Never Grow Up

This afternoon Ava was practicing one of her dance routines in her bedroom. The song is Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift. We got a burned copy of the cut music yesterday so she could get some extra practice in, and so she was twirling away in her room running the routine 4 or 5 times. When she was finished, she went downstairs to play.

Meanwhile, Molly had apparently been watching way more closely than I realized. She went over to the CD player, hit play, and began dancing to Ava's music herself. And not normal little kid-spaztic dancing either. Her movements were very deliberate, graceful and sweet. When the song would end, Molly would simply go back over to the player and hit Play again. She danced on her own for 30 minutes straight, if not more. It's a very dear song and dance when Ava performs it, but bittersweet at times to watch. It was even more so watching my 2-year-old dancing her heart out to a song telling her to Never Grow Up. Maybe don't NEVER grow up, Molly, but slowing down just a tad would be fine.

This is a snippet of her dancing. It's not great and doesn't begin to adequately show the sweetness of the scene, but as usual it was the best I could do. To give you an idea: one of the moves Ava does is putting her head in her hands and pretending to sleep - that is why Molly puts her own head in her hands a few times amid her own choreography