Here is the video from Elizabeth's dress rehearsal at Minnesota Viking's Cheerleading practice. It took a whole week for me to figure out how to get this off our camera. It was not cooperating and I am now very wise in the way of video.
As you can see on the video, she was a little more interested in what the pretty, sparkly cheerleaders were doing but she had a great time and really loved wearing the costume more than anything. The first run through (which is the first video) occurred as we were walking in the door so we missed the first part, then we got the second run through in it's entirety (the second video). They did this dress rehearsal because on game day, it's really difficult to see the junior cheerleaders from the field and they are facing the opposite direction than we actually are waiting to collect them when it's done. The second take, she was really quite tired.
On game day, she did great in the warm up before the game started but when half time came around she wouldn't let me go and wanted me to go out on the field with her. One of the cheerleaders came and talked to her and the sparkly cheerleader made her feel better. She went out and performed but because I was on the field, I couldn't see how she did and Jason was too far to see her as well. We only know that she enjoyed doing and said she would do it again.
When Tori is the minimum age, I am sure she will do it too since we had to get another set of pom poms so they wouldn't fight over the set that came with Elizabeth's costume. They definitely love shaking pom poms around and Tori said "ooh, pretty" when she saw Elizabeth in her costume. We pretty much had to bribed Elizabeth out of her costume. I probably have to hide it now so we don't fight about wearing it to school every day.
As you can see on the video, she was a little more interested in what the pretty, sparkly cheerleaders were doing but she had a great time and really loved wearing the costume more than anything. The first run through (which is the first video) occurred as we were walking in the door so we missed the first part, then we got the second run through in it's entirety (the second video). They did this dress rehearsal because on game day, it's really difficult to see the junior cheerleaders from the field and they are facing the opposite direction than we actually are waiting to collect them when it's done. The second take, she was really quite tired.
On game day, she did great in the warm up before the game started but when half time came around she wouldn't let me go and wanted me to go out on the field with her. One of the cheerleaders came and talked to her and the sparkly cheerleader made her feel better. She went out and performed but because I was on the field, I couldn't see how she did and Jason was too far to see her as well. We only know that she enjoyed doing and said she would do it again.
When Tori is the minimum age, I am sure she will do it too since we had to get another set of pom poms so they wouldn't fight over the set that came with Elizabeth's costume. They definitely love shaking pom poms around and Tori said "ooh, pretty" when she saw Elizabeth in her costume. We pretty much had to bribed Elizabeth out of her costume. I probably have to hide it now so we don't fight about wearing it to school every day.
