Performance Day

Yesterday was the big performance day for the show that Emily was involved with at school. As you may recall it was a compilation of various songs from various musicals. There have been rehearsals over the past two months and this final week was really intense with rehearsals Sunday through Wednesday. Then, yesterday was devoted entirely to the show.

All told, there were almost 60 kids involved. They performed in the morning for the lower school, in the afternoon for the middle school, and in the evening for family and friends. On the way to school this morning, Emily said that she is really curious to get to school and see what the middle schoolers thought of it because, "little kids and parents are easy to impress." Ha! In fact, she was getting irritated with me last night because she kept asking me what my favorite numbers were and I kept mentioning the ones that she was in. "Mom, you don't have to like it just because I was in it," she said with exasperation. :)

Anyway, there were other great numbers that she was not in, but of the ones that she was in, I think that Hard Knock Life was my favorite. The video quality is terrible (my doing), but here is a sense of it:

As you can probably tell, they just had the kids singing along with a recording. On the one hand, this seems kind of disingenuous, but on the other hand, it was great because it likely saved our ears from an evening of off key singing. :)

Overall, I think that it was a good experience for her. It introduced her to a lot of the older kids at her school, and they all thought that she was the cutest little thing, so now they give her big hugs whenever they see her in the halls, etc. I can tell that she likes the attention.

One of the other big events over the past month was Halloween. It was mid-week and on a very cold, wet day, so it was not nearly as fun as in past years. Emily made her costume this year. She went as a girl from the old days, so she wore a dress with an apron and a kerchief on her head. Somehow, I did not manage to get a photo, so you'll just have to use your imagination.

The only other event that I can think of is our parent-teacher conference that happened a couple of weeks ago. It was a really good opportunity to chat with her teacher, see what she is learning, and how she is doing in her new school. Perhaps not surprisingly, she is doing great, definitely making progress, etc. So, all is good on that front.

Now, on to Thanksgiving . . .