Today is "Parent Observation Day" at ballet. This means that parents are expected to go watch a session of their child's ballet class, cringe when their child is not doing something correctly, and be completely unable to discuss any of it with their child until the end of the class, at which point the child does not remember most of the class.

I'm a little skeptical of parent observation day. Today, however, my mother is likely going to be the adult observer. In theory, we could both go - there is no limit on the number of adults - but in practice, you are strongly urged not to bring siblings, and Jacob is exactly the type of sibling they are wanting to exclude.

I'm not sure what we're going to do about ballet next year. I am not 100% confident that she'll even want to continue, but assuming she does, I don't know if we'll go back to the same school. It's a great school. The teachers are wonderful. It has an excellent program for learning dance. I'm just beginning to wonder if it's not a little too focused for what Gillian wants. I don't know. It would definitely be easier just to keep going there than to find somewhere else.


Jacob is asking to watch "Safety Dance" on youtube now, except that he calls it "we can dance," which I suppose makes sense.

I need to eat breakfast. I fed him and didn't feed myself. Whoops.