The Yellow Bird...

Ashley has been practising her dance at home... at po po house... in fact, whenever she is free! :-p I can see that this girl really enjoys dancing. But then, maybe a little too much! Sometimes, while having her meal half way, she just left her seat and started dancing on the floor. Sigh!!! It has been getting out of hands to control this girl to have her meal with buttocks on the chair. 22Nov was the day... to her concert. We arrived at the Civil Service College at around 9.45am, waiting to be seated for the show. As usual, the K2 have their graduation ceremony, followed by performance by the Carpe Diem Alexandra and Jurong West. Ashley was part of the performance. This year, the theme was 'The Enchanting Tales" with the combining stories of the race between the hare and tortoise, and the 3 little pigs. Ashley was part of the 'animal' in the story of the race between the hare & tortoise. She is one of the yellow birds that witness the race and rejoicing that the tortoise won the race...thus it was towards the end of the story that I get to see my Ashley dancing. The children never fails to surprise and bring joy to the parents. There's some amusements where little ones (toddler) doing silly acts, shy ones on stage crying...etc. Nevertheless, encouraging parents always cheer and clap for their love ones on stage. It's' not easy for them.. you need courage to be up there performing. Like many parents, I watched with pride. Ashley dance happily and I can feel her enjoyment. I am not being boastful, but honestly I think my girl had dance well. She saw us watching her, but never waves or returned acknowledgement. I feel proud of her... as a performer, you should not let audience affect your performance right? Little Cieran seems to recognise his sister, eventhough Ashley got her make up on. He calls for her (as in the usual 'Errr..') when he spotted her flying (yellow bird...) out to the front stage. Cieran claps his hand...as if he too agreed that his sister dances well.... haha! After the grand finale, we waited our turn to 'collect your kid'... I praised Ashley for a dance well performed. She smiles happily...I know she had enjoyed herself. Outside auditorium, I took some photos of Ashley with her friends.... Children nowadays got all the exposing which we didn't such oppopportunity. Personally, I wished as much was given to my children.

Ashley made me a proud mummy... :-)