Nutcracker

Sweet Pea has been taking classes a local aerial arts studio for the last 18 months, and this year she participated in their Nutcracker performance. It's all the same music from Tchaikovsky, but set to choreography on silks, trapeze, stilts, tumbling, lyra, and cyr. It's really interesting! I'm not that knowledgeable about ballet, so I find a performance like this -- with multiple genres -- more entertaining.

Sweet Pea had great experience. She and Mia were in it together, performing in the tumbling act as bracelets, and in the hip hop act as nightmares. (And yes, we had fun teasing Sweet Pea about being "a total nightmare"!)

She had lots of fans in the audience: us, all four grandparents, her cheer coach from school, and even her good friends Raleigh and Mackenzie. I was also extremely thankful for a professional photographer who took great pictures of the dress rehearsal and shared them with the families.

And don't you just love this family picture? Someone was very unhappy about wearing a sweater.

It was a fun but exhausting weekend for Sweet Pea. And now CC has made it her goal to be in this performance next year, so we might have two nightmares on our hands soon!