A Christmas Program

Last night (December 18th) was the St. Patrick's Pre-School Christmas Program and our little Shea was going to be on stage!! In class they have been practicing for this night for a few weeks. Here at home, we practiced everyday, Shea's choice! We didn't even ask her to practice, she just wanted to. Last week she came home and told me that she and two other class mates were going to be speaking. This I knew we had to practice. Olivia, Blaise and Shea were going to welcome everyone to their Christmas Program before her class performed. I tried to get a photo of this but the lighting was awful in the gym and it did not turn out. We have it all on video. Both sets of grandparents made the trek to London to see her first performance. She was thrilled we were all there. This first photo is of her walking to the staging area. The girl beside Shea is her friend Blaise and the boy is her friend and neighbor, Matt. He's a hoot!

She did smile and wave to us (as did all the children) when she appeared on stage. It was so darn cute to see them all up there!! The first song they did was Jesus Loves Me. You could tell they were all a little nervous, they did well. Her teacher, Mrs. Nicki, said the kids voted on which songs to perform. The next one was a big crowd pleaser. The title of it is, Bean Bag Boogie. The kids had bean bags and there was music playing. They placed the bean bags where the song instructed them to, while they were booging down. One boy, Ryan, really was a good dancer and had everyone cracking up. This song was just so cute and it was so fun to watch the kids dancing. I can't wait to watch this on video. Here they are...

The boy in the tux next to Shea is our friend and neighbor, Sam. After the program we had the two of them stand in front of the Christmas trees to get future black-mail photos. Shawn video taped it and Jodi took some pictures, I hope hers turned out. If so, I'll post one. They looked like they were going to prom. It was SO cute!!! After all this we went to a local restaurant to eat dinner. We had to celebrate Shea's first on-stage performance! Shawn even interviewed her on camera, pretty funny stuff. I can't wait until her 16th birthday to pull these tapes out!

Will did get dressed in his Christmas best to attend her show. He did well, except he did not like all the clapping. He's into the phase now of not liking loud noises. Poor child, it's loud around here with the re-model on going. We sure hope everyone is enjoying the Holiday Season so far. Next week at this time, Santa will have been here. Can't wait to see what he brings!!!

Merry Christmas!