Picture Day 1

Today kicks off one of the roughest weeks of the year - Picture Week at the dance studio. You may ask, Why on earth would it be rough? It's just dressing up and posing for a few pictures, right? The short answer is, it should be just that. However, when there are three days of heading to the studio (often straight from school) to race into full hair and make-up (which must be perfect of course) and then sit around and wait for your group to go in... it's long and stressful. And that's not even taking into account which pictures to buy!

Anyway, my girls did great. Jocie took her one picture and Ava had two. Molly of course got to come along for the ride. By 6pm, two hours after we had gotten there (not shabby by picture day standards), the girls were whiny and hungry but still in one piece. It is another benchmark of the year, when all of us moms look at each other and wonder what on earth we were smoking when we agreed to all of this but keep smiling and doing what we have to do for our children. One day down, two more to go!

Jocelyn's first ballet bun

Little Miss Sunshine ready for pictures

Molly, always the good sport, eating goldfish while sisters get their pictures done

Happy to be done!

Ava's acro costume - I'm pretty excited to see this routine

My girls with three of their favorite big girls - Miss Madi, Miss Courtney, and Miss Victoria