Ivo's 1st Xmas Show

EXCITING!!!

HILARIOUS!!!

HEARTMELTY!!!

AWESOMENESS.

The 3-4 Xmas Show and Party was today at 2pm. Wonderful performance. Incredible use of space. Between "80 and 100" people were gill-to-gill in a standing-room-only classroom. The people had been ordered to bring dried goods, canned foods and/or sundries for a family the school had adopted. They had been ordered, too, to bring a plate of loveliness to share. That was nice. So tons of stuff, tons of folks. Kids dressed up and standing on tables at the front of the classroom. Bouncing. Spinning. They had made all the decorations for the tree, of whic I have no pic - yet...

The kids marched in and up onto the tables. 3 kids had to stand in front - and by the 2nd song, these kids had had it. Ivo was on a table standing next to his friend Lindsay. For the first song, Jingle Bells - which Ivo has been practicing a lot at home - so much so that Burl sings, "HEY!" at the end of all stanzas - all the kids sang out loud and proud. They shook and jangled. Ivo was super loud and just about half a meter behind for the first half of the song. He sounded good. You could definitely pick out his voice! Then his hat fell over his face, totally obscuring his vision. For the rest of the show, Ivo's hat was pretty low. His spirits, HIGH, his voice and moves, all there, less bouncy on hat patrol. The kids were all great - a lot of personalities on stage!

The kids also sang Rudolph, Twinkle twingle everygreen-prettiest tree I've ever seen, a song about there are no parking spot, can weplease go home?, Merry Xmas, and then they tricked one member of every child's enourage to go up and do the chicken dance. Let's just say, Ryan has never heard of the chicken dance, so you can imagine...

Hee hee hee:)

Burl liked the show. He likes going to Ivo's school and playing with toys and kids.