Holiday Program

Last thursday Brode had his first Holiday Program at day care! The "upstairs kids" or the older kids (3,4,5) all put on a holiday program for parents. Grandma Beth and I went to the morning show and Grandpa and Grandma went to the afternoon show.

This year's theme was "Love, Peace, Hope and Joy". All the kids were dressed in pink, purple, white, and limegreen. They set up the stage in the gym with presents and Christmas lights. Brode's class started dressed as chefs preparing the holiday feast and singing a "Ha Ha Holiday" song with bells. Brode gets embarassed very easily so he stood at the end with his pan full of cookies in front of his face. Grandma and Grandpa said Brode was the little boy everyone would be talking about that night at home because he had his fingers up his nose during their show!

(That's him there on the end with the white hat, green apron, and cookie sheet in front of his face)

After his class the 4 year old class sang two songs, but they were pretty distracted and the boys began fighting and there were jingle bells flying everywhere. The 5 year olds finished with two fun songs. They all sang loudly and danced, putting on quite a good show!

When all the groups were done they did a finale together, singing a Peace on Earth song and signing the words as well. Brode was better through this one and actually sang and motioned quite a bit. It was fun to go and see all the kids and they were excited to see all of us in the crowd!

This past Tuesday the class also went to a local retirement community and sang and had a small Christmas party with them. His teachers gave Brode rave reviews saying he didn't have his hands by his face and he sang loudly. Brode was VERY proud of himself (I was VERY sad I missed it).

We will definetaly remember his first holiday program, and here is to many more to come!

(I didn't get a good picture of his class because I was tying to videotape at the same time. The videos are being stubborn but I'll get them loaded!)