Spring Program

Benjamin had his spring performance this past Thursday.  It is put on by his day care and is the infants through 3 year olds singing through 6 or 7 songs.  The day care is at the same location as Joshy's preschool and one of the older classes at the school decorated the stage as their art project.  Ben sat front and center, which was great, since he spent the majority of his time just staring at the crowd like this:

And this:

But as soon as motions got involved, he was sparked into action and singing along with the song.

As soon as they said "Itsy Bitsy Spider" he had his spider fingers ready to go.  Same with Baby Bumble Bee and This Little Light of Mine.  Nothing is more fun that shouting "No!" every time the teacher threatens your light with a bushel.  The part of the program with the motionless rhymes was just not enough to engage a boy who usually was in bed a half hour prior.  At the end of the show, Ben hopped up to walk off the stage until his chocolate radar went off and he saw the teacher with the sweets out of the corner of his eye and plopped back down until the candy bag made it his way.  When it comes to candy, this boy ain't playing.

The most adorable part occurred prior to the show when Joshy was eating dinner and one of his classmates, Sylvia, came up to say hello.  Her first comment was that Joshy was eating a hot dog just like her, to which he said, "Does it look like I am eating a hot dog?  Nope.  I'm eating a sun." and then repeated with some other random stuff.  I just smiled at the little boy who has picked up his mama's humor.  Tonight we went to eat and while Ben was jumping on the booth seat singing 5 Little Monkeys, Joshy, John and I were talking about names for Jessi's baby girl.  I asked if Sylvia was a good name for a girl and he looked at me with this wry smile and said "Yeeesss".  Then John suggested Autumn to which Joshy replied, "Autumn isn't even a word".  We then covered the alternate word for fall and when John suggested it again this time Joshy still shook his head with a "A person definitely can not be Autumn."  We also ruled out Ann but he was okay with Mary and just gave me his "you're being silly" look when I was carrying around imaginary baby Pineapple.  If only he knew that was one removed pine away from an actual baby's name...