Jacob's Christmas Concert

Playing the xylophone

Jacob's school had their Christmas concert tonight. His class had been practicing several songs and had learned sign language to a few of them too. Their biggest performance however was a song his class played on the xylophone. It actually sounded really good for a bunch of first graders. It was so cute to see him concentrating as he played. His eyes were glued to that xylophone. At the end of the song he stood up crossed his arms in front of his chest and did a bow (so did all the other kids but it was just so dang cute!).




















Jacob had a speaking part in the concert. He had memorized it and so from time to time throughout the week I'd quiz him on it . Driving him home from school that afternoon I asked him if he was going to be nervous getting up in front of all the kids and their parents. This was the dialogue that followed.


MOM: "Jacob are you nervous about saying your part?"

JACOB: "No, I don't get scared." (said very matter-of-factly)

MOM: "Wow, that's really good, most people get scared when they have to talk in front of a lot of people. "

JACOB: "I know, because today (at the dress rehearsal) there was this girl who had to say her part and she got so scared she didn't say anything for a really long time...."

MOM: "Uh oh. Did she forget her part?"

JACOB: No, she had it on the paper right in front of her!

MOM: "Wow, she must have been really nervous."

JACOB: Yeah, when I go up there I just pretend like there's nobody there. Or I just pretend that they're all babies because babies don't care what you do."