Sunday, July 13, 2014

Faubourg 2013: Day 7: Monday Week 2

Good Morning!  To Classes we GO!




Faubourg Day 7: Faye Faye 2.5 hrs, Hannah 3.5 hrs, Lindsay/Gabe 7.0hrs. The kids were told by Mr. Casey today that a dancer should do 1,000 tendues a week. Of course he did not say total or per leg. So when we got back to the hotel (after Gabe had obsessed about it) they made a graph on how they were going to achieve this 1000 tendues a week. They are going to do 168 tendues per leg 6 days a week. In 1st position 28 devant (front), 28 derriere (back), 28 a la seconde (to 2nd position). Then from 5th 28 devant (front), 28 derriere (back), 28 a la seconde (to 2nd position). *ROLLS EYES* I did not realize how technical this had to be. LOL Fayeth had a great day of dance. She is applying corrections and continuing to enjoy every moment of it. She has shown great improvement in her splits. There are 2 ways that splits are done here at Faubourg with squared hips and opened hips. Opened hip splits are easier (okay that is just semantics because ANY type of splits are enough to require a surgery to repair my fractured pelvis!) Hannah is still loving the intensive but she is missing her friends a lot. Hannah is starting to embrace her height and the length of her extremities. She is starting to apply that she can dance big because her legs and arms are twice as long as everyone else's. Basically put, Hannah and Fayeth should not make it across the stage in the same amount of steps because Hannah's legs are longer. Mrs T has been encouraging her about his as has Ms. Wendy. Now with the teachers here also reinforcing it, she is becoming more comfortable within her body. Today we got into trouble. When we came to pick up the twins, Mr. Casey came out of floor barre and told the little sisters that they should be attending the floor barre class in the afternoon. They were so excited to be told that they could do this, but embarrassed that they "got in trouble". :giggles: Gabe has had a great day. His flexibility has increased and he is working on his upper body strength. He is required to do push ups after the end of every class with Mr. Casey. Lindsay came out of class floating on cloud 9. Her technique teacher earlier in the day was very complimentary of her hard work and her performance in class. Then at the end of the day Mr. Casey pulled her and Gabe aside and complimented Lindsay on her hard work and motivation. He said he can see her hard work on her turn out, flexibility and maintaining her turn out. A compliment on her turn out is like giving that child the world. 3 compliments from 3 people that she looks up to in 2 days has motivated her to work even harder. She was beyond thrilled to be noticed by Mr. Casey! I am surprised that she did not pass out from the attention from him. The absolute funniest thing today was that we were able to find tape for Lindsay's toes that only sticks to itself. For those of you that know, Lindsay has multiple allergies and has a history of anaphylaxis. So we are always careful as once you have an anaphylactic reaction you can have another one. So, Lindsay preventatively taped her toes so that it could protect her toes from any further blisters. She did it by herself and before I left from drop off, she came up to me asking me for help. She said, "Mommy, can you please retape my toes?" I took her things from her and she says to me, "Yes one of the older girls told me that my toes were blue. I told her that it was my toenail polish but when I looked down they were BLUE!" When I looked down her 4th and 5th toes on her left foot were PURPLE-BLUE! I quickly removed the tape and allowed circulation to resume to her toes. I could not help but laugh at her. I said, "Child we have enough issues finding pointe shoes to fit your already narrow feet and tapered toes! Could you imagine trying to find a shoe for a 3 toed ballerina? :giggles: The best and worst part of the day was Yahtzee. We had a great time playing. Fayeth won the first game and Hannah the second. Fayeth did not like that and had an EPIC meltdown! She was exhausted and was sleeping by 9:30pm. Thank God for that! Today's picture brought to you by Hasbro! I am ready to send Yahtzee back to them!





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