dreading picture night

[PrincessFiona]

The girls have pictures tonight for dance....Zoe at 4:30 and Amanda at both 5 and 7 ... ugh. This involves fixing hair, putting on costumes and make-up ... I wish we could just skip it. Does anyone else dread these events? I would rather just take a picture of them on the day of the recital and be done with it ...

kris

[v-girl]

Our studio has the photographer come to the performance. One of the moms is a photographer and she takes action shots during the performance. Another photographer does group and individual pics in one of the dressing rooms.

[houseelf]

Are there drinks provided for the parents?

Just kidding.

Sort of.

[Pollyanna]

Oh shoot me, I hate dance picture weekend. The worst was when we had 32 costume changes between the four kids

[Thirteen]

I remember being in dance, and also dreaded pictures because my mom would use the "evil super comb" and pile my incredibly long, thick, tangly hair into a tight tight bun on my head. Laquered down with hairspray. I always wondered if my scalp would bleed...
Sympathy to the dance moms, though - it sucks getting ready for stuff like that.

[Meenah]

This produces a very bad flashback!!!!!

[PrincessFiona]

Zoe hates having her hair brushed. She cried big buckets of tears...then she grabbed the hot curling iron with her hand before I could use it and burnt her fingers and ... after all of the tears and drama about putting her hair up, all of the curls feel out between our house and pictures despite hair spray (which she also cried over). To top it off, the woman who did the pictures was AWESOME with the little boy ahead of her. She made faces, jokes and jumped around. Zoe fell over trying to do a ballet move and then stood there looking like a ghost was about to attack her ... and the woman snapped 2 pics and moved on. sigh. $35 for pictures and hundreds of dollars in therapy later ....

[BonBon]

You had to PAY for that trauma?!? That's just wrong.

i just found out last week that my girls actually have a recital. For a 4 yr old pre ballet class. They don't even know how to dance yet!

[scrub-jay]

Next time, just don't brush her hair. Let her go as she is... It will be memories... plus torture for future prom dates. !!! (I'm terrible aren't I?)

[v-girl]

Bon Bon- my oldest is a "helper" for a class of 4-year olds. She will be on stage to the side of the itty bitties doing their dance or helping them do it. She didn't have a helper when she was 4 but did pretty well considering. They are so cute anyway!

[L.Jane]

Next time, just don't brush her hair. Let her go as she is... It will be memories... plus torture for future prom dates. !!! (I'm terrible aren't I?)

This! In Kindergarten my mom totally forgot about picture day. I had really long curly hair that just was one HUGE fight every morning, and so some (most) mornings I went to school with crazy hair. That picture of me with my totally unbrushed hair is one of my favorites!