Ok heidi you might have opened a can of worms with the '2 legged pics' comment. I am the mother of 3 beautiful girls and have over 15000 pics on my computer....crazy! Well, my oldest has been competing in Miss WI pageants since she was 4. She held the Miss WI Princess title in 2009. My middle daughter competed for the first time last year at 4 and did well but is A LOT more timid (used to be) than Danielle. She will be competing again next weekend at age 5. Danielle has moved up an age group and will also be competing...she is 7 and will be against 11 year olds so who knows how she will do. She really just likes the weekend event where she gets to meet a lot of new people and perform. Things tend to come easily to her and so we 'bicker' over her not practicing for her events. The pageants consist of a personal interview, a personal introduction of their own creation (on stage with a mic) and eveningwear. They are scored on how they carry, present and commuincate themselves. Our pageants are NOT like you see on TV-those are crazy. Our pageants do NOT allow makeup on any girl younger than 13 and it is not about 'beauty'. The events also consist of other competitions that they can compete in if they choose...talent, modeling, speech, actress, photogenic, etc. These have no bearing on the title part of it but they can win $. They also have a lot of 'free' contests like coloring, thank yous, participation, baking, etc. We try to enter all of these because what they really want is to hear their name being called and to get a small trophy.
Anyway, here are a few pics of them. My youngest is only 3 and so will not start until next year!
Danielle in her interview suit in 2009
Danielle at the WI. State Fair in 2009
Danielle's evening gown in 2009/Rio Parade
This is Danielle with my mom in Florida at the national pageant. My mom is a WONDER WOMAN and jack of all trades. She farms with me and my brothers (minis with me and beef with them), she can create beautiful stained glass creations, she is a fantastic seamstress and makes almost ALL of the girls outfits for the pageants (and othe things), she cooks like a dream, can build and fix almost anything and lives to help other people. She is the best mom in the world and I would love to be half of her. Her and my dad take care of my girls during the day while we work and I swear my kids would rather stay with them forever...they are great parents who live for their kids/grandkids. (sorry to go on but she is great)
Charlotte at her first pageant last year (this was a learning workshop)...I have to search through all the picture folders and find good ones of her in her gown-she wore red and was great.
Anyway, I could go on for weeks but this is a start! Take care and I hope the evening is a lucky one for Peanut, Moonlight and Suzie
