No Chocolate for Breakfast: Caleb's School Christmas Concert + Caleb Plays Piano + Caleb's Swimming Progress + Christmas Shenanigans

Caleb's School Christmas Concert

On Thursday morning Evelyn and I went to Odyssee (past school of Liana, present school of Caleb, future school of Evelyn) for the annual Christmas concert. I was worried about Evelyn fussing during the show but she loved it! Dimmed lights, kids everywhere, singing and dancing. She especially loved the clapping and cheering between numbers and even took a little snooze halfway through. A weird thing though is that it wasn't ordered in the usual JK-6 sort of way but randomized and Caleb's grade 1 class was third before last. Crowning moment was one of the first songs by a whole class: a little girl in the front row refused to sing and plugged her ears looking miserable the entire song. At the end of the show we said hi to Caleb and he was really sweet and introduced Evelyn to his teacher.

Yo yo yo!

Ready to go see the Christmas show

This is the video of Caleb's class - he's at the bottom right in the right t-shirt - terrible video picture and sound quality

Caleb sings an excerpt since the above video was so blurry

Caleb Plays Piano

Caleb's been playing piano for over a year now. He didn't advance much last year because we wouldn't practice at home so he only played during his 30 minute weekly lesson. This year he practices at least four times a week at home (immediately after arriving from school) so he's making some strides. I filmed these short videos of him practicing without his knowledge because he gets nervous when put on the spot. I love listening to him practice.

Warmup

Bouncy Ball

Jingle Bells (this is a new one for him!)

Caleb's Swimming Progress

Caleb loves swimming. He passed Swim 1 the first time and has been taking Swim 2 this fall. The class just finished and though he didn't pass he was close. He can now swim over 10 meters unassisted both on his tummy or his back. Pretty sure that by next summer he'll no longer need a life jacket when swimming in and diving from our pool. As a pool owner it's super important he be a confident swimmer so I'm glad he's doing well on this front.

I had planned to switch Caleb from swimming to skating for the winter but he could not be less interested in skating. He did CanSkate1/2 last winter and was tough to convince him to go every week. As much as I'd like him to take more lessons I don't want to battle with him every weekend. I'll take him skating over the winter and just register him in swimming again, which he loves.