Dancing fiend

My niece got married this weekend and my son came to the wedding. He is 5 years old and this is the first wedding that he has been to since he is old enough to remember (he has been to some when he was very little).

He seemed to be fine during the ceremony (although I can't speak to much to that since I was standing up in the wedding). He was certainly excited about the reception. He couldn't wait to dance. He would even dance across the dance floor before the dance floor was even opened up.

After they started the dancing we couldn't keep him off the floor. I think he asked just about every girl at the reception to dance. He is actually pretty good at dancing even. It was very fun to watch him. His entire body moves when he dances, and sometimes he looked like a marianette puppet out there.

They had the dollar dance (for those of you who don't know what this is, during American weddings, we do a dance where you can pay to dance with either the bride or the groom...basically this is a way to give them money). When they announced that they were going to do the dollar dance, my son came running over to my husband and asked for money because "you have to pay to dance this one".

We gave him some money and I took him over and asked who he wanted to dance with. He didn't want to dance with either my niece or her new husband, he wanted to dance with the bridesmaid that was taking the money for the dance. I had to talk him into actually dancing with the bride or the groom. When it was the next persons turn, he was very upset because he was dancing with her. He ended up having a special dance with the bridesmaid that he had paid for too, because he just really wanted to dance with her.

He was so excited about dancing that when he went to the bathroom, he was going as fast as he could so he could get back out to dance.

Looks like I might have to get him into some dance lessons!