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Holiday Concert

S&Z's preschool held a combined holiday concert for the 3-year-old morning and afternoon classes. I have been so excited about the concert, and was very thankful when both kids proved to be healthy enough to be able to attend. We invited Derek's parents to come up to Boston for the concert on Thursday morning.


In total there were about 40 3-year-olds performing! I think it took longer to line them up than it did to perform the six song program :)


S&Z were positioned in the middle of all the kids, and they looked like deer in headlights for most of the songs. The head preschool teacher isn't particularly musically inclined, so the background music came from an iPod which was positioned at the opposite end of the room from where S&Z stood. Some kids sang along and some kids cried. S&Z didn't sing any of the songs, but they looked around curiously throughout the program.



The kids were given LED votive candles for "This Little Light of Mine".


There was a little reception after the concert, and S&Z mostly just played with the candles which they got to take home.


My parents arrived today and I am sooooo looking forward to having 10 glorious days off from work!

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