The First Dance Recital (sans pictures)

My sweet little pip-squeak had her first dance recital this week. She was ADORABLE and totally the best dancer (what?) out there. The morning of, I got up and charged the video camera because the battery drains so quickly. I so thought I had it all together. Now six o'clock is fast approaching: I grab the video camera, and pick up my little Nikon. But alas, the battery in my point and shoot is dead! What do I do? We filmed the whole thing but no pics for the blog or the scrapbook. Sigh. You'll have to take my word for it, she was to DIE for! But, sadly, it takes way to many man hours to convert our video to a blogger-approved format. At least that's what Jon says. I don't know anything about it aside from the fact that our video editing program bites. So, here I am telling you I have adorable footage of my sweet baby, who is growing up entirely too quickly for my liking, prancing around in her first-ever dance recital. Remembering all her little steps and shuffle-kicks and keeping her little smile on the entire time. She even remembered her "pose" at the end. I couldn't stop smiling. And my little guy clapped and cheered at the end for her, just as a great big brother should...and I didn't even coach him to do it. I couldn't have been prouder. A big THANK YOU to our Papa George, Grandma Debbie, and Great-Grandma Lewis who all came for the show. We have plenty of camera phone pictures, but let's face it, they suck so I'll let you close your eyes and imagine the innocence and sweetness that envelopes my almost-always angel. Well at least 85% of the time she has a 77% chance of being mostly angelic. And that's a fact.