Ballet and Basketball

I've been asked frequently if I was going to sign Maggie up for ballet class, but had previously felt it just wasn't the right time. She has been in love with ballet since seeing that first Nutcracker performance, and ballet has consumed her play for much of the last two years. I let her love of ballet live in her play, in the books we read, in annual trips to the Nutcracker Ballet, and of course within her birthday celebration. It was just recently that I realized it felt like the right time to expand on this interest of hers by taking a class.

So far she is really enjoying "ballet school," as she calls it, and it worked out for both her and her friend Cora to take the class together. Her teacher is even the mother of a boy in her kindergarten class (which just happens in a small town I guess!) 

It's difficult to snap good pictures, but be sure, I'll keep trying!

And during ballet, someone else is on the basketball court working on his b-ball skills....