Faubourg 2013: Day 5

Faubourg Day 5: Long Day: Faye Faye 2.5 hours, Hannah 3.5 hrs, Lindsay and Gabe 7.0 hrs. Our morning started off checking out of the hotel. We had decided to come home Friday afternoon and we would drive back Saturday for classes. Faubourg is a 6 day a week program. All of the dancers seemed to be very energetic for having danced 4 days already. I can tell you that us parents were not so much!  Fayeth is really enjoying her classes though she said that her Ballet Class feels a bit too easy. I told her it was all about mastering the technique. Keeping her back flat and straight and not having a duck butt. Which she still needs some reminding on. Hannah loves ballet (which never ceases to amaze me to type). She also got to have a hip hop class today. Which was "a lot of fun". Lindsay and Gabe also had hip hop along with their 4 ballet classes. They are always sad when their classes end but smile all the time as they are having a great time. Our drive home took just under 3 hours. I will be finding a new route! We went by to surprise Gramma and Grampa and the kids decided to take a quick swim in the pool as well as then soak in the hot tub. Lindsay said that the hot tub was HEAVEN! Tonight's picture is of Gabe. This poor child was so tired in the car that he grabbed the first pillow to cuddle with to sleep. He said to us before he fell asleep....By the time I wake up we will be almost home. Well.... time wise, we should have been. However it took us 1 hour and 20 minutes to go 22 miles. So he was very confused when he woke up and realized that we had only gone a short distance in a long amount of time. Tomorrow back to Faubourg for classes! They are having the time of their lives!

Faubourg 2013: Day 4

Day 4:  7:03am Sweet Baby still sleeping.  Perhaps dreaming of Sugar Plums.....

The very glamorous life of being the Baby Sister....Hurry Up and Wait.....

First Blister EVER!!!!

Faubourg 2013: Day 3

Faubourg Day 3: 2.5 hours Fayeth, 3.5 hours Hannah and 7.5 hours Gabe and Lindsay. This morning brought more stretching, but today it has been out of necessity not just for fun. It also brought the need for more Epsom Salt for muscle aches and more ice/ice packs for achey and swollen feet. (I have already gone through 20# ice). The humidity and amount of dancing they have been doing has resulted in swollen feet. Today a teacher was speaking to a few of us parents at drop off and she informed us that the worst is yet to come. She says Saturday will be the worst and it will get better from there. Faubourg is a technique based school. So technique is what they get. Lindsay and Gabe are averaging 4 ballet classes a day 5 days a week and 2 on Saturday. 4 days a week they get 1 hour of another discipline of dance (modern, hip hop or jazz). The kids are loving EVERY.MINUTE! The are so excited to go every morning (and wake up before the alarm) and they are so sad when it is time to leave. They would stay and dance more. What a great experience this has been! This evening the kids decided to spend the evening reading on their kindle and taking it easy. Muscles Ache and Feet Hurt, but Lindsay says..."No Pain No Gain!"

Floor Barre Day 3:  Hannah and Fayeth

Faubourg 2013 Day 2

Bedtime Day 2: The littlest ballerina has sore thighs, the oldest ballerina is sleeping with 1 leg warmer on (not sure why), sore ankles (she says good sore, like ankle strengthening sore), the middle ballerina has sore feet and legs, and the boy ballet dancer has sore hips and hammies. Epsom Salts are our friends! 

Faubourg 2013 Day 1

I am moving FB posts to my blog so that down the road the kids can come here and read about what we have done.  So please be patient while I update this from our intensive last summer.

Day 1 of Faubourg Summer Ballet Intensive: all Four had a blast. Faye Faye was very mad that she only got to dance 2.5 hours, Hannah was absolutely loving ballet. (Which is NOT her favorite discipline of Ballet) Lindsay and Gabe are absolutely thrilled with their teachers and their classes. After 7+ hours of classes they were very sad that it was time to go back to the hotel. While it is a pain in the but living in a small hotel room, their little faces make it all worth while. They cannot wait to go back tomorrow. 

While cuddling with The Baby while she was falling asleep, she looked up at me and said, "Mommy I hope that tonight is one of those sleeps that is a quick sleep. When you wake up it is time to go back an dance!

Stretching before class

Lindsay texting her friend Grace before the intensive.  She was wishing her good luck at the Joffrey Junior Summer Intensive.

The view while I was blowdrying my hair....