Dance competition.

Busy couple of months headed our way with game days, dance recitals, birthday parties, and baby showers. We found out tonight last minuet that Sophia's dance class was selected for competitions Febuary 27th which will be held here in Montgomery this time around. For the most part the age for competition is 7 years old. Although Sophia is the smallest dancer in her class there is one other girl her age that is 3 moths older than she is, but most of the other girls are 7, and 8 year olds. Sophie will be 6 April 8th. We are considering letting her participate in the competition. When we started ballet, and Tap it was with the idea for excerise, balance, and confidence. She has come out of her shyness quite a bit as she used to hide behind my legs, and sometimes still does at school, etc, etc. She has come along way socially though. If she does compete we were told tonight that they will wear the recital costumes. I still have no idea of what they look like this year, but I hope they are more toned down from years past. :) Well, I'm off to bed. I had a very long week!! The last two days have been very stressful which I knew they would be considering our kiddos have trouble adjusting to their schedules after such a long break from their every day routines. It's really hard on Autistic children when things change from what they are used to on a day by day, hour by hour so on, and so on in their lives. Structure, and stability reign supreme for them I guess as it should be for most anybody. :) The only thing I dread when vacation time comes is the stress, and anxiety that come with the week, or two afterwar that it takes to get the students back to functioning like they normally do without so many meltdowns, and so forth. We have enough of those without all the added extra ones when school is out for any extended length of time!! :) Have a nice weekend.