a star is born

On Saturday, E and her classmates performed in a holiday show. It was held at a local church and each of the preschool classes got to perform one solo song and one song altogether. E was very excited about the whole thing, so much so that she even put her school uniform on minimal whining without an argument, despite (1) it being a Saturday, and (2) her having two beautiful Christmas outfits that she wanted to show her friends.

The show itself was really cute. E's class were barely audible above the pre-recorded music...but she did get all the hand gestures that went with her song. We took both our real camcorder and the camera for the event. However, the real camcorder only had about 30 seconds worth of batteries in it and promptly died. But we did get some footage from the camera. I won't subject you to it because it's really dark and grainy. But here are a few pics from the event.

Here's E all dressed up and ready to go!

A was not pleased with the waiting prior to the performance. Nothing that a few tic-tacs and some Mardi Gras beads couldn't overcome. That, and waving to all of her friends (aka, younger siblings) in audience. She knew more people than I did!

The Grand Finale. That's her waving with both arms, obiviously suffering from a massive case of stage fright.

The rest of the weekend was spent Christmas-ing up the house. We put up lights and a wreath outside.
We selected and put up the Christmas tree. We decorated the Christmas tree.

We even made (and ate) Rice Krispie Treat houses.

And to top off a fun-filled weekend, we put all the coats that had piled up in the Slacker coat pile on and ran around.


'Cause nothing says "Holidays" like sumo-wrestling your sister in oversized polar fleece!