Eli's Recital

Last Monday, May 10, Eli performed in his first dance recital. As you probably know, he's been in a Mother's Morning Out program once a week where he does ballet, tap, and gymnastics. The recital was with his ballet class. He loves it! Eli and his friend Mia do the MMO together, which is another reason he loves it. She is the one you see in the pictures, and she is to the right of him in the video. I'm sure this will be blackmail material later, but for now, it's so stinkin' cute!

Here's the big dance! At the end you can hear John yell "shake & bake!". This was code for, "go Eli!" because Eli didn't want us to yell his name. He thought Shake & Bake would be much funnier and less embarrassing, I guess.


After the recital, several of the little girls in his class got flowers. When Eli saw this, he also wanted flowers and got upset. You can see this in the picture of him next to Mia with her big vase of flowers. John tried to remedy the situation by giving him 60 cents from his pocket, but that didn't last long...wasn't quite the same. The fact that the girls kept coming up to Eli and saying, "Look at my pretty flowers!", didn't help either. Once they realized that he was sad, a couple of his friends gave his some flowers for him to keep. Problem solved! Although, he doesn't look to happy in the picture I took of him with his two flowers, he really was...he was just sick of me taking pictures!



































































Jed also had fun at the recital, as you can see here! I captured this moment of Jed kissing Mia's little sister, Eleanor, goodbye. Priceless!














Here's another great picture that was captured by Mia's GG. She wanted to get a picture of Eli's blue eyes, but got him picking his nose instead!



















Afterwards, we walked across the street to the frozen custard shop and had some yummy treats. Memories were made, and it was a fun night all around!