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Our Halloween Cat, ballet style

 Our little ballerina, who at the age of 2 insisted on taking ballet....

 so glad I listened to her request, her poise and grace is made for ballet.

 just the other day she said, "Mommy, I am still trying to decide if I will be a ballerina or a swimmer when I grow up."

 I told her she could be both, no worries.

She is growing up.  And as she grows, the more I appreciate her determined little spirit.  Kindergarten this year has been just what the doctor ordered - she LOVES every minute of her day and looks forward to the next morning when she can awake and do it all over again.  Her teacher understands her and describes her as "perceptive" and "an old soul." She has become very artistic, loving to draw and paint in her spare time.  Swimming continues to be second nature to her.  Recently she began swimming twice a week in a local year-round program.  One day she began to cry and was insistent that she was not going to get in the pool.  A bit irritated, I took her out and asked her what in the world was going on.  Her response, "I have to swim with the big kids and they are going to beat me!"  Our little one likes to succeed.  Hard for her to see that success is not always being first - she continues to swim with the "big kids" learning how to do flip turns and perfecting the butterfly stroke, definitely success for a 5 year old. So very thankful for this little one.