Mother's day weekend we celebrated Addie's Ballet Recital, Mother's Day and YaYas birthday! Addie was excited about her recital but equally excited to be done with ballet. Ballet was quite a commitment for both Addie and for her chauffeur, me! We started in August and practiced one night a week until her recital. In September (yes...one month in) Addie decided ballet wasn't for her but I was determined to not let her quit something. She ended up really enjoying it and was glad she did not quit. She also loved that her friend Kenz was there with her! These pictures are not the clearest but you get the point.
This recital was truly amazing and so well organized. This dance program is so large they had to split all the classes up into 4 recitals and each recital was about 2 hours long. Each class did a tap number and a ballet number. Every class had a different costume...and they all looked wonderful! The lights on the stage were coordinated with the costume that each close wore...it was amazing!
I love how all of them are doing something completely different. Hilarious!
Kenz is standing to the left of Addie.
The picture below shows Addie thinking "Is that Granddad taking my picture?"
"Yes...I think it is granddad but I am not quite sure"
"Oh Yes...that is definitely granddad taking my picture!"
Addie was a little overwhelmed afterwards because sooo many people came to see her in her recital. She wasn't quite sure what to do with herself so she decided to hide in YaYa's skirt!
Here are the people that came to see Addie: 
Grandmomma Lowry and YaYa
Me of course with Addie
Sara, David, Sadie, Mimi and Pop (you can see Addie is still overwhelmed in the picture above)
Aunt Winne in the pic above and Auntie Caroline in the pic below
YaYa and Granddad
Grandmomma Lowry
Uncle Rod and Aunt Winnie
Addie quickly overcame her shyness when a few presents showed up.....
Addie LOVES Ariel so I surprised her with an Ariel themed day!
Of course the cake place wrote the wrong thing on the cake....It was supposed to say "Congratulations Addie and Happy Birthday YaYa" but instead they wrote "Happy Birthday Addie and YaYa"...oh well....it still tasted good and Addie loved it!
Addie dressed herself after the recital....in a 4th of July dress....
Everything above happened on the Saturday before Mother's day! It was wonderful that Susan and I could celebrate with our Mom. Addie celebrated with me and Dad was able to celebrate with his mom too! Of course we are equally excited to have a new mom in the mix...Aunt Winnie is already a mom to Baby of course but she is also due in October! I can't wait to be an Aunt! I call him "Little Earl"! We think it is a boy but won't know for sure until the week of May 23rd!
On Sunday we headed over to Kat Kat and Cole's for our first day of sprinkler summer fun! It was awesome! What a great Mother's Day weekend this was! 
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