The Watcher....

We are at ballet, Megan is having one of her twice weekly lessons, getting ready for her first exam in a few weeks time....

....Ruby is watching Megan, from across the building, through a window that looks through another window into the classroom.

Since we started ballet in September last year Ruby tags along more often than not....but she doesn't want to do ballet herself, doesn't want try it out, or tap, or modern, or jazz....just to see if she enjoys it....

Ruby is not a kickboxer, or a footballer, or a gymnast, or a ballerina....she feels much more comfortable watching, intently, from the wings....taking it all in....enough to help Meg practice her routines when we get home.

Ruby is now comfortable to join the drama and dance classes at school, with the children she has known for many years....and she loves it :)

I have sown the seeds of perhaps having some tennis lessons, (Ruby has mentioned it in the past)....she is getting used to the idea, maybe in a few weeks time, when she has had time to think about it....

Ruby is off on an adventure in a weeks time, a weekend away with her class, no parents, no siblings....I know she is anxious....but she will quietly deal with it in her own way....

Ruby is a beautiful, gentle, compassionate soul....and one of these days she is going to step out of the shadows....

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