Zimmerman Shenanigans: recital

Monday, June 25, 2012

First Recital

Sunday was Riley's first dance recital. It was quite the production and Riley was so excited about it all week. Her Nana and Poppy came up for it and it's about all that she could talk about for weeks. Wednesday we had her dress rehearsal and she did great, she followed her teacher Miss Jessica and did all the moves and loved being on stage. When she was done she wanted to do it again. Of course me being the hot mess of a mom of two that I am forgot my good camera and my video camera nd just had my iPhone. Big miss on my part! But I was highly optimistic for Sunday. Well, the actual recital was a huge fail. About 3 or 4 acts into the show, which was held in a huge auditorium, I got the "Will Riley Zimmerman's mom please report backstage." I took off, I don't remember my feet hitting the floor, all I remember was turning around and seeing Jacob's bottle roll down the aisle (Marc was holding him thank goodness). I sprinted, like seriously, I don't know how because I haven't run since before I was pregnant with Riley so if you do the math that's about 4 years ago and ran backstage. She'd been complaining all weekend about a tummy ache so I seriously thought she had an accident and I had no idea how I was going to fix that situation. Turns out Riley had a case of good old fashioned stage fright, which I think was magnified by the fact that she was coming down with the stomach flu. She had been crying for me before they went on stage so they wanted me to calm her down. I calmed her down enough that we went to the side of the stage with the other girls but she still wouldn't go out there. They told me I could go dance with her. Um, big fat no chance! I didn't need to be on stage with three 3 year olds doing ballerina bear with about 100 people watching me stand there! Then Miss Jessica said she would dance with Riley. Nope, Riley didn't want that either. I finally convinced Riley that it was ok to be scared but she needed to go try it and if she still didn't like it she could run off stage and I would be waiting for her. So she lined up, looked up, started crying and ran off stage to the sound of the entire audience going "aw" and the show went on without her. They held it for a few minutes but there was no way I was getting her out there. It took a good 1/2 hour to calm her down. She went on stage for the finale but in the arms of a teenage girl. The dance place was so nice (she does dance through her school so I've never really met them) and they held her CD in the machine and had the girls do the dance after everyone left for just the families which of course Riley had no issues doing. They video taped it so it would be on the DVD, which was so nice of them. And her Marc thought he was getting out of the $40 DVD! But despite the performance fail, Riley looked darn cute!!! I missed the whole show but Marc and my parents said Jacob did great! He watched the whole show and barely fussed, he loved watching all of the girls dance!