Cotillion

So we decided to sign Austin up for a local Cotillion group this year; he said he was not a big fan of it, but that's okay - we thought they did a good job reinforcing things we try to teach him at home.  The last night of the Cotillion was yesterday and at the very end, the kids dance with their parents of the opposite gender to "show them their dance moves" .... HA!! Eric thought these were worth documenting - not sure either of us really knew what to do!!!

In theory, he is showing me how to do the ChaCha here - it was so hard not to laugh hysterically at his instructions - just being honest ;0

At least we got a good picture together - as you can see from the room in the background - it was a FULL house!!  There were something like 170 5th grade kids from two of the local elementary schools who were in his group.

In the end, the best part for the boys was getting to dress up and hang out with their friends - Austin and the other boy in this picture, Braden, have been great friends since Kindergarten so it was fun to see how much they have changed over the years.  And I almost fell down when I saw how happy Austin was to take this picture with Ansley in it too; I thought maybe he was not feeling very good - but then a friend reminded me that smiling was something they had worked on in the Cotillion classes - duh Mom!!!

 

Side note, when the kids were dancing with each other, the most bizarre thing would happen...the lion's share of the boys would NOT look at the girls and the girls would make eye contact when they first started holding the boys hands, but then very quickly they too stopped looking at them - as you can kind of see from the picture above, Austin, his dance partner, and even the boy to his right are staring off into another direction - of course, when asked about this, Austin claimed it was because he did not want to look at the girls and he was watching/talking to his friends to his left - but Oh My Goodness - it was SO FUNNY!!!