X-Mas post: My daughter's performance in a musical

[SiberianTiger]

While the Western world had a Christmas on Dec 25th, my kid has got a first in her lifetime experience of singing a party in an amateur musical performance on the stage of a local community's club, the musical was "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats". I was taking a footage of the performance (the quality is the best I could get with the equipment I have... really spoiled the 1st fragment until I turned the Auto Focus feature off...)

Such she was during the yesterday's performance... I'm really proud of her.

So, if you don't mind watching something sung in Russian, I invite you to watching all the 11 parts... Especially since in the part 10 the bigger girls sing one verse in English for a purpose.

The plot is well-known and meaning of certain phrases may be guessed.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH_BXw-CA-PgMuGItqqlG9IXN1I1M1XUb

Enjoy!

(The post is made "Contacts-only" for privacy reasons)

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I've only gotten to see the first two videos so far, she's adorable!

I wish my girl were young again (she's almost 19), she danced when she was the same age as yours. I'd really like to adopt a little girl and do the same trials and tribulations all over again (even that "life changing" event around age 12, that was rough).

 

[SiberianTiger]

I my perception you must be over 50 (sorry if mistaken...) I'm yet have to live through much before reaching that, so I probably have a wrong idea that after 50 is a time you usually "reserve for yourself" if you had any children before. Now you are talking of adoption. That's a honorable idea, I think!

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Only 44, so I still got plenty left in me for fun. The wife is constantly asking me when I'm going to "grow up", to which I usually respond with "Why start now?"

When Allison danced I had so much fun being a "dance Dad", who says all the dance moms should have all the fun? It was like being an uncle for anywhere from 2 to 40 girls at once, spanning age 4 to 17. She gave up dance in grade 9 for algebra. But she was in the high school band. So I went from Dance Dad to Band Dad, and it was every bit as much fun (if not a bit more).

I'd love to adopt an 8 year old and do it all over again. Kids are so much fun. A trial sometimes... I've been angry, elated, proud and horrified; often I got those feelings within seconds of each other. Of all the things I've manage to acomplish, raising her is what I'm most proud of.

 

[SiberianTiger]

A 8 years old? Isn't that a too serious age of a child for being adopted? One my friend married a woman with a kid who had been 4 then, I believe. They seem to be in accord with each other, although they don't reveal much of the internal affairs of their family. Still, I think, "the younger, the better" is a wise principle of choosing. But maybe there's lesser competition for children of older age, who can have their habits and are on a brink of personal independence...

This feels like an almost sad topic, anyway.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Nah, not sad. Kids need a proud parent at any age! :thumbup:

How old is yours BTW? Girly-girly or tomboyish?

 

[SiberianTiger]

Mine is 8, turning 9 next February. No solid preference. :lol: Can do herself a makeup, take a fluffy toy and crash her school bag onto annoying boy's head. :lol:

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Sounds like our kids would have gotten along just fine