Mother Goose Day

At Little Man's school they don't celebrate Halloween, but the first grade does celebrate Mother Goose.  What better time to do that than during Halloween?  The kids had been learning numerous nursery rhymes and songs over the past weeks and each child was to learn a rhyme and dress up as a character from that rhyme.  My Little Man chose Yankee Doodle because it's easy and because we have a horse from his cowboy costume a few years ago that still fits.  We stuck a feather in his Woody hat and voila!

We've been practicing Yankee Doodle for about a month so my little princess had to get in on the action of learning it...she likes to say "stuck a feather in his hat and called it rock-a-pony!"  She gets mad if you try to correct her too!  What a nut!

I was a little nervous for Riley because he despises public speaking and won't sing a note in front of others...in preschool Miss Donna (his music and art teacher) use to get so frustrated with him because he'd sit there with his mouth shut and not sing at all!

Well, today he had to say his rhyme in front of his classmates AND all the parents, grandparents and siblings of the first grade class.  He's got a big class...26 kids.  So you can imagine how many parents were there with their camera batteries charged up!  He did so well.  I was so proud of him.  When he's nervous you can't hear him very well - he mumbles if he's not confident, so when it was his turn, if you didn't have a front row seat, you might not have heard his rhyme.

See what I mean:

Don't you love listening to them scream, I mean sing, their little hearts out?  They are so cute!  Wish you could bottle their energy!

Addition: Here are a couple of pictures I just found on a different camera from that day.