Abby started ballet a little while ago. She calls it, bear with me now, “Lullabligue”. This is three year old slang for Lullabye League which, as everyone knows, is a 25 second bit in The Wizard of Oz immediately prior to the Lollipop Guild’s famous welcome to Dorothy in Munchkin Land. As everyone knows? You all watch The Wizard four times a week at least right? Okay, maybe it’s just me. Rather, maybe it’s just her. She is in OZ four times a week. You can just catch the shoes at the bottom of this picture of the proud owner of a Dorothy dress which Monya made for her birthday.
But I digress. So, she is enamored of the Lullabligue despite their short shrift in Oz.
(Digress again, if Angela ever read this blog she would probably have a better spelling for however it is that Abby refers to the Tutu clad munchkins. I nearly miss it every time and only every really hear it on the “igue” part.) And here is our little Lullabligue. You can see just how excited she is by the twitchy fingers and the set of her mouth…her eyes always look like that.
To make a short story long, Angela and I decided to thumb our noses at our creditors near and far and with luck create some early memories for a Lullabligue this year at the Pacific Northwest Ballet. We bought tickets to see Nutcracker. Music by Tchaikovsky, with sets and costumes by Maurice Sendak (Where The Wild Things Are) you can’t go wrong.
I have never seen a professional ballet but always wanted to, Angela has seen a few and would love to see more, and if her character and form hold true, Abby will be entranced.
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You made my day! Her ballet picture with tap shoes! A nice way to start the week. Of course I am glad that she likes her blue gingham dress as well. Wonderful pictures.
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She is too cute…
this makes me want a girl more and more….
let’s say….August
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YOU have never seen a professional ballet? What did they teach you dawgs? Not sports, not dance, hmmmmm……..
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I took Colette to see the PNB’s production of the Nutcracker last year and she was so thrilled with it. So much so that she wanted to go again this year. I told her it wasn’t an “every year” type of activity as the tickets cost a pretty penny and that it was a “special” occasion and to be enjoyed every so often. I also took Ian when he was 6. He sat through it and said he liked it but never made the same noises to go back as Colette did/does. Enjoy! It will be a fun day! It is so cute to see all the little girls in their best outfits with all the hair and the bows and ribbons. They are precious. MC
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