Ella's dance class

For the last month Ella has been taking a weekly dance class.  It is a combination class of ballet, tap, and acrobatics.  It has been an interesting experience to say the least!  The dance studio has a kind of cruel and unusual type of punishment in that the 2 year olds have to go into class alone and the Mom's can only look in on the class through slats in the blinds of a rather small window.  Not sure who it's harder on, the kids or the Moms!  In our case though I think it was hardest on Ella, she DID NOT want to go in there alone the first couple classes so I had to go in and hold her hand throughout the lesson.  The 3rd class we tricked her and had Grandma take her and push her into class.  She did really well until she had to come out to change shoes and then got upset going back in.  The last class went much better and she went in alone and participated well...that is until she noticed the small window and me peeking in!  Fortunately that wasn't until the last few minutes of class.  All in all I think it was a good experience for her but I think her dance career will have to wait....she is only 2 afterall!  I'm just so excited to have her involved in her own activity.  It seems there is just so much offerings for Jacob but not a lot for her.  She seemed to really enjoy the acrobatics portion of class so we may look into a gymnastics class for her this fall.  Here's a sampling of the pictures I managed to get through the slats in the blinds.