Ballerina Paige

The last couple of days we've spent mostly at Paige's rehearsals.
The recital was tonight. SO cute.
Paige and Lily are in different classes, which was actually nice, because then we could actually see our own kid AND our niece dance. Because how can you tear your eyes away from your own baby dancing on stage.

Between dances, the lights on stage would be turned off while the dancers got into position. When Paige and her class walked on, it was all quiet and dark, and Cason loudly said "I can see Paige in the dark!" It was cute.

Paige had her little shy face on, but did such a good job, and looked so pretty. My eyes started to water, but I didn't want my mom to make fun of me so I was keeping my head turned more toward Jess on my other side. Haha. We're so lame. I used to be able to will the tears away when I thought I was going to cry, but I have way less control since having kids. I cry pretty easily now.

It's so cool to see your baby doing something like that. I felt so proud and happy. You really do want to tell everybody "That's my kid!" Haha.

I went backstage to get her and she came running up and attacked me. We'd gotten her flowers, but I left them with Jess out front, so I wouldn't have so much to carry. She saw all the other girls getting flowers and stuffed animals, and asked me why the other girls "won". Haha, so cute and sad. So thankfully Connie had cash on her so we could buy a stuffed ballerina bunny last minute and make Paige's night. Here's a blurry picture of how happy it made her.
She also had 3 bouquets of flowers and was SO happy. She always gets excited when Jess brings home flowers for me, and he'll give her a couple of them. But these ones were ALL for her, and she was very excited.
I got like 3 pictures for some reason. I guess she snuck out some makeup while they waited backstage and put on some more, so her left cheek got some extra pink. I'm not surprised, I caught her putting stuff on in the bathroom before we left and she said "I'm just putting on a little extra, so it will look even prettier." :)

When we got home she changed into pajamas, had me wash off her makeup (which makes me feel like a weirdo by the way, putting makeup on my four year old), and took down her hair. Then she ran around all hyper and pumped up. She goes "I was SOOOOOO happy because of the flowers." Then she told me "I was soooooo embarrassed because of all the flowers. I'm blushed." Haha.
My little brother Matt had his graduation from chiropractic school today too. Sorry we couldn't be there Matt, but we're proud of you and we love you.

Thanks to all our family and friends who could come watch Paige tonight, and for the rest of you, there was no video or flash photography allowed, but you bet your biscuit I ordered the dvd.