I signed Carrie up for a dance class at the YMCA. We needed to buy a leotard, ballet shoes and tap shoes. The only XXS leotard left at our local Target was blue, and thinking Carrie would definitely want pink I asked an employee if they carried them, or could hold one at a different Target. But Carrie spoke up and said, “But Mommy, I want the blue one!”
Doesn’t she look fabulous in her blue leotard? And she had so much fun in her class! I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything as cute as those six little 3- and 4-year-old girls doing teeny tiny little pliés and tapping their way across the room heel-toe-heel-toe.
I was worried when I bought the blue leotard that Carrie would see all the other girls in pink (and they all were) and want pink instead. And she did, on the way home in the car, say she wanted a pink leotard like the other girls. But she (I think) accepted that the store was out of pink, that she had chosen blue, and that she looked absolutely beautiful in it, and that maybe when she out-grew it we’d try to find a pink one.
Good thing, too, because I’m most of the way through a blue leg-warmer…
She looks fantastic in blue! Tiny ballerinas are so sweet. I just watched my friends little 3 yr old in ballet class the other day – it was adorable.
She looks so grown-up in blue!