Axel had his Christmas presentation at school today and did a great job. His class of Pre-K students sang three songs: Santa Clause is Coming to Town, a funny version of The Twelve Days of Christmas and "Happy Holidays to the tune of Happy Birthday.
He loved learning the songs and was an enthusiastic performer.
The words to the funny version of the Twelve Days of Christmas, that his teacher wrote, are:
On the Twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
12 I.O.U's
11 candy bars
10 purple stars
9 froggies leaping
8 fishies sleeping
7 useless car parts
6 one-dollar gift cards
5 strands of lights (shouted: all tangled!)
4 Christmas cards
3 pet rocks
2 different socks
and a chicken in a pear tree
Axel had two (different) socks that he got to hold up each time the "2 different socks" part came around. After the classes finished their presentations, each of the children got to visit with Santa. Axel was very excited and "not afraid of Santa this year" and asked for lots of animals to go with the boys' Jungle Book play set (that is neat, but lacks animals) - this he is getting, a new light saber (to this, mommy says, "no way") and a second garbage truck toy (he loves the first one Santa brought him and for some reason, they ask for a second one every year -- to share? -- but it ain't happening). Santa will bring various Star Wars toys and that should keep them happy. ;)
Luka had his Winter Festival tonight at The Studio School, the arts integration elementary school he attends in our district. It was fantastic! 200 kids singing and dancing. They did the first and the last numbers all together; 200 kids on stage singing together was pretty impressive. Then, each grade (two classes) did numbers separately. Luka's class did a cool African drumming number called Shiko and also a fun dance number called the Great Kapok Animal Dance.
Santa was not at Luka's celebration but he has been saying he hopes that Santa will bring him a "real telescope" that he can look at the sky with. Auntie Laura will fulfill that dream with the Brunton Monocular. He also wants Madagascar II (but it getting Monsters Inc which they both will love) and other cool stuff. He also wants Star Wars toys - that is indeed on Santa's list.
