Today was "Watch Your Child Dance Day" at Ashlynn's dance class. I was very impressed with what the kids had learned. Ashlynn did a great job. She is really quite coordinated, unlike her mother :). It was really fun watching them do their little routines. They also got to demonstrate a lot of things that they learned one at a time. Ashlynn is normally shy and afraid of doing stuff in front of people, but to my surprise she did not even hesitate today. She was really confident and did awesome! I think this has been a great thing for her to be involved in. Her teacher, Stephanie Baker, does a wonderful job with these kids. My favorite part of the whole thing was when Ashlynn had to demonstrate her skipping. I had to laugh, because of how she learned to skip. One day she came home from dance and said that she was suppose to work on learning how to skip. So, we were standing in the kitchen and I started showing her how to do it. Step, hop, step, hop, step, hop...... She wasn't really catching on. Before I knew it, Dustin came in and started trying to show her too, then all of the sudden he started skipping around the circle in our house. In our house, you can go around in a circle through the kitchen , through the living room, through one door of the bathroom and out the other door of the bathroom, and back to the kitchen... anyways you get the picture... it's like running around in a big circle. Then one by one the kids started following him.....all of them singing some made up song while they went around and around. After I stopped laughing at my husband as he skipped around singing, I decided that it looked like fun and joined in. If anyone would have walked in our house at that moment , they probably would have thought that we were a little on the odd side. It was actually pretty hillarious. In the end, Dillon and Ashlynn both learned how to skip, and Samantha did a pretty good job for a three year old. So, needless to say, when Miss Stephanie asked Ashlynn to demonstrate her skipping, I couldn't help but laugh.
