Little Angels

We were still in Seattle when I discovered a dance studio not far from our house. So, I enrolled Marie and every week we went to dance class.

Her recital went very well. I made her costume. Her muff  and bolero had all these little gathered yo-yos on it. I thought I'd never get through with those!

Then she was asked to be one of the "angels" in the Seafair in Seattle. 

Seafair is sort of like Madi Gras.

The newspaper wanted pictures of the little angels so the organizer/director came by the house to pick Marie and I up to take us to the shoot. The woman had a little Jacquar convertible and we folded into that tiny thing and here she goes zipping along cliffs above the shoreline. That was scary enough but then came the picture taking. 

They wanted the little girls to climb upon ladders behind a large wooden thing painted with blue skies and clouds. The girls were to poke their heads through a hole cut out of each cloud. 

Marie was already nervous from the zippy-do-da trip we'd had and now they want her to climb a ladder. Well she got up okay but it took a lot of coaxing to get her to stick her head through that hole. 

Finally we are finished.

Then comes the night of the Seafair Ball, held in a big hotel downtown. She's four and a half for gosh sakes and she's in the procession of angels and the King and Queen across the ballroom and then had to sit for hours at the foot of the Royalty. I couldn't have been more proud. 

That's her on the right.