Holiday Performances

We've had a lot of them lately, from piano recitals to school performances, there's been a lot of acting around these parts.

Friday morning Ellie's class did a performance of the play "Bob the Goofy Reindeer," with Ellie in a major starring role as Santa. She did great - knew all of her lines, delivered them well, was the cutest Santa I've seen in a long time.

It was also nice in that the performance was just her class, so it wasn't crazy or packed.

Because an hour later, ALL the first graders were doing their holiday performance, in which the various animals explain to the moose about the various winter holidays. Took me forever to find Adam when he came out on stage - he was smack dab in the center, as a caroler.

Now everyone is out of school and off of work until the 6th, which will be nice. We've already had several holiday parties, with several more to go, and then hopefully we'll get some museum trips in, some good relaxing, some bike riding and YMCA visiting and lunches with friends.

Before everything wrapped up, Ellie had her first holiday piano recital. She was practicing for a good two months on her pieces, and performed them better than I've heard before. She was so pleased with herself when she finished, and we're very proud of how her hard work paid off.

Adam still has one more semester of the group piano class before he starts private lessons. He told us during Ellie's concert that next year he'd like to play Jingle Bells. But then also had a chance to show Santa his skills during the Parmordsen party last night. Please watch to the end to see his celebration dance.