Dance class

Sometime during our stay in New Mexico, Penny became obsessed with ballet class, or "baolay class" as she says. It could have been that I was always heading off to Zumba class or some other dance class while we were there. It could have been that my mom mentioned in passing that I used to take ballet class when I was little. Whatever it was, we now have an aspiring ballerina on our hands.
So when we got to Virginia, I briefly looked into ballet classes. But since we don't have a car, our options are obviously very limited. I'm trying to jump right into life here instead of waiting to "feel settled" (whatever that means), so I decided to start a dance class here in our apartment building.
I got the word out to various kids in our building, but despite my mediocre efforts, I had a class of two this morning.

All dressed and ready to dance!

We didn't bring any physical CDs, and I don't have music working right on my laptop. I brought my iPhone but couldn't get it to work playing through my laptop, which I'd hooked up to the TV so I could use its speakers. But my laptop has three songs on it, which were apparently the demo sample songs that come with the computer when I bought it. So, crisis averted. One song has a great funky beat that the girls LOVED dancing to, and I'll have to definitely use it in future classes, even when I fix my music situation. Then there was a slow jazz song, which sounded just like ballet class music I've danced to in the past. And then there was a slow orchestral song. The girls vetoed my efforts at having them do some slow dancing after all the fast dancing, so we just kept the fast song on repeat and danced our funky dances for about 20 music. After that, we danced like animals and then stretched when the animals were tired and needed to go to sleep.

So it was pretty much the best dance class ever. My students were, hands down, the cutest girls in the world. They were happy, I was happy, we all danced a lot, and I'm chalking it up as a successful dance class.

If anyone in the Arlington is reading this and has a preschooler home during the day, please email me if you think they'd be interested in joining us! I haven't decided on a day yet, so let me know which day(s) would work best. My girls are almost 2 and almost 4. If your child is old enough to keep up with our skipping and dancing, and young enough to not be "too cool," they are welcome to join us! Give me an email at chickenflag at hotmail dot com.

Tadah!!