bust a move

Kooka has always been a ballerina. She was almost two when she took her first class, and 26 months when she started weekly lessons. Pink and swirly and sparkles and girly - that has always been her style.

But then today, we tapped her to do a cameo in a hip hop piece with 5th graders. Honestly, I thought it would be more work than it would be worth, thought I'd spend hours practicing, talking about style . . . but noooooooo.

She learned it when I was teaching the big kids, and dang - the girl can bust a move, even got hi-fives from the 11 year olds - maybe she is my kid after all.