Extrovert

Gillian is a born and bred performer. She is enough of a ham to be like me and want peoples' attention even if the actual act ties her in nervous knots, but enough like Sean to be very reserved and focused when she is up in front of people (ie, not a showman, like her crazy little sister). There have been no shortage of opportunities to let her "look at me!"ness shine on as the school year comes to a close.

The first end-of-year performance was the Spring Musical. I adore the music teacher, who worked herself to death to put together a wonderful idea and get the kids ready for a true production. Another arty mama and I painted the backdrop (24 ft canvas-by far my biggest painting ever) for the show, which turned out pretty well (mock up of Van Gogh's "The Bedroom"):

                                                                      Setting up/decorating

I spent most of that Wednesday helping decorate, but for all my volunteerism I got reserved 3rd row center seats, which-because it always ends up being standing room only-is worth its weight in gold.

Preschool performed Do Re Me, which we didn't record because we had a technical issue, but we did get the second song (which was a hot mess and full of nose picking for Addie!). Kindergarten performed "I won't grow up" from Peter Pan and "Tomorrow" from Annie. The entire show was a boy dreaming about being on Broadway, so all the song the various grades performed were show tunes.


Last weekend, Gillian had her group violin recital. This, luckily, is what Addie did during the very long wait for Gillian's group to perform (she was the best behaved 3 year old in the place, maybe for the first time ever!).




Gillian will miss out on the solo recitals because we will be in Florida on the date that was selected (after we made travel plans), but she is more than happy with one recital (though you'll recall how handsomely she made out from her recital last year). But here she is playing a Minuet-how proud were we? Well, look how I took over the student seating as soon as they left so I could be close to the stage to record her (obnoxious, I agree, but a girl has to do what she has to do).


And finally, Gillian has been taking an after-school Spanish enrichment class from the Little Linguists Academy from Señora Santiago. She does have Spanish twice a week in school, but this is extra just because I wanted to mix up her after-school time in a constructive way (she also took Art for All for two sessions after school this year). Anyway, she *loves* spanish!!! Here is her last performance of the year!!


We plan to enroll Addie at the music school in the fall. It will be interesting to see what kind of performer she turns out to be!