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Bella got to take some master classes with Mollee (a recent finalist on "So You Think You Can Dance?"), a guy named Tokyo and another woman whose name I don't recall but they are all amazing dancers so it was a great experience for her!

Our wonderful friend Elizabeth owns horses and rides them everyday.  She offered to teach Melissa and Bella how to ride and to let them come to the stable every week to ride.  Melissa has been asking to ride horses for a few years so this is an amazing gift for her and she couldn't be happier.  Today was the first day so Marcia and I went.  We did not tell Melissa that this was happening so she had no idea.  She is very excited.  Both the girls are completely unafraid and we can tell they are going to be hooked.

Bella had her second ever dance competition last weekend in Owing, MD.  She is, of course, as I've said before an amazing dancer and did a really fantastic job.  She improved considerably over her first competition about a month ago.  She did the same three dances as that one so I think all the girls were a little more relaxed this time.  They placed in each dance and got first place in one of them!

She lost her tap shoe half way through the third dance (you can see it in the photos) but she didn't lose a beat.  We were very proud of her in general but especially because she stayed composed when that happened.

My lens broke on the second day so the pictures of the second dance are a little blurry but I included because of the crazy acrobatics that Bella did in that one.