Preschool Pageantry

So, we’re lounging around the house on Thursday night, getting excited to watch the latest edition of “The Office”, when BriAnne gets a call on her cell phone from Amanda in our ward (whose daughter goes to the same preschool as Katelyn).  She’s wondering if we are planning on attending the Christmas program being put on by the preschool kids the next night (Friday night). Uh…what Christmas program??? Apparently, the kids have been practicing quite a while for this event, and Katelyn even had a part in it that she had to memorize lines for.  We had no idea! Somehow, we didn’t get the memo, and Katelyn never said anything about it (and if you know Katelyn, she talks about EVERYTHING with EVERYONE). When BriAnne asked Katelyn about it, her response was “um, I’m going to be feeling sick tomorrow night.”  “Well, why didn’t you say anything to us about it Katelyn, we’re really excited to go!” “I don’t know, I remember that I just forgot.”  After talking about how fun it is going to be, she changed her mind and decided she wanted to go. So, go we did and it was actually pretty entertaining – not really the program itself but watching a dozen or so 4 year olds wandering around aimlessly, screaming their lines, picking their noses, making faces, and anything and everything else 4 year olds do when they have a captive audience. Unfortunately, we thought our digital camera was in the diaper bag (where it usually is)…but it wasn’t.  So we had to make do with my crappy cell phone camera but here is Katelyn in her seat on the improvised “stage”:

Trying to keep Ethan contained when there were so many things to play on proved to be a BIG chore:

The program itself was maybe 1/2 hour and involved the kids singing some songs and some very basic skits. We got there extra early so we could take a tour of the place, which was kinda cool - the school is held in the same building as a gymnastics school (gymnastics for big people, that is) but they also have an area setup for little kids with tiny gymnastics rings and bar thingys which they get to use via a free once a week gymnastics lesson that was part of the deal.

Anyway, it was fun.  A special thanks to my parents (Grandma Deedee and Poppy) who came to support Katelyn as well.  It was also fun to bring Matt and Bonnie Park’s daughter with us who we were babysitting for the evening. Saturday proved to be fun with extra kids as well as we watched BriAnne’s sister’s daughter this morning and my brother’s little boy tonight.  All the kids were very good and it’s made for a fun weekend.