It's Official..............I'm a "Dance Mom"!

Things were a little hairy this morning when we woke up, I had no idea how Delaney would go from this.........

to this!

  

So I "made an appointment" to take Delaney to her Beeson cousins' house so the girls could do her hair! Surely, between the girls over there, they could do something!!!  I am HORRIBLE at doing hair! I am lucky to just stick a bow in her hair to pull her unruly bangs out of her eyes!  So I know a lot of you are waiting to see pictures of Delaney at dance and I would have been happy to have taken some BUT I WASN'T ALLOWED IN THERE WITH HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It all happened so fast so I'll try to lay it all out for you!  I was determined we were NOT going to be late (something I struggle with with a two year old around).  It was sooo crowded at the dance studio they decided to open up another time slot on Thursdays so we will be going a little earlier.  The moms got to go into the actual studio for a total of 2.2 seconds and then it was like letting our little cubs go off into the woods, dropping our 2 year olds off at Harvard, you pick...IT WAS AWFUL (for me of course).  The instructor said that at each class the kids will go to their chairs so she can take attendance (well thank goodness Delaney knows her name!) and then they will sing their ABC's and Itsy Bitsy Spider (well thank goodness Delaney knows both!).  She also said Delaney will need a notebook so they can write down the stuff she needs to work on! WORK ON??? What the heck, they are TWO!! So the instructor said they were going to divide up the class with her assistants and that the kids needed to go with them over to the chairs.  At this point, most moms let go of their child's hand...but NOT THIS MOM! Delaney had long since done that and WAS TWIRLING AROUND LIKE SHE WAS ABOUT TO TEACH THE CLASS!!! So when it was time to go off WITH A TOTAL STRANGER she was all over that!!!  I watched her little feet in her her ballet shoes walk across the room and she never looked back!  A half hour later, my girl came running out of class holding her papers and a sucker! BACK IT UP TEACHER I DO NOT LET MY GIRL EAT SUCKERS--they scare me TO DEATH!  I know she must have been pretty active because her clip that holds her bangs back was missing!!!!!  I could not get out of there fast enough it was just all too much for this mom to handle!!  I still think they should have a two way mirror or monitors for the crazy moms like me parents to watch!  Then the receptionist started talking about THEIR RECITAL!  I could not listen to anymore and we left!  (I did let her eat the sucker--from the safety of her high chair of course!)  

And here's Delaney at the end of our night (with her new African American baby doll!) I know, just what we needed, another baby! Delaney is tucked in bed right now with FOUR babies, TWO blankets and TWO pillows (she's decided she likes to sleep with one of mine--which likely contributed to that mess of a hair she woke up with)................

 

So I think it's safe to say, we're going back to dance next week---stay tuned!!