It's a long story involving at least five readers of this blog.
1. David and Ashley turn Brent and Lyndsay, Maxine's grandparents, on to So You Think You Can Dance when they visit them in LA.
2. We visit Brent and Lyndsay in Colorado, where Maxine sees the season finale of SYTYCD. She becomes obsessed with it, especially the hip-hop dancing. Brent makes us a video tape of it.
3. Maxine watches the video tape about 50 times once we get back to St. Louis.
4. Bonnie, Maxine's godmother, gives her a dance class for her birthday. We choose hip-hop at COCA!
5. Maxine practices her routine everywhere, including street corners and the bathtub.
6. And so that's how "Do It Well" ended up on my ipod, along with Jordin Sparks, Rihanna, The Pussycat Dolls, and Chris Brown. In fact, we are both loving top-40 radio now. Hey, I may even pick up a few moves myself.
The class was a great experience for her - she started out struggling to keep up, with no concept of beat, and ended up the best in her class.
Next semester she is going to change gears and take ballet. Hm, you know, I have no interest in ballet, so its hard for me to be as excited about it, but I guess if you are serious about dance you have to take ballet at some point. Get it, point?
4 comments:
I LOVED this post. That is sooo funny to me. I keep picturing her dancing around in her fancy outfit that Lashley brought for Christmas. So cute. Is there anyway we could get a video of this routine?
Well, my camera batteries ran out just as I was going to take video at her final class. But I'm sure I could talk her into doing it at home. :)
i'll go ahead and take credit for the eventual "discovery" of maxine's talent as a dancer.
; )
That is totally cute! Cyan starts dance in two weeks and just can't wait!
Val
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