My Apologies....

to the children who live here. They actually stepped up to the plate last night and did fairly well in their Spring Music Program. Mike and I expected the worst, sat in the last row, and carefully stowed our brown paper bags with the eye holes cut out in case it all went south in a hurry. Now please do not judge and say that we are terrible parents, setting expectations too low, blah blah blah. Mike and I have suffered through many public events, watching our goofballs in action. It is taking it's toll on our sanity.

Matty's group performed first. And, despite not actually singing a single word, and playing with his plastic dolphin toy the entire time on stage, he was...respectable. His dolphin made circles for "The Wheels on the Bus," but he did not run off the stage. He did not cry. A couple of times, he put his dolphin on his head, but all in all, we will take it! Here he is, happily NOT singing, chewing on his dolphin.

During the three-year-old performance, this little girl turned her back to the crown, pulled her frilly dress over her head, and pouted. HA! Ours would not be the worst kids there!
Then for the four-year-olds. Mitch did...fine! Now, he did yawn approximately 37 times while on stage. Apparently he found the whole performance somewhat boring. And he did not do many of the motions, but, really, he was hampered by injury. Just prior to leaving for the school, he had an unfortunate run-in with an apple pealer. He lost. He ran upstairs to put on some Band-Aids. While only one finger was bleeding, he got blood on every other finger, and so he just put Band-Aids everywhere. Black Band-Aids. Black Pirate Band-Aids. In his defense, every time he tried to do a hand motion, he would get distracted by his 14 black pirate Band-Aids. Here is some footage.

I was so excited to see the boy next to Mitch pull his arms inside his shirt and proceed to flop his empty sleeves around! Yes! We could hold our heads up high and claim the kids as our own, not plead, "We're not red-heads! He's not ours!" Way to go, boys!