Lucy's Pre-K class presented the Christmas story last week for their parents and the younger kids in the school. Lucy was asked to sing in a quartet that was responsible for singing everybody's favorite Christmas carol, "Little Donkey". Never heard of it? Well, that's a shame. Even more a shame that you didn't get to listen to it and all of its 1 1/2 minutes of glory nearly a million times each day for 3 weeks while she practiced in the living room, often adding a microphone to her rehearsal. Harper became so accustomed to the practice time that she knew the song's name "Little Honkey" and knew all the motions and dances not only to that song, but all of the others in the program as well, hence the photo of her performing the dance moves in the pew at the program, while her big sister had stage fright and did not in this particular instance.
Actually, Lucy did great, even though singing in front of a large crowd isn't really her thing, she mustered the courage and did it, even adding a smile here or there or shouting out some of the lyrics particularly loud. The toughest part for her was wearing the skirt and sweater that I required for such an event. No worries, she quickly kicked off the dress shoes moments after the performance and strapped on her sneakers for the rest of the school day and her skirt hit the floor before I had even gotten the little guys into the house when we got home. She was off to put on her "gymnastics pants and a UK tshirt". Little donkey, yes. An ass in a skirt, that she could not be a part of any longer.
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