Drew’s 3rd grade music program has finally happened!!  Thank goodness…because he’s been fretting about it for weeks!!  Our little 3rd grader is really not into the musical arts, so asking him to learn 9 songs and get up on stage and sing is not really top on his list. You will see by his expression, that he’d rather read the encyclopedia than do this…

The theme of the program centered around the solar system and Saturn losing one of her moons…Calypso.  There were a few other numbers thrown in that included farm animals and Star Wars that I’m still scratching my head over, but I’m not an elementary school music teacher so I suppose I should be quiet!  What I cannot be quiet about is how crazy the spectators are to show up at the school almost an hour before show time to stand outside waiting to file in and get a seat.  It’s crazy!  And you wonder why I know this…well the truth is…I was there too, parked front row and hanging out in my car!!  BUT it really wasn’t on purpose, I swear!  Our plan was to go there straight from Morgan’s basketball game and it finished early so we just had lag time!  There was even a mass email that went out from the school that the doors wouldn’t open until 6:10pm but sure enough, people were standing in front of those LOCKED doors at 5:40pm.  You’d think we were trying to be first in line to get some spectacular tickets to something – nope – just the 3rd grade music program at Manchester Park Elementary.

Here are two youtube clips of the last number.  Before you shut it down – just remember this is pretty impressive for Drewy to get up there.  And not only that, this was the only time I could actually see him throughout the program.  Most of the time he was right in front of a music stand and not visible from the seats!  see that stupid music stand…grrrrr (kids…I’m sorry for saying stupid)

He was assigned to be a ‘glow stick’ dancer in the last song and the minute I finally actually saw his sweet face, they turned off the lights to jump around and dance! awesome.

They are “lighting up the night” by the way!!  This song was his favorite of all of them and I think they did a great job.  It cannot be easy to get all of the 3rd grade classes to learn and rehearse all of this in a short time frame.

By being persistent and climbing over little kids sitting on the floor, Brian caught a few pics…thank goodness!

Drewy, I could not be more proud of you for this performance!  I know that music is not ‘your thing’ and you did a great job learning all of the songs, following directions, and trying your hardest to be positive about it.  So maybe you are not going to be the next Justin Timberlake, but you are certainly cuter and the best glow stick dancer around!

Love you to pieces,

Mommy