magnificent charles is watching the opening of the olympiads on television and i am sneaking off during the chinese opera to update. they are doing a great job. i feel sorry for vancouver and other host countries to come…who has the money to splash out on ceremonies like this?
i have given in to the begging and pleading…and i have signed carys and sela up for ballet classes. the cost is exorbitant and the uniform is more than their school uniform, but i wish you could have seen their reactions when i told them i had signed them up for classes. i was told how much i was loved, how happy they were and then sela said in a demanding voice, WHEN CAN I GO? WHEN CAN THE TRIPLETS GO?
oh did i mention that jasper is going as well? charles is not thrilled, but if jasper doesn't like it, he can drop out.
now the trouble of the girls hair. the teacher insists that hair is pulled back into a bun, but neither carys or sela HAVE enough hair to constitue a bun. i can barely get a bunch for sela! in a serious conversation, while she was dancing and piroetting and crashing, i told her we would need to put bobbie pins in her hair. if possible, her grin split even wider and she exclaimed,
CARYS, DID YOU HEAR THAT? BARBIE PINS IN OUR HAIR!!!
happy happy days.
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Barbie pins!!!! (even Jasper?)
Ahhh, the joys of hair gel… You will definately have to post a picture of them in their dance outfits.
I am not sure that it gets any more cute than that!!!! Keighley took ballet a few years ago…. it was at the YMCA…probably a lot cheper than in HK..but she too LOVED it….she still puts her tutu on and leotard!!! They will love it…what was that movie with the boy ballet guy Billy something??? Charles can take encourgement from that right?? Love ya Lyns
Incroyable! Pas de deux ou, peut-etre, pas de trois?
Love to all…..Dad
My daughter is about the start her fifth year of ballet. She LIVES for it. Well…that and hockey. She is quite well rounded! Our ballerina hockey player.
Too bad it costs so much there. Here it is only $30/mo for an hour a week and the leotard/shoes etc total about $50 per year. This is just for one child, so I know it will add up with more than one. My daughter wanted her brother to join with her as well and he seemed tempted at the time (she was 3 he had just turned 4) and I forget why we never followed through with that. My husband most likely! SILLY MEN! It isn’t going to hurt anything!
Can’t wait for pics.
Wilder loved ballet for a year, then decided it was too girly (but secretly wishes he could still dance, I think).
Dance shops sell these zig-zaggy headbands designed to pull back all the hair and hold it into place, when it’s too short for a bun. Maybe a quicker option than ten million bobby pins….