Last week Ella had her Christmas concert with her pre-school. The 4-year-old class is the oldest in the school thus, they get to do their concert at night (ooOOOooo) and they get to have a wardrobe change and present the nativity scene. This was new and exciting after 2 years of a daytime show with no nativity story (they're lucky to get the 2 and 3 year olds to stay on stage when the sing, let alone act out Luke 2!)
I had anxiety fun putting together Ella's sheep costume in the preceding days. I ended up finding a furry, white hat with ear flaps that was on clearance for $3.59 and even though it was 18-24month size, it fit her!! She has lots of hair but apparently a tiny little head (or as my MIL suggested, the hat was on clearance because the size was mislabeled!). Ella was not satisfied with the hat's flaps so I made some felt ears to pin onto it, pinned a tail on a white, velour jogging suit and she was ready to Baa!
As expected, the concert was heart-meltingly cute and the kids were hilarious-including the one who belted out the lyrics loud enough to carry all 30 kids, the one who put his sweater over his head for most of one song, and one of the "3 kings" who was wearing a Burger King crown. I'm so glad I have another kid who will allow me access to preschool programs for years to come-it's great, free entertainment! I always leave smiling :-)
Ella and a few of her best buddies from school
Check out Ella waving to us! So cute!
Ella's class plus the other group of 4's
Ella's cheering section :-)(Notice the row of parents in the back with cameras ready-that was only about a third of the cameras in action in the room!)
My little sheep is in the front row!
And here's a video of one of the songs they performed. My Aunt said it sounded like herding cats so take that into advisement :-) To a mother's ear it sounds wonderful :-)
