Move to the Music

GRANTED AN AUDIENCE: This morning was one of those rare and much-appreciated opportunities to sit in on Bee's ballet class.

It was a pleasure, as usual. She has made such progress these past few months - it's starting to really look like ballet!

I think what's impressing me even more than her plies and chasses is the way she's really paying attention in class, keeping her ears open and her mouth closed. Annabelle is, shall we say, a very VERBAL child. For her to be quiet for 45 minutes during waking hours is pretty much a miracle. :)

After they went through came everyone's favorite part - the free dance where they don't have to follow their teacher's instruction.


In the car on the way to ballet, Annabelle was planning her free dance choreography. :)
As soon as ballet was over, we put some wax on the tracks and slid on out of there - we had a concert to get to!

ROCK SHOW: Don't know how you spent your lunch hour, but for the MPA student body, it was a full blown rock-n-roll extravaganza - at Seattle City Hall, of all places!
The show is part of the city's Seattle Presents series.

Today's headliner (and only liner) was Caspar Babypants, the brainchild of Chris Ballew, who is famous for his years spent as the lead singer of The Presidents of the United States of America (a band Rick and Ken used to listen to a lot when they were kids).

PUSA's upbeat, poppy, quirky music and easy-to-understand lyrics were always kid friendly. Case in point: Rick, Ken, CeeJ, Bee and countless others love their song "Peaches." In fact "Peaches" was what the big boys played with drummer friend Kyle at their World Premiere in a South Ridge Elementary talent show about, oh, 15 years ago!) But I digress. ...

Caspar Babypants is good fun - kids dig it and the parents can't help but sing along, too. Here's a snippet of CeeJ and Bee's favorite song. ...
One of the biggest surprises of the afternoon was a cover song they did. While I expected a PUSA tune or two (there were none), I sure wasn't expecting a Nirvana song. When Chris said it was going to be a Nirvana song, I started running through a list of potentials - and rejected all of them for content/lyrics. However, they launched into "Grandma Take Me Home," which was actually quite appropriate (but still a when-worlds-collide kind of moment for me).

Bee spent basically the entire hour dancing. Again. :)

And after the show was over, the kids got autographs from the band.

If not before, we'll for sure be back to the Seattle Presents series in July, when the Not Its play.