'"The Sunflower Ballet"

I lay down with her to read a story.  It happens to be a story of a mouse that is a ballerina.  There are words and many pictures of the different ballet moves.  I read to her and she reads to me, having memorized many of the names and words...
 pas de chat (pah de shah) means "cat step"
grand jete' (gron juh-tay)
arabesque (ar-uh-besk)
plie' (plee-ay)
pirouette (peer-uh-wet)
Miss Lilly tells them to point their toes and pirouette.
They follow miss Lilly as she spins gracefully around the room
stretching, bending, touching their toes...
my baby is taking in everything as we breath out words of elegance.
...and I remember being a young lady, feeling music in my soul and the movements of a graceful dancer.  I had been told I was to "big" to be a ballerina, and I never learned to read music.  It was like I felt the notes but couldn't learn them...
so I never did.
The closest I ever came to ballet was baton lessons.
I feel okay about it,
 I  find some tiny ballet slippers for my baby...
she puts them on and dances.
As I watch her dance, standing on her toes, I realize that I am a ballerina...
just like I always wanted to be!