The pageant went well today. I had the girls by myself all morning and it actually was nice and relaxing getting everything ready. No stress whatsoever. We got to the pageant pretty early and I put Lexi’s hair up in curlers but an hour later when I took them out there were NO curls. I had tried earlier this morning with both my flat iron and curling iron and could not get it to do ANYTHING. Her hair is just straight. So I hooked up my flat iron and got every wave and crinkle out that the curlers had managed to do and had it looking nice and long.
And boy, did that have me worried. The pageant changed a lot this year and there were a lot more girls there and they were SERIOUS! One set of sisters had a dedicated hair and make-up lady. The girls both had acrylic nails that were french manicured. Another little girl in the 3 year old category had fake hair. It’s that curly stuff you attach. She didn’t have any hair so she had it on top like an up-do. We felt a little out of place. But the director had just told me the night before that the judges were looking for natural beauty, a very girl-next-door look and this was definitely not a glitz pageant so I stayed positive.
Lexi was so antsy to get on stage. Once we got within 30 minutes she was begging every few minutes to go on stage. It actually was great to be so calm about it knowing she was excited and I wasn’t worried whether she would do well on stage.
She did well on stage. She couldn’t find the family though until the very end so she didn’t jump around like she did last year until right at the end. But she did twirl and wave.
During awards, Lexi was the last one to receive anything. All the girls had received one or more trophies or crowns and Lexi was looking longingly at all of them and even told me she wanted “one of those”. Poor thing. I breathed a sigh of relief when they called her number to announce she had won one of two spots in her division. You could hear the family go wild in the crowd and it was a great moment for Lexi.
She even put on her crown and sash with nary a complaint!
We had to stick around for pictures and Lexi was TIRED at the end. She ended up yawning in half the pictures at the end. Not sure if we’ll do this next year. Lexi will have to walk on stage by herself next year and who knows if she’ll care about doing it or not. I guess we’ll cross that bridge next year. The one thing we do need to decide is whether to send her to state in the spring. The director told me last night that she knew state judges would love her and since she said she would do well today and she won, well, it sounds promising. But it’s a lot of money. And time. So we’ll see.
Anyway, here are the pictures (very unedited) and below are the videos (of just Lexi) meshed into one.
Oh, sooo cute! Congratulations, Lexi!
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Lexi, you look so pretty and we liked the little twirls you were doing with your Mommy at the end. Congratulations!