ballet

Chloe had her last ballet class this week because the 6 week session we signed up for was over. Before the 2nd class Chloe had already decided that she didn’t like ballet lessons and didn’t want to go anymore. I asked a lot of questions about why she doesn’t like the class and one time she said “there are strangers in the class”. It is true that we did not know any of the girls in class before hand, but that has never been a problem for Chloe who makes friends wherever she goes. I sat and watched most of a class and it looked like fun to me, but there is no time for goofing around and getting to know your classmates, it is all stretching and dancing. I guess Chloe hasn’t had a class like that before where she couldn’t goof off, and she might not be mature enough. While Chloe is in class, Alex and I wait out in the hallway with 11 other moms and siblings. Fortunately there is one little boy who is about Alex’s age and Alex gets along very well with him. On the first that we met the boy Alex came over to me and said “Mom, I made a friend!”. I asked Alex what the boy’s name was and the boy overheard and said “Hawker-H-A-W-K-E-R-6-letters”. At the end of the 6 week session it was Alex who was sad to not be going to ballet class anymore because he’s afraid that he’ll never see Hawker again. Unfortunately Alex didn’t express this sadness until after we’d driven away from the building for the last time, so I haven’t asked Hawker’s mom if Alex and Hawker could get together another time. Hopefully we’ll run into them somewhere.: