Lauren... The Vain One

Lauren has been asking for about a month to take a dance class. I'm not sure where she came up with this, but I have wanted to enroll her in something but I was worried it would go the way of the swim lessons from last summer.

Sidebar: We enrolled her in a 2 week, 4 days a week for an hour, swim lessons at the YMCA last summer. I think we made it to half of the lessons. Lauren would either cry through the whole swim lesson or cry before we would leave. She decided she was scared of the water and even though we were in a Mommy and Me class with babies, she acted like the biggest baby out of all of them. Seriously, there were a couple of 6 month olds in our class.

Anyway, I have been dragging my feet about starting a dance class because I know my child and I know she will not participate for most of the class. I decided we would not enroll her in any sort of professional dance place because I didn't want to waste our money. Everyone at work talks about a place called The Little Gym (we are having Lauren's birthday party there this year) so I called them today and they let us come for a free class to see if we would like it. The dance class consists of 30 minutes of tap and ballet and 30 minutes of gymnastics. When we left there Lauren had decided that she did not want to take dance but did want to take gymnastics. So tomorrow will be our first day of gymnastics. Hopefully she will warm up to it and have fun.

We went to Target tonight to get her a leotard. We had to try them on to make sure we got the right size. I have been in the dressing rooms with Lauren a couple of times now and I am shocked and horrified. :) When she is trying on clothes she struts and spins and really checks herself out in the mirror. Tonight was no different. Once the leotard was on, she immediately turned around, stuck out her butt and really admired herself. She then announced that the one she had on would do. After we had tried them all on (none of the others met her liking) I told her to put her clothes back on. She spent the next several seconds admiring her naked body (she only had panties on) in the mirror. Lots of bending over and lots of sticking her butt out.

I have no idea where this comes from. She hasn't seen Brian or I do this. She is very into what she looks likes. Her vanity definitely comes from Brian, but he certainly doesn't stick his butt out in front of the mirror and check himself out. She's crazy! And very entertaining. ;)