Last night was Wm's last elementary school concert! And it was terrible, so I'm glad! They had us crammed like sardines into the high school gym - sitting on bleachers and sweating like pigs. My butt is never going to be the same! But, Wm did great. This is his big spring concert - with 6 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and a high school. We dropped him off at 5pm and they have rehearsal and a potluck dinner - then the concert starts at 7pm. So, it's a glorious night for us. Steve and I went out to a nice dinner, sans Wm, and then just showed up to the concert (as uncomfortable as it was!) We are all pretty tired today, though, since it threw off our usual bedtime routine. Wm actually, inexplicably, quietly wept himself to sleep - unable to actually verbalize what was wrong. Exhaustion!
The middle/high schools played Kashmir. Wm knows the song and was very impressed. I told him I would give him $100 if he loudly sang the vocals, but he refused. Instead, he had to awkwardly huddle along the wall waiting to sit down with the middle school (Wm got to play with the 6th grade strings!)
And here is Wm, perched like a scrawny bird of prey upon his chair during his performance. My conductor would not have stood for such a lack of decorum and professionalism during a concert! I laughed at him later and he insisted it wasn't that bad. So I showed him the video and he was like, "OK - I do look bad." Here he is, sort of hidden behind a standing chubby kid at first, but then revealed:
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