holiday concert

Last night was Ada's annual holiday concert put on by her day care. Last year they had all of the classes together in one night and there was madness, absolute madness when they finally released the parents into the auditorium. Put it this way - you would have thought the Beatles were on stage the way some parents were acting.

This year they separated the program into two nights and let the parents take their seats after dropping off their kids in the lobby.

Ada's Little Monkey class was the first class to go and they dutifully sang the Snowy Pokey (think Hokey Pokey) and the 12 Days of Christmas. This is a class of 3 year olds - so we got the standard girl twirling around on stage not singing at all, the rambunctious boy hogging the mic and singing really loud, the gaggle of playful girls sharing the other mic...and then engaging in a playful shoving match over said mic, and then there was Ada and a few of her other friends dutifully singing the songs, doing the hand motions, and only getting slightly distracted by the madness around them. Ada was pretty funny to watch.. she sang most of the songs, and she got most of the hand motions, but the one thing she did better than ALL of her class... was blowing kissing and waving energetically to the crowd.

I see a future of parade routes and beauty pageants ahead of us.. Lord help me now..