Maybe Next Year

Okay, this is the last of Hannah's recital update and pictures (I promise). Basically, the evening was a bust. So, let me set the stage (ha, no pun intended). We are backstage waiting for the program to begin and Hannah is having so much fun. The lights go down and the musics starts and she get's this amazed and excited look on her face. Then for 15 mins she plays with her friends and does her dance routine 2 times backstage, so I am thinking I can go out in the audience and watch with Chris. So, I leave and wait for her number. Her number is up. It is dark and the some of the little girls are being carried on stage and some are walking and the lights go on and there is little Hannah just crying, bawling. She was so sad and tears were coming down her face (along with the three girls next to her). So, I run backstage and try to get her attention to save the last 30 secs of the dance. But no luck. The music ends and she sees me and runs off the stage before the lights go off and just starts bawling in my arms. It was so sad. So, her big debut as a dancer was her crying for 1 min on stage with lights and a big screen tv showing it all. Luckily, I was able to tape her rehearsal performance, so she will see that as she gets older and not the crying version.

But after the show, we gave her flowers and that made up for everything. She loved her flowers. She had been talking about them all day and now they were hers. She looked so cute carrying them all around. Next year I will have to use them as a bribe :-)