Can it be that it is finally here? I was not sure that this winter was ever going to end but I now see proof. The temperatures have actually been above 20 a few times in the last week, trees are budding and things are actually green! We spent a wonderful Mother's Day doing nothing more than spending the day together in the backyard. Happy Spring!

This weekend I had the opportunity to photograph all of the dancers from our local dance school owned and run by the amazing Miss F. A few times I would actually forget I was supposed to be taking the pictures while I watched her in action posing group after group of dancers from the teeniest ballerinas to the senior groups who can do a costume and hair change in minutes! I have some work ahead of me but I wanted to post a behind the scenes which was just a quick snap I took for metering and just shows a snippet of the day. Thanks to all of the dancers for being such incredible subjects!
 

So my six year old daughter has a slight obsession with the movie Annie. Now I know these types of things are normal around this age but it has been going on at least a year and a half. Annie songs are the only songs she wants to sing and we hear the CD over and over and over again. She will sing "Tomorrow" for anyone that is willing to listen often accompanied by a ballet like twirling and leaping dance and act out her favourite scenes. This started when I bought the 80's version of the Annie movie remembering how much I liked it as a kid and since then we have bought the 90's version of the movie, seen the play twice and she is ecstatic for the new version coming out next Christmas.

Now as the daughter of a woman constantly pointing a camera at her since the day she was born she is not always open to me photographing these moments. But this particular day I lucked out as she had a friend over and I was formally invited to watch the production as a photographer :) I need to use that one more often.

If any other parents of 5-7 year old girls are reading this I am sure you have no sympathy as your kids are probably pretending to be Elsa right at this very moment and belting out the lyrics to "Let It Go".

 Although sometimes I think I can not possibly hear that soundtrack one more time I still peek my head silently around the corner whenever the music starts.