Musical!

Here is the elementary school stage, empty and lit. Parents are jammed into the auditorium, waiting for the annual third-grade musical to begin!

And here are the kids filing in and taking their places. See Benny? Striped shirt?

Now do you see Benny?

Let me just say that the musical was wonderful, and fun, and SO GOOD. And Benny did an AWESOME JOB!

The kids sang a spooky Halloween song where the lights were turned out and they all used small flashlights to illuminate their faces and make swirly light patterns in the dark. At the end of the song they all suddenly screamed BOO and it scared us!

There were many songs and they were each wonderful. The kids had hand and arm movements for all of them. They must have worked so hard to put on this show.

The songs were a lot of fun and at the end they sang a very moving song called You Are Our Heroes, written as a tribute to the people in the armed services. Listening to their voices sing, "What can you say to a hero? We can say, thank you......." moved me to tears.

And have you ever seen so many cameras in one place? This is what an auditorium full of parents with cameras looks like, two minutes after the show is over and the lights come up. Photo op!

Benny did so well and I am proud of him. And it seems like only last year that Sam was in HIS third grade musical, but it was actually two years ago already. Hard to believe how fast time is passing by.