Owen is shown dancing in his christmas musical at the school. Thursday the kinders and grade 1 students put on “December Nights”. Owen had an acting role as the Chief Mate and along with a first grade student, they were narrators for the program. The elementary music teacher compared Owen to a young Robert Redford! I would tend to agree, of course. He memorized a lot of lines and was a cool customer in a packed house of expectant parents. Congratulations Owen!!!! You did a wonderful job!
The musical was very good. The stage was a yellow submarine (Owen sang “yellow sumbarine”) and the children were dressed as pirates. Kinder and Grade 1 have around 60 kids so it was a challenge to get them all on stage and a starring role. The school is really lacking a proper auditorium! The parents and kids were quite crowded. Lower School events feel so crowded, such as the Halloween night. They definitely need more room. I uploaded several photos and am in the process of putting up video of the performance. Please check them out in my flickr.com account. Oliver’s performance is next week. He got an early start by running up on stage in the classic elementary school Christmas show style, when the little brother or sister storms the stage! I was preparing my camera and a girl next to me pokes me on the knee and I look up to see Oliver trying to grab the microphone from his brother. Hilarious!I ran up and got him off the stage.
We have our Christmas tree up. We bought a fake one from Home Center here in Belgrade. Ornaments have been all over the house as Ocean and Oliver both take them off and play with them. I can see why my Dad put the television on top of large wooden box when we were kids. We then could not break the dials.
Ocean this week was battling a cold. She kept vomiting in the night due to choking on mucous. Nadia had to have Ocean sleep between us. Ocean kept kicking me in the head. It was a rough week for both of us with limited sleep. Finally, we called the local private clinic, Bel Medic and they have a children’s doctor that make house calls. Brilliant! No more waiting in the crowded room with sick and crying kids. It is amazing how much better Nadia and Alejandra feel after they see the doctor. I think the doctor does more good for them than the children. I don’t think there is much a doctor can do for a virus, but they can do a lot for an upset and worried Latina mother.
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