The choir show: Starry, Starry Night

Lilly was in her very first Cherub Choir musical this weekend.  She was a chicken...can't you tell with those bright yellow feathers!?  (All the chickens were supposed to wear white dresses or something white). 

In my opinion (and a few agree with me) Lilly stole the show.  Her smile was priceless.  It was like she was flirting with Will for the first part of the show because she kept smiling at him and reacting to him enjoying the show.  She yawned two times in the second part, I think.

You can watch the whole thing (broken into two parts below for a total of about 30 minutes).  You can also just watch a few short clips of Lilly "singing" along. 



Here's a video of Lilly entering the stage at the beginning of the show.



Here's a video of the opening number.




Sophia, was Mary's donkey named Clip Clop, and she had a 5 speaking lines that she aced!  Sophia was supposed to wear either brown, black or grey and they were all supposed to wear Sunday dresses so we had to go with black because that's all she had in the color palette.  It's not my favorite dress at all, but she really likes it for some reason and she was comfortable in it..  She wore a fringe mane in her ponytail as her costume, but you couldn't see it at all.

The night before the show as I was tucking Sophia into bed she admitted that she had stage fright and I could tell she was going to work herself up into some sort of whiny cry.  I told her that there was NO WAY she could possibly have stage fright because nobody gets it the night before!  Impossible!  -- She actually believed me.

The morning (Sunday) of the show came and went and she never mentioned another word about stage fright.

But, I have to say, she really did her part great.  So many ladies told me that she did a great job when I was at a meeting earlier this morning.  I'm so proud of her!  And I'm proud of Lilly too, especially because she doesn't care much for Cherub Choir and actually complains that she doesn't like it.

Just yesterday she and I talked about her taking a drawing class or some sort of art class.  She's always coloring and stenciling and drawing on things, including closet doors!









This is PART ONE of the show taken by my friend Jen.  Her children were two of the cows if you can't tell, but those are the girls that Sophia recites her lines with.



This is PART TWO

Don't the girls look pretty in this close up shot?

Ella's party

Lilly was invited to a holiday party yesterday afternoon from 2-4.  I was thrilled when we opened up the envelope and it was an invite for just Lilly.  She's been left behind a few times lately with all the Girl Scout events that Sophia has been going to and it was finally Lilly's turn to enjoy an outing with mom!  (Sophia also enjoyed a walk to the park with Will - lucky girl!)

Ella, a little girl from her class, invited all the girls in the class, but only 3 were able to join in the fun, Lia and Olivia (both were in her class last year too).  Lilly had a really fun time.  It didn't take her long to warm up to the group and then she was off and running and I had to basically beg her to leave.  Ella has an older sister in first grade at a different school than ours, but Ella's mom suggested that we might have a playdate.  We'll see.  We're so busy and so are they with gymnastics/dance/and other activities...

I was one of the moms that stayed and was able to help with a few of the crafts.  Each little girl placed her white handprint on a blue ornament as a keepsake.  I love it and Lilly immediately placed on her Christmas tree when we got home.  The girls also made foam door hangers, foam snowmen ornaments and bags of reindeer food.  

Bonus:  I really liked all the other moms too....so it was fun for both of us. 

Home Depot Workshop

I organized a Girl Scout outing to Home Depot this week so the girls could each make a bird house.  We're talking a serious bird house -- made a real wood -- which needed to be hammered and screwed!  I had both girls with me so I rushed from one step to the next and somehow managed to finish both houses before most people were finished with their one.


Sophia did some of the hammering herself, but Lilly couldn't because her wrist really wasn't strong enough to lift the hammer.

Here's what the finished products look like.  This is a picture of the girls in my troop who were able to come.  A few had to miss.   

The Three Amigos

Sophia, Lilly and Summer before going to school one day. 

Visits with Santas

Sophia and I had a "girls night out" as she calls it.  It was last Friday night and I needed her help in picking out her angel tree gift for an 8 year old girl.  The girl requested a long sleeved shirt and/or sweater.  So, we got her both.  Sophia enjoyed helping me pick it out too. I also had to find Lilly's angel tree gift for an 8 month old boy so we hit a few stores looking for his request.  After we were done shopping she asked me if she could visit Santa.  Of course!!!

Here's a picture of her visit with Santa at the mall.

One day this past week when Lilly got home from school I took her to visit with Santa at the mall so she could have her photo taken. She told Santa that she wants the McKenna America Girl Doll.  (Thank goodness I had already ordered it for Sophia before she changed her mind to a karaoke machine because the dolls are on back-order until after Christmas.)


Here's Lilly's photo with Santa.

This morning we attended the Pancakes with Santa breakfast at Sophia's school.  We each at a pancake, gathered up some reindeer food for Christmas Eve night, and Sophia wrote Santa a wish list which included on the very last line:  1 of everything!

Right before we left Sophia decided to pose for another picture with Santa.  This time Lilly was too frightened to even say hello!