Some School Christmas Stuff

First off, the school and community Christmas Program was last Saturday night.  It was really good.  Weston played the clarinet, his parents did a piano duet and then a violin and piano duet.  Spencer and Kate participated in a musical play which was great, and Ezra and the 2 other kindergarteners did 2 little songs, which were super cute.  Actually I was laughing so hard that I was crying.  Ezra is so funny. He is quite the drama king, really; a little ham.  The 2 girls in kindergarten with Ezra are super tall (they are as tall or taller than Kate), and Ezra is not the tallest 5-year-old.  And both of the girls had little heals on their shoes, making Ezra look even shorter.

Here is the Kindergarten class doing their part:

At the end of the program, all of the school kids were on stage singing Silent Night, doing the nativity.  Ezra got a really painful look on his face, then started moving his legs back and forth and then it was totally obvious that he had to go to the bathroom.  Weston and I were debating whether or not to go get him off the stage in the middle of the song to take him.  We know Ezra and know that he waits until the last minute, and then 50% of the time it is too late.  

Ezra looked dire, so Weston went up and got him and took him.  3 minutes later Ezra was back on stage singing another song with everyone.  Then about another 3 minutes after that he got that painful look on his face again, and then put his hand on his rear!  Hello!  I was in the front row and motioned for him to come to me.  He scooted off the stage with his hand on his rear and then said to me, kind of loud, "I pooped in my pants."  Ahhh!!!  I was so embarrassed.  I had Zoe in one arm and pulled Ezra toward the bathroom where Weston was still standing.  He took him into the bathroom and like 5 minutes later Ezra ran back out on stage to finish his part.  Holy toledo this boy is a die hard.  

Aside from Ezra's bathroom issues in the last 10 minutes of the program, Spencer was starting into an asthma attack and was coughing and sneezing and his teaher came and asked me for an inhaler, which I didn't have.  Also one boy got nauseus and went off the stage and the teacher grabbed the trash can and ran him outside, and that boy's brother got a bloody nose.  Pretty exciting stuff.  

Today was the last day of school this calendar year.  They had the Christmas party at school so we got to go to it.  Here are a few pictures of it: 

All 5 of my littles are in this shot (above).  All 3 of my school kids are at their desks.  I love that their desks are so close together and that they love having their younger siblings with them.

I love that the school is so sunny and cheery inside.  The prisms hanging in the window make rainbows in the classroom.

The view outside (those silver hoop things are part of their miniature greenhouse):

One of the library workers volunteered to hold Zoe for me so that I could take pictures.

Ezra loved loved loved his gift.

It is 12:02 a.m. which means that it is now officially December 21st, 2011, which means that Weston and I have officially been married for...  

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