Eat your heart out American Idol

Jill reports:

Aidan “graduated” from his first year of preschool; the three-year-olds classes did a show based on various nursery rhymes. Aidan rocked the part of “one of the kings” in the “Humpty Dumpty” vignette. One kid dressed all in white came out and fell onto the stage. All of the kings came and reached down to touch him and pantomime trying to “put him back together again.” Then all the kings stopped. Well, all but one, who continued grappling with the Humpty until the teacher had to forcibly remove him. I later said to Aidan, “You were just sure you could fix him, weren’t you?” He replied, “Everyone else stopped so soon!”

Then the three classes stood in positions around the stage to sing a lengthy A-B-C song. 44 kids stood still, hands at sides, and sang. One kid, stage left, danced around, doing high kicks, clapping his hands, and wildly boogieing down the entire song.

(We have the kid who just gots to boogie, and that is who he is, and that is what we’re going to let him be.)

Then in the afternoon it was time for the special production of E-I-E-I-Oops!, presented by the after-school drama class. Mack did a great job as The Farmer in the Dell, enunciated his lines beautifully, and even managed to say the words “this bovine disaster” so they could be understood.

Total minutes of actual performance, both plays combined: about 27 minutes.

Total after-play cookies consumed by the three kids [including 14-month-old Reid]: about 27 cookies.