Baby Bear Steals the Show: Mary marches in a parade! And dances too!

This year Mary is part of a performance group at her dance studio. Last month was the city of Mason's giant bicentennial celebration, and all of the performance groups at Mary's dance studio marched in the parade together and performed at the festival. It was a big day!

Waiting for the big parade. These two are best buds.

It's an old fire truck! Must be a parade!

David loved these little Corvettes zipping around!

Hooray! Here they come! What we had been waiting for...for a very long time...they were near the end of the parade.

It's not easy dancing and marching at the same time...for miles! But they kept their pep!

Near the end of the parade, the dancers stopped and did a short performance. You can WATCH IT HERE. Mary is up front and on the end, so this video has a good view of her. Cute!

Later that afternoon, the dancers gathered together...in the rain!...for performances by the different dance teams.

Did I mention it was raining and kind of miserable?
(Mary seems to be dealing with the cold rain better than teammate Emma.)

It was rainy and miserable that afternoon. Because of the rain and delays, the dancers weren't able to perform at their scheduled venue. They performed in a wet parking lot! But they handled it well. Mary's group was so cute. They are the youngest group, and they'd only had a few weeks to work on the dance. But they did a great job considering they were performing in a big wet parking lot. It was disorienting for them not to be on a stage--and at one point they started performing the whole dance backwards! But, of course, Mary kept her cool and powered through--they all did!

You can WATCH THEIR PERFORMANCE HERE. Mary is in the front center (but I'm recording from the side). She has a cute short little lip-sync solo at the beginning.

After all of the groups, they invited all the dancers (and anyone else) to jump up for an impromptu dance together ...