Performing

To the surprise of absolutely nobody who can figure out her genetic line, Fiona loves being on stage. Here's some recent video. Warning: if you're not actually a grandparent or other family member, I make no guarantees for how interesting you'll find what's below.

This is Fiona's preschool class singing What a Wonderful World with sign language at their end-of-year assembly. Fiona spent most of May walking around the house practicing, and they stuck her in the center as one of the kids who knew the moves best.

Then this past weekend Fiona had her first dance recital. Unfortunately, the recital was in a community center that had neither a raised stage nor raised seats, so any video I took had to be done by holding the camera over my head and hoping I was getting her as best as possible (and I couldn't get a good view of her dancing feet no matter what I tried). We'll see if the "official" video the dance school made is any better.

This was her tap number early in the show:

The kids all did It's a Hard Knock Life from Annie. This was the best number of the afternoon. Unfortunately, Murphy's Law is inviolable; my camera failed during the first 60 seconds or so, so this is only verses two and beyond.

Here the kids are doing Fabulous.

And this was Fiona's number from her hip hop class. We've never understood why you would have five year-olds doing hip hop, since moving the top and bottom of her body in sync isn't a skill that's really come in just yet. What was fun to watch was that, even if she couldn't do all the steps, Fiona clearly knew what the steps were supposed to be and was prompting the other kids on stage when they got off track partway through the number.

Curtain call!