Category Archives: Dance

A little dance recital

We got to go and see Vivi and her big sister’s winter dance recital.
IMG_3065 IMG_3066We got to love on our Monkey Girl for an hour! She happily bounced back and forth between all of our laps.IMG_3072 IMG_3074 IMG_3167These two sisters are so amazingly adorable.IMG_3175

And RJ willingly and happily came and cuddled with me! Poor kid was SO tired.IMG_3180

After the performance we braved the mad house and tried to get a few pictures with the kids.IMG_3184 IMG_3187

RJ’s face looking at Regan cracks me up!IMG_3188 IMG_3189 IMG_3190Six cute kids. Two very tired babies. Picture taking craziness.

So grateful we got to spend some time with this sweet family and snuggle with pieces of our hearts for a bit today. All the love!

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National Dance Day 2015

Every year on National Dance Day we have an extra long dance party. V doesn’t really like to join our dance parties, but R and Monkey girl were jamming out with us.
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You can see V just building her Lego houses in the background.IMG_8715Regan has a super classy underwear situation happening….IMG_8717 IMG_8718 These dancy kids crack me up. R has some sweet toddler moves, and Monkey is great at the baby head bob.

Kaylee’s dance photos 2015

She gets total deer in the head lights look when a stranger is behind the camera asking her to smile. So buying the professional photos that her studio does is not an option. Last years were scary funny and just kinda awkward. I was frustrated last year, but this year expected it and planned on getting some good ones of her at home.

This year didn’t go much better…. SO funny. And she knew. She tried SO hard to relax and just have fun in front of the strange guys camera and just landed in awkward. We both laughed about it. And it was fine because we had a plan.
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The above photo is the day the costumes got handed out. The girls were super excited to try them on. Kaylee was beaming!

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I should have taken a before makeup photo. Poor kiddos allergy shots had left her tomato faced. I did some major stage/performance makeup on her to get her face back to it’s more “normal” look. She was SO worried when she saw her tomato face on photo day that everyone would be staring and that she would look strange.

BUT I am a huge fan of makeup for photos. People (in my family. I’m sure others too.) tend to get super washed out and look not quite like their real life self in pictures. The flash is a frienamy. Makeup is a hero when flash photography needs to happen.

And this kiddo of mine has had years of light makeup done twice a year for family photos and is on year two of stage/performance makeup. Kaylee is awesome at holding still like a statue for makeup application. She’s not a super big fan of performance makeup (who is really?), but she likes how she looks in it for performances, especially when she wakes up tomato faced and can still walk confidently into her dance studio on photos day and give the photographer her best frozen deer in headlight smile. 😉

 

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She was giving me all sorts of awesomeness in the waiting room before getting called in.IMG_6821

And she even had her normal beautiful smile standing in line waiting for her turn. And then BAM! As soon as it’s her turn in front of the camera she freezes up. Because, “Mom, it’s just weird smiling for someone I don’t know.” So she clearly will not ever be a super model. I’m okay with that. 😉IMG_6834But at home with me or her Daddy behind the camera we get all sorts of her little personality shining through each photo we take of her. And it’s all her. She just does pose, pose, pose. We just click away.