christmas "concerts"

So the kids had their first holiday concerts at school this week.  Well.. sort of.  Here's Colin's class getting ready to sing.  He's on the far right in the front row...

all smiles pre-performance

this crew looks like a handful...

charlotte was intrigued by this performance...

It was ... a total trainwreck.  An adorable trainwreck, but nonetheless...  

one side of the class was a little more "exuberant" on their timing.. rendering most of the songs a round between one side of the stage and the other.  

poor colin got stage fright when he saw "all the people smiling at him", rendering him unable to sing most of the songs, on account of having "too much slobber in his mouth that made me have to keep swallowing."  haha.  I've been there buddy.  Poor guy.

Charlotte's was the following night.  Do I have footage of that event?  No I do not.  Charlotte was appalled that we would have the nerve to bring her back to daycare after she'd been there all day.  She did not want to be put down, and made her thoughts on joining her friends at the front of the room very clearly known.  So while her friends "performed," Charlotte sat on mommy's lap in the audience.  Meanwhile, Colin decided he'd quite like to perform that night, belting out songs from the audience over the poor toddlers.  

So not a great year for the Hanson performers.  Maybe next year.  I remain convinced that both of them are dramatic enough to someday perform on stage.