(Little Woman happily showing off her new pink ballerina outfit and her freshly painted pink toes.)JUST when I thought I was going to have to say good bye to the ballerina presence in our home, both my daughters love for this art reemerged. No, we don’t have them in lessons or have any grand ideas of them becoming prima ballerinas… of course they will always be OUR prima ballerinas and that is enough… But there was a time when other little girls where into dolls about snobbery and young singers with no real life experience and I had sighed with great relief that my girls enjoyed ballerinas. It seems such a beautifully feminine play time pass time for a little girl.
We watched ‘Angelina Ballerina’ together, ’12 Dancing Princesses’ got all 3 of us up and fluttering about. I decorated their room with paintings of beautiful dancers… and then Big Girl appeared to grow out of this stage right around the time she grew out of her adorable dancing outfit that had been give to her by her Grams. With no enthusiastic example, Little Woman’s interest petered out and I only got her to dress up and try it out now and then.
A year or two went by and I brought out the ballerina cartoons again just because they had been away long enough to be new again… and the icing on the cake was when I bought Little Woman a new dancing out fit that had sparkles on it and matching leggings. Well Big Girl had to teach her everything she knew, after all she had been an expert in her youth! Before I knew it they where practicing routines together, wearing their dancing outfits through out the day and asking me to film their performances in the ‘FEHR FINE ARTS THEATER’ (a.k.a. the family room). I went out and got Little Woman’s closest in age cousin a matching dance outfit and now the return of the ballerina is a guaranteed success. I hope they always dance.
TTFN
