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| Leyla http://kccreativedesign.com/p666876526 |
Dance team tryouts for 2012/2013 have come and gone and the results
from the audition were posted the Thursday before Labor Day holiday
weekend. This year Leah, my middle
child who recently turned seven, decided to try out for dance team. My youngest, Alexandra is two years old,
didn’t want to miss out on all the action so she turned in her diapers for a
leotard and a pair of tights!! Alexandra is having a blast every Saturday
morning in a one hour combo ballet/tap class with Heather. Who needs a vacation home, when you have
three daughters whose home away from home is in the dance studio? =)
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| Alexandra |
I spent most of the
summer focusing on our Photography and Videography Company; KC Creative
Design.
The girls and I agreed that
spending the summer focusing on dance technique, by taking more ballet classes,
would be a good start to the new 2012/2013 dance season. We found a nearby dance studio just 5 minutes
away from the house in Civano. We enjoyed meeting new people and working
with the friendly professional staff at Ballet Rincon Academy of Dance. The girls also took gymnastics once a week so
they could work on getting some tricks.
The summer flew by and before we knew it we were back home at Dance
Force One ready to start the new dance season. Fall classes started at the beginning of August;
two weeks before dance team auditions. In
past years auditions were held at the end of the year after the recital. Dance Force One picked up some amazing new
dance teachers and most of the talented teachers returned back to the studio. The first weeks flew by and then we were
getting ready for the Saturday team try outs.
Dancers started checking in between 7:00 and 730 A.M. Leyla had her
childhood best friend, Ysa, spend the night.
Ysa was a big support for Leyla and for the entire family. She is an amazing
person and is such a big help when it comes to dance team competitions and
pretty much anything else in our life. We had the girls go to bed early so that
they would be well rested. Mommy cheerleader woke them up early to prepare
for the day. Charlie and I wanted to
make sure the kids had enough strength to make it through the auditions so Charlie
made eggs and I cut up some fresh fruit.
After breakfast the girls got dressed and spent at least 20 minutes
stretching before we all piled in the car and made the trek to the dance studio. This year the kids had to wear a leotard and
tights, and have their hair pulled back in a bun. All dancers had to have their right and left splits
to make most of dances on dance team. The
ability to do both splits can make the difference between making the team or
not. This year the dancers were
auditioning for individual dances, as compared to last year when the dancers tried
out for a particular dance team. This year the instructors were able to choose
who they wanted to perform in each of their dances vs. having one group of
girls stay together for almost all their dances.
At the audition each
child that registered was given a number which they displayed where the judges could
identify the dancer and score them based on whatever they were looking for.
This year I had two kids to be nervous for and when I found out Leah was trying
out in the same room as her older sister I just about fainted. All 7-11 years old tried out together; which
I thought was crazy!! Leah is so little and
just turned 7 where as Leyla is a young lady who is tuning 12 next month. The difference
in maturity and skill level is night and day. I thought for sure that Leah was going to back
out and not try out. Heck, I would back
out if I was her age!! Parents were not
allowed to watch so Ysa and I hung out together in the hallway and tried to
peek through the cracks in the taped up windows…too bad April did a really
good job this year and we couldn’t even see a shadow. Leah stayed the whole time and even took her first
1.5 hr ballet class with Cory, who is an amazing dancer, and a fantastic but
very stern, teacher. My poor baby is used
to taking three hours of dance classes a week and was now auditioning with the older
girls and dancing over three hour in one day! Leyla, on the other hand, was
having the time of her life and ended up staying until 3:00pm. By the end of the day I was exhausted, which
is ironic considering I wasn’t the one dancing.
Ha Ha. The older girls were so nice to Leah that I will be forever
thankful to them all!! Later that
evening when little Leah got out of the car she said she could hardly feel her
legs. Leyla and I look at each other
and started laughing. I thought to
myself “I hope she makes dance team or she will be devastated.”
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| Leah |
Two weeks passed before the list was posted and every day Leah
asked if she had made dance team. I was
starting to feel like we were never going to find out.
It was late Thursday evening before the list was posted and luckily
for me I didn’t have to drive 40 minutes to the dance studio to find out :=) One of the other dance moms took a picture of
the list with her phone and sent it to me. The girls waited anxiously as the list downloaded
to my phone. We waited and waited and waited….
what the hell was wrong with my phone???
You have got to be kidding me!!!! As soon as we all had given up hope and were
off to bed my phone beeped and the download was completed with the dance team
list.
It probably would have been faster to drive the 40 min to the dance studio. The only problem was that for some reason the pictures came through as a video so I was not able to enlarge the screen which meant that the list was too little to read. I forwarded the text to Charlie’s phone and he had the same problem so he emailed it to our email address and printed it out. I practically had to use a magnifying glass the make out everything. Between me and Charlie we were able to see that Leah made four dance numbers on dance team with the younger girls. Leah was so excited and was very proud of her self. I tucked Leah in bed while Charlie continued to look at the list for Leyla. When I returned to the room Charlie said he didn’t see Leyla name on the list. What?? Give me that list I said as I snapped the paper out of his hand, and I thought I was blind!! Leyla’s name was right under Leah’s name and she made 8 dance team numbers! Her worried face turned into a big smiled and she was very happy!! Before I could say another word Leyla had fallen asleep with a smile a mile wide on her face and was probably dreaming of the lights, action, Show Time!
It probably would have been faster to drive the 40 min to the dance studio. The only problem was that for some reason the pictures came through as a video so I was not able to enlarge the screen which meant that the list was too little to read. I forwarded the text to Charlie’s phone and he had the same problem so he emailed it to our email address and printed it out. I practically had to use a magnifying glass the make out everything. Between me and Charlie we were able to see that Leah made four dance numbers on dance team with the younger girls. Leah was so excited and was very proud of her self. I tucked Leah in bed while Charlie continued to look at the list for Leyla. When I returned to the room Charlie said he didn’t see Leyla name on the list. What?? Give me that list I said as I snapped the paper out of his hand, and I thought I was blind!! Leyla’s name was right under Leah’s name and she made 8 dance team numbers! Her worried face turned into a big smiled and she was very happy!! Before I could say another word Leyla had fallen asleep with a smile a mile wide on her face and was probably dreaming of the lights, action, Show Time!
