Nutcracker Rehearsal

Today was our first dress rehearsal for the Nutcracker and it went so well! We have 89 kids in this production, so getting them all to do what they are supposed to do and be where they are supposed to be has been.... um... interesting! The first picture is of my 8 to 12 year old class who will be dancing the Arabian, the next is of my 6 to 8 year olds who are the Spanish dancers, the third picture is of my 4 -5 year old class, my little Oriental dumplings. The girls above are in my 3 year old class - aren't they adorable?????? This is how a mom of 6 boys gets to get into all of the girlie stuff!

Getting Ready for Christmas

Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday I was dressing the boys up in Halloween Costumes and now tomorrow is already December! We've already gottten the tree up (on Thanksgiving), the stockings hung (last night), and all those miserable (um I mean wonderful) singing characters are up. Batteries will come out tonight (check!).

And.... we are ALMOST done with Christmas shopping - yeah! A very good thing since we will be slammed with Nutcracker rehearsals and performance for the next 2 weeks. We had our photo session on Wednesday, so I will post pics from that soon. I don't have any of me in my costume yet because (Drumroll please) - I lost weight and have to have the costume taken in! WOO HOO!