A school performance

Today was the day of the rescheduled school performance. It being Zoe's first, Chloe and I were VERY excited. We arrived at the school to find Zoe getting prepared for her grande entrance. All week we had been trying to determine what her actual role would be, but our queries were dismissed with a role of the eyes and a "je ne sais PAS!". It was another hot day, and it seemed like an eternity before the little kids were due to perform. There was also almost no seating, and it was a struggle to get even a peek at her. In the lead up to the little kid performance, alex was getting pretty antsy, so Chloe and I had to take turns taking care of him. Some time during this kid shuttling, one of the kids (probably Zoe) filled our water bottle with dirt. Chloe unfortunately did not notice, and took a deep pull of mud water: refreshing! Zoe's class perfomance consisted of holding up cards that I could not see (because of the difficult viewing conditions), but which chloe tels me had the names of painters, writers etc, and then picking up instruments and doing some dancing. It was very, very cute. At one point, the kids put their instruments in a little circle before a dance routine, and then returned to pick them up. Zoe's instrument was a mini guitar, and a little troublemaking boy (who had earlier been hitting another boy in the head with his card) tried to steal Zoe's guitar! Zoe, however has been training her iron grip because of toy competition with Alex, and the guitar was soon firmly in her hand. I think the boy might have started crying at this point, but I didn't have much sympathy. Here is Zoe, with a stalwart look on her face, guitar in hand, flushed with the sweet taste of victory.


And a few more of the performance