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Singing Time!

This was the main group for the concert on Sunday night. I was sort of an addendum to One Voice, a group from our congregation that has been ongoing for over 30 years. I served as an extra soprano for some of the higher parts, since their soprano is losing her voice a bit in recent years. I had a lot of fun rehearsing and the performing with them.

Aurelia endured 2 long rehearsals this past week, and then the pre-show stuff on Sunday, as well. She was very well-behaved, but wanted to get on stage with us all the time. We finally found her an extra mic so that she could walk around with it. Here, she is actually conducting in imitation of Marilyn (far left).

Here she is getting lined up with her microphone (mine, actually). She ran right up on stage and squeezed in to my spot – just sure she had her own part. The black blocks to the sides are pantlegs.

Busy Weekend

We had a very busy weekend. Saturday morning, Mommy went to work at the lab for about 3 hours, then we had concert rehearsal for the Christmas concert that she was singing in on Sunday night. Then, there was Gingerbread House building to squeeze it.

Sunday afternoon, Aurelia attended a birthday party for one of her classmates. It was at a local park, and she had a ball on the see-saws, slide, and then with party stuff like cupcakes and a pinata.

Gingerbread House

Marcus and I made our first gingerbread house (that we can remember, anyway) with Aurelia this weekend. She really enjoyed it, and also helped herself to quite a lot of candy in the process! We bought a nice kit from Target that had everything all ready, so she didn’t have time to get impatient. We have already eaten the little cookie guys from the “front yard.” Now, Marcus says we need “miniature chainsaws” to cut up the house so that we can eat it, too.

So excited about all of the candy!

She starts decorating while I finish applying the icing to glue it all on.

Making tough decisions about how to decorate the ridgeline.

A little fun with filtered black-and-white. This was a “stop eating the icing!” picture.

Sweet Shop and Mommy’s Boots

Aurelia’s class had a “Sweet Shop” afternoon rather than a holiday party, since there are kids from so many different countries in her class. One of those things with a secular program – don’t offend anyone with Christmas. OK. Moving on…

The idea was really cute. They had hot chocolate, cookies, and activities. There was an “open mike” set up for the kids to sing, dance, play instruments on stage. Another station was makind “cookies.” Aurelia stayed here most of the time. Finally, there was a cash register with fake money so the kids could pretend to sell their wares. The kids did actually make most of the cookies and crafts around the room during the week.

She’s making some delicious cookies!

Playing with the guitars that were out for open mic night. The stage had already been put away.

Here are some pictures of Aurelia trying to wear Mommy’s boots after the Agronomy Dept. party on Friday night. She thought it was so cool that we both wore our boots, then she wanted to wear mine when we got home. I did not try to wear hers. :)

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