Why Pink?

So I have had an exciting day. I always knew I would some day be signing P and S up for various activities. I knew someday I would put S into a ballet class.... it maybe cliche but every girl needs it it teaches self awareness and a sense of self as well as grace and agility.  Can S achieve these through other sports you bet ... but in my own life experience I have used the discipline and movements as well as stretches etc. from Ballet in every athletic thing I have ever done including rock climbing and bungee jumping...... I also have to note that I am more than a little excited to have a little girl to put into ballet lessons..... Now I was 3 years old at my first lesson.. and yes, I still remember the day very vividly my Mom fussed over making my bun just so and my Dad a photographer was there ready with the "big" camera as I called it in had. The class was in a huge school gym and I remember thinking there were so many kids there. I lived in a small town and being 3 my world was limited to a few neighbor kids so a group of 20+ seemed huge to me. I remember the excitement how I concentrated to do things just right. I loved it the thrill the exhilaration . I was free to do things on my own... plus I loved learning. To this day the black and white picture of me in a perfect little ballerina pose in first position hangs on my wall my kids giggle when I tell them it is me.

Now S looks exactly like me spitting image..well she has a longer torso thanks to her tall Daddy... but height weight facial features hair everything are me..... somehow though she is WAYYYYYYYY cuter:)

anyways

So today it came to be that at 18 months ( in 4 days) she can be in her first ballet class !!!! can you imagine 18 months !!! I am so excited but she is my baby the youngest of them all ( and the most strong willed) she doesn't have enough hair for a braid and she has smaller feet than I ever did so finding ballet slippers is a challenge.... but yes here they actually have a ballet class for her age group ! ( can't get golf lessons for the 5 year old but ballet for an 18 month old) I am so excited for her I am excited because she will have a chance to play and have fun with other kids her age.... he world is small the kids in her brother's pre-school class and a few neighbor kids. I wonder if she will remember anything.... It is ok if she doesn't I just want her to have fun she loves to dance at home... and just to be with other kids and hearing music a favorite of hers. Even if she decides that ballet isn't for her someday that is ok too. Hopefully she will take the body moving lessons from it and have a little more grace in her world.

So I have signed her up I'm all excited and I get the information for the class "uniform" and she has to wear all PINK !!!!!!! ARGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have avoided the dreaded color and here I have to bath her in it make her look as though pepto bismol has poured all over her blech !!!!! even when I was little and through out even my adult ballet classes we wore black leotards and pink tights and believe me the pink tights were bad enough but here they insist she have a pink leotard and pink tights ..... WHY????? why????? is she less of a girl if she wears another color leotard ??? I say NO..... why do all "ballerina's " have to wear pink????? give me some rational explanation???? I will give you the pink tights highlight the legs to show movement but a pink leotard too. Poor girl !!!!!

Yes I will let it go before her first class on Thursday and will not utter a word to her but seriously why pink?