pageants pageants

Over the weekend we tried a new pageant system with the Jelly Bean. It went pretty good. We had to get up early on Saturday morning to be able to get to the town where the pageant was going to be at. We had to drive like 45 minutes to 50 minutes, maybe a hour after stopping to get breakfast. We had to have her register by 9:45 am. We got there about 9:20 I think dont remember the exact time we got there. After paying for Mike and I to get in to the venue I got Jelly Bean registered and then went to the dressing room to get her ready. There was two things that brother me about the dressing up. One was that there was a guy in there helping his wife with their daughter. I get that they was babies and toddlers but I do believe that father's shouldn't be in the dressing room full of little girls. They had separate dressing rooms for boys and girls for a reason. As they dont want males in the room with females. So I really think father's shouldnt be in the dressing rooms. But that was not my biggest issue with the dressing. I was trying to fix Jelly Bean's hair and get her ready. Jelly Bean was already fighting me a little with me fixing her hair, so I was already struggling with her alittle. But Jelly Bean does not like it when anyone laughs at all. She will scream and crying. Well in the dressing room some people started laughing and you guessed it she started screaming and crying. It just felt like these people knew it to ( I know they knew it as I was telling her that they was not laughing at her. To try to calm her down) as it just seemed like they would get louder everytime she would scream and laugh. Needless to say this mommy almost had a melt down in the dressing room. I just got so tired of trying to calm her down and finish up her hair so I just left it like it was and just put a bow in it and then put her dress, socks, and shoes on and gather up our stuff and walked out of the dressing room. 
Jelly Bean wouldn't even walk out of the dressing room because she was so upset about the laughing. I carried her to her daddy and left her with him while I went cooled down a few minutes. Once she calmed down and mommy calmed down also we had a pretty good pageant day. Jelly Bean was walking around and dancing around until she had to go up on stage. I was kind of worried that she would crying and pitch a fit on stage but she didnt. She didnt really want to walk on stage but she did not cry on stage like she had done at last pageant or two. She even gave them a little bit of a smile on stage and waved bye when she started to get off stage.  ( I will post a link to a video of her pageant. at the end of the blog so you can see her in action. ) She got Second alternate and that is okay we really dont do the pageants as we got to win the big titles. If she wins them she wins them it is not going to hurt our feelings if she doesnt. I want her to learn that is okay to lose some and it is okay to win some. We are just proud of her for doing her best. And we was really proud that she did not cry on stage. That may have been because we promised her if she did not cry on stage then she would get a toy. And yes she got a toy for not crying on stage. She also got photogenic. She is very photogenic lol. She has gotten photogenic in the last two pageants (counting this one makes three).
She has three more pageants coming up but we are hoping that we will be able to put her in at least two more pageants this year but three more would be good. We are hoping to put her in one that is in July. She has one in August and one in Sept. We are hoping to put her in a halloween one and a christmas one. She also has one in Nov also. The christmas one we are hoping to put her in is with the pageant system we started with and we are looking forward to that.

Here is the link to our youtube channel. We will have videos of her pageants there and videos of other things. But it will most likely be videos of just Jelly Bean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz8LDUzYq5k&t=106s  follow us on there. We are really just now getting started on videos on there.
We hope you all are doing good and had a good weekend.