Clair the tiny Dancer!

Today we went to our realtors office to go and see Santa and to take part in holiday cheer etc. Anyway, we get there and Kate and Clair both totally freak out and won't even go in the room where Santa is! So, I am pretty ticked...we did drive like 25 minutes, in the cold and rain, plus I curled their hair and dressed them in their holiday shirts, and I had my camera...and, and, and. So, I am pretty ticked.

Then a lady says, "the dance show is starting upstairs if you would like to go and watch." So, of course the girls are ready to do anything to get as far away from the bearded freak...or as most normal people call him, Santa...they start begging...pleading to go see the dancers. So we go up stairs and they have everyone crammed in this way too small room and let the kids sit up against the wall around the floor space where the girls will be dancing.

The girls were 7 to 16 years old and Clair was totally lovin it! After the first dance she started clapping and then started yelling, "Hurray! Hurray!" Everyone laughed. Then she did the same thing after the second number. She also was trying to move her hands like the dancers and watched them real close. After the second number they had a pause so the dancers could change costumes. They lady said during the pause they'd put on some music and just let Kate and Clair do a dance since they were so into it. So Kate and Clair totally got up and were ready to show everyone their best dance moves...but I motioned for them to sit back down. The lady said "I was serious, they can dance." I said, "You won't ever be able to get them to sit down again...they will think they need to be up with the dancers!" Luckily, the girls came back in about that time. Clair cheered loudly at the end of each dance. Then they did a tap number. Clair started hitting her feet on the floor...I guess you could call it tapping while seated on your rear or rump-tapping! By this point all the ladies around us are going crazy over her. "She is such a doll." "Oh look how cute!"

Before the last number, the lady running the thing says, "And we have some info up here about our studio if anyone is interested, and I definitely want to see this little girls mommy (pointing to Clair) because we start them as early as 2 and a half. How old is she?" I said, "Well, she is too young then, she just turned two!" So, that is the story of how Clair stole the show...Clair the tiny dancer!