Thursday 2 July 2009

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The amazing psychedelic nursery performance

Jamie's nursery is separated between the three year olds (Tweenies) and four year olds (preschoolers). For weeks and weeks he's been asking me first thing in the morning, 'Am I a preschooler yet?', after breakfast, 'Am I a preschooler yet?', on the way to nursery, 'Am I a preschooler yet?', the way home from nursery, 'Am I a preschooler yet?'... You get the picture. This obsession with 'becoming a preschooler' is because they've been preparing and rehearsing for their graduation ceremony for at least the last month. Whatever time he's not been asking, 'Am I a preschooler yet?', he's spent singing the songs from the graduation ceremony. Perfectly, with gusto. Dozens of them.

Yesterday was the big day. Finally I could tell him, 'Yes, Jamie, today you'll become a preschooler'. When I dropped him off all thirty of the kids were whisked away to a back room for final preparations, as the adults played musical chairs for the available chairs (I lost, as you see by the ubiquity of heads in my pics and my crappy hand-in-the-air blind video). And then they started marching in, Jamie bringing up the rear, not following the hands-on-shoulders brief, but introducing his own hands on hips brief.:

He looked around:His eyes searched mine:


He felt like this:

He felt like this:

He felt like this:
The pageant passed with all the children enacting the roles they've been practising, singing all the songs they've been rehearsing, while Jaim watched the proceedings like he'd had LSD for breakfast:



Pay particular attention to the 30 second mark, when he clearly has bigger things on his mind. Is this kid literally 'Too cool for school'?

5 comments:

  1. How funny!! I love preschool (and school for that matter) concerts. He is definitely sooo too cool for school! Feel relieved that he isn't the child who sings really badly and loud (yep, that would be Lou!!) or minces across the stage in his shepherd costume then stands in-front of the stage and pulls his pants out of his bum!! (Jack!)
    They are so cute with their little Scottish accents too.

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  2. Coo. My daughter's nursery doesn't do anything like that. Wow!

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  3. CLEARLY Jamie is too cool for school...he's a riot!

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  4. *LOL* H was just like that at any of the preschool concerts, and wasn't too chuffed about reception year christmas concert... the only concert he liked was the fall one, and he was quite upset that the bigger kids got all the big parts and not him.. we shall see what happens in the fall..

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  5. Really funny! My daughter and her friend spent the whole pre-school nativity play gossiping in their angel costumes like 2 old ladies! Very embarrassing. Really cute scottish accents too. x

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