Holidays are ripe with
traditions. The sweetest can be just beginning. For our second year, Grandma treated the girls to an afternoon of the
Nutcracker.
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We began with a
Sugar Plum Tea Party. Callista danced with the the ballerina's...
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... and cowered from the Nutcracker.
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Ellery posed proudly with the Mouse Soldier...
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and Nutcracker...but was far too shy to dance...go figure.
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Callista kept a running dialogue during the entire performance. She loved to call out "passe," "arabesque" and of course "pas de chat" mommy!
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