where I found Elizabeth holding some other little girl's hand. I have no clue who this girl was. When I asked Elizabeth she told me that the little girl's daddy was still at work....um, ok. I asked if she watched the other tumblers and she said yes, yet she couldn't remember anything about them! I asked if she needed to go the bathroom before we left and she said, "Harmony took me." Harmony was one of her classmates! At this point I decided not to think anymore about what kind of supervision was going on during the rest of the show and was just glad that I had collected my daughter!

We came back to the house for dessert with the grandparents and Aunt Sandy. I am very thankful for my friend who watched Grant for us, as I don't think he would have enjoyed an hour and half of tumbling!