Christmas Concert with Toddlers

Possibly the funniest thing that's happened all of 2011: Esther and Sylvia's Christmas Concert at their daycare.

Their daycare happens to only have young kids right now, even though it is supposed to be ages one through 5 1/2. Esther is the oldest by a whole year, which is why she is going to start at a new school with some peers after Christmas.

So that meant that what the daycare teachers had to work with for this particular concert was ten kids aged 1 1/2 to 2 1/2, plus Esther, who doesn't exactly think it is fun to sing for others in a concert type setting. (mostly she doesn't like it because she doesn't like being told what to do. If she had come up with the idea by herself, she would steal the show. That is just Esther).

So anyway, here we were, all the parents, sitting waiting for these young kids to come out and sing, sure it was just going to be the cutest thing ever. The door opens, the kids start to come out, and then the inevitable happens: one kid sees all these grown-ups staring at her and she starts WAILING. That starts off a chain reaction, and within, say, 15 seconds, at least eight other kids start WAILING. Meanwhile the teachers are all cheerfully singing the Christmas songs they have been practicing together for the past two weeks.

And, as Niklas and I predicted, the ONLY kid (out of the 11) to REALLY get into it and sing loudly and do ALL the hand motions is.......drumroll: SYLVIA THE SUPERSTAR! She stole the show! She loves to be on stage and if she could have, she would have held a microphone for effect. That's just Sylvia!

(I can't post photos containing any of the other kids, so just this one will have to do!)