Dance

Abby has been making a lot of progress in dance this year and is really starting to practice and work on things. She is taking ballet, tap and jazz again this year at Motions Dance studio. Her and Addison are in the same class and she loves hanging out with her best friend for a couple hours on Monday nights. After this year we have some hard decisions to make about what we are going to do about dance next year. Addison plans to move up a year and start pointe class. I had my reservations about this and after talking with Steph ,who is a great source of info on this, I decided that we are not ready to go that route. You are suppose to have much more ballet training than either girl has had and to put them in pointe shoes at this age can cause damage to their ankles and its just not necessary. After discussing this with Addison's mom they are still going to move forward with pointe class and since they aren't going to be in the same class anyways I think we are going to switch studios. I have never really liked the owner of this one or how some of the things are done. A new studio went up in Hickman last year and Abby and I went to watch a ballet and lyrical class there. It looked fun and like a good fit for her so I think we are going to try that. I am sad that she isn't going to dance with Addison next year but I feel like we need to make a decision based on what is best for Abby and I think this new studio is a good opportunity for her.