November 2008- Afton's first "Dance" performance

I think these photos will speak for themselves, but I'll preface: One of our cute neighbors is on her school's drill team and asked if Afton would be interested in learning a dance to perform at the drill team's yearly concert. Afton said she wanted to do it, so she and about 100 little girls learned the dance in 2 or 3 nights. She had it down and was excited for the show! Well... I think performance night wasn't quite what she expected. The result was quite cute (slash-hilarious)!

Even with a blurry picture, you can see very clearly: she was SO not going to cooperate!

We knew it was going to be an interesting 2 minutes at this point.

No- she wasn't supposed to stand in the middle of the circle while everyone else laid on their bellies.

And, no she wasn't supposed to take her arms out of her sleeves, and as a result throw her mom and dad into a state of panic (I think Trav and I were chanting in a tense whisper: "PLEASE don't take off your shirt, PLEASE don't take off your shirt!!! )

The arms stayed tucked away the rest of the performance until the final bow when only one decided to reappear.

Even when it was all over- not one smile, nope, not ONE!

She's still a little star, though! :)