Here Comes The Sun
Posted By Kristabella on June 14, 2009
This past Saturday my favorite niece Skyler had her first ballet recital. It was as adorable as you can imagine, watching a bunch of wee little girls dance around on stage.
Skyler is actually one of the youngest in her class. The class is for three year olds, but the cut off was September 1. And Skyler’s birthday is in October. But after taking another session of her dance class from last fall, which is just called Creative Movement because it is for little ones, the teacher said Skyler was good to move up to the real class. The class with a recital, where all of us could come watch her perform and she would have a costume!
So since she is 3 1/2, she’s been practicing this routine once a week for the last nine months. Understandably, she started to hate ballet. Probably because she was tired of hearing the same damn song over and over and over. So to get my stubborn niece to actually participate in the recital and be a good girl, cake was promised. (One of the many ways we’re similar, Skyler and I, is our love of cake.) But when they went to the high school auditorium for dress rehearsal earlier in the week and Skyler saw the big stage, she was ready to perform. She was ready to show the world her mad ballet skillz!
It was literally the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. The show was comprised of eight different dance classes, including Skyler’s. They were all the younger kids, most of them Skyler’s age or just a year or two older. Just watching all the cuteness made my uterus ache. But none were cuter than our girl.
They danced to Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles. Skyler was very serious and very focused while she danced. And was singing most of the words to the song.
Afterwards she got some flowers and we gushed all over her at how cute she was and how well she performed! Our prima ballerina. She was all smiles and loved the flowers.
And of course, I was the proudest Auntie in the entire auditorium!
You can see the rest of the photos here. The ones at the actual recital are crappy because we couldn’t use the flash and we weren’t super close.
Here is the video, if anyone wants to watch. It’s only about 3 minutes and you will get a toothache from the cuteness. Or maybe you won’t because you’re not related to her.
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Totally adorable. I love the little suns they hold!
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So. Darn. Cute.
And I have to say, your niece appears to take after your side of the family.
I love the little ballerina outfit – too cute. She is a sweetie pie!
Superstar!
So, so, so cute!
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you, my friend, are a VERY good aunt.
but, i guess it’s easy…because she’s so darn cute!
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She is so cute. I loved watching the video. Between the do and outfit…ADORABLE!
I can see why it can make your uterus scream out…but you should have gone to the ribfest yesterday…It seriously would have done the opposite.
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It is disappointing to me that I took dance for YEARS and never received any sort of dance medal like Skylar has.
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So cute! I love how, after 9 months of rehearsal, they’re still watching the teacher. And they love the jumping part! And when they all have little suns and hold them in different hands … so funny. Skylar is gorgeous!
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Too cute.
My dad was talking about my ballet recital the other day, he still remembers my tap routine. This is about 26 years ago and he remembers it to the day!
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Our niece takes ballet and her second recital, the first one to count according to her, was this month and we had promised to go before I knew I was pregnant. At this point the doctor doesn’t want me flying anywhere so we had to cancel and I felt like the worst Aunt in the history of Aunts. In other words, you kick my ass at Aunt-dom.
it for sure is pretty darn adorable.
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You’re not even biased, she seriously IS the cutest thing ever!
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holy crap dude, she really IS the cutest thing ever. that blonde hair? the uterus, it hurts.
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Yep, definite toothache. From the niece-sweetness AND the jelly beans I’m inhaling that my dad gave to me in a recycled prescription bottle that says “For alleviation of nervousness induced by the process of purchasing one’s first home.”
Haha, awwwwww. Now this alone would be enough for me to have kids: You can’t really go to dance recitals and the like without having one in it (or a niece or whatnot) without being labeled a pedophile, right?
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I love little girls dressed up for their dance recitals. My little one has her recital Sat.
Owie; my tooth! Now you have to share your dentist’s name. Oh, wait; maybe not She is utterly edible. Seriously would mop up after all those fake-oh kidlets on Toddlers and Tiaras. I love how each kid has their own rhythm and timing. Absolutely cutely and thanks for sharing. p.s. So is your hair!
OK…I only have boys. And now you are making me want a girl….dammit!!!! I’m 41 and the shop is closed. man!!!! She is adorable!!
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gah! the cuteness!! for some reason my sister didn’t put my niece in ballet or tumbling or anything cute and girly…instead she’s taken after her brothers and is playing soccer and basketball. she’s still cute as a button, but i was so excited to have a NIECE so i could see her in tutu’s!! *sigh*
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I kind of want to kidnap Skyler and make her my fourth child. SHE IS SO CUTE.
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Oh my gosh – I watched all 2:51 of that video. It made my day and I needed that so much. Thank you for sharing! She is adorable!
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