Dancing Queen(s)

"You can dance, you can jive/ Having the time of your life/ See that girl, watch that scene/ Digging the dancing queen." - "Dancing Queen" by Abba

I do not like Abba and I do not like disco, but I have a feeling that Riley and Alana would both like this song. Today is dance day, and both girls are very excited to start learning their dances for their spring recital. Seriously, is there anything cuter than a little girl in a leotard/tutu, wearing ballet shoes, with her hair in a bun?

Ugh, the ballet bun! My arch nemesis! It took me literally months to get the hang of putting Alana's hair in a bun, and she hates wearing it as much as I hate making it. She likes a LOW ponytail ("Down here!" she always says, patting the back of her neck), but for dance, her hair has to be high up in a bun. There is no alternative. Alana suffers for her art...

Dance, Dance, Dance

"I gotta dance, dance dance now the beat's really hot/ Dance, dance, dance right there on the spot." - "Dance Dance Dance" by The Beach Boys

This week I am teaching the girls about Asia. With each continent, I have the girls pick a country that they would like to focus on, and Alana picked India for this week, which is great because it's a country I can work with. For South America she picked Uruguay, which was next to impossible to find information on that was suitable for a three-year-old. What? Most American three-year-olds have never heard of Uruguay? Huh!

Anyway, I have been showing the girls You Tube clips of Bollywood dancing, courtesy of the talented contestants on "So You Think You Can Dance". They LOVED the routines! They both immediately jumped up and started "dancing Bollywood", which was more entertaining than I can even put into words. Alana incorporated her gymnastics into the dance, and Riley stomped her feet and waved her arms with all her might, trying to keep up with the "computer dancers", as Alana called them. I really do have a great job, don't I?