Ashley's ballet recital

 Even more excited than for ballet pictures because I told her she could wear eye shadow too!  In her costume upstairs in the theater!  Below with some of her classmates and teacher

 There was a television upstairs outside their dressing room so the girls could watch the performance while they waited their turn to go on stage.

 All the dancers were onstage at the beginning for the singing of the national anthem-you can only see about half of them in the picture

 I took lots of pictures so that Ashley could see.  We also have purchased a dvd-I bet Ashley will wear it out watching it.  Below, the dancer up on the male dancer's shoulder is Ashley's teacher.

 Below in the blue is Teacher Maan again

 I asked Ashley which costumes were her very favorite ones and was surprised when she said the blue sailor ones below-they are cute but I was just surprised that she chose these when there were several pink ones to choose from!

 This is Ashley's class-the Radiant Rubies.  Below picture she is in the front row

 Below she is dancing in the back row

 Hilariously-this is how she spent about half of her time on the stage, trying to see us!  When she finally found us she was so busy waving that she missed her cue to get up and continue her dance!

 We had told her about the tradition of dancers getting flowers and she helped me choose the ones she wanted earlier in the day and I had shown her how to carry them, but in the below picture, the bunch of flowers with a skirt below is Ashley!

 Don't know why her tongue was stuck out here!

This is Ashley's section of ALL the dancers on the stage again at the end of the performance!

 Some pictures in the theater lobby before changing clothes and heading home-finally!  We had left home for the practice at 3:30 because it was far from our house and through a part of Manila with a lot of traffic.  The performance was from 7-9 and it was about 10:30 when we got home that night!

 So proud of our sweet little girl and enjoyed and laughed at her dance!

 We have been enjoying her pretty flowers and I got her a shirt from her ballet school which she immediately wanted to put on!