Saturday brought us Cady's very first official dance recital, the Spring Showcase 2007. Cady was able to perform in several different dances. *proud parent bragging moment* Note that Cady looks much younger than the other girls in her group. Well, Cady is the youngest, and was the only girl in her age group asked to perform in the event with the girls from the next class up. Certainly she needs work, but she is young to be pressing details, and I only care that she truly loved the dance.

Sadly, as you will see (or have seen) on the video that during her second performance, her headband went down, and her OCD kicked in as any 2 year old girl can, and she missed out on a larger part of her favorite of the dances, but she loved it, and showed a lot of promise for future dances.

We're very proud, and I think you will enjoy the video.

She definitely likes to dance. This past weekend we had a chance to see just how much she has learned in her dance classes at school. This particular performance offered a lot of distractions not terribly conducive to a 2 year old's attention span, but it was still a great opportunity to see that she can definitely follow direction. She had an absolutely wonderful time, and talked about dancing all day long, both before and after her performance.

We have an upcoming official performance at the local community college, on stage and in full. I'm really anxious to get that on film.

In this video clip, the first session is the "back stage" practice before the performance. It's not in this video, but Cady went right in line with the older "blue" girls, and started performing with them. Karen had to tell her to wait for the other pink girls. She didn't know the blue girls routine, but she was right in there like a star.

During the first clip, she's on the viewers left/center, and performing most of the moves with accuracy. Well, like I said, most of them anyway. Then she moves to the far right side. - Her own choreographed move.

While we were waiting for her troop to perform, (in the middle clip) she just had to keep practicing while with Karen. We got a big giggle out of that.

When she actually performed the debut dance, outside, (the final and third clip), Cady was on the opposite end, to our far right of the video picture. It's sometimes difficult to tell her apart from her good friend Isabella, but Cady has her hair up and isabella doesn't. It's difficult to see her at times over on the right corner, but we're so proud of our tiny dancer. She's the youngest one there, and at least 6 months younger than the next youngest in the troop (Isabella).

And now for your viewing pleasure (and a chance to show off a fun little video app), our star..