Anna's Birthday!

This post can go under....ANNA'S ANTICS!

The day started out with church. Anna joined the choir recently. It is really for kids 5 years old to 6th grade, but the gals doing it wanted Anna to give it a try. I kept saying that she wasn't ready and cannot sit still. Our choir isn't just the get up and sing little bitty songs. It is more like a show choir with lots of choreography and sign language. Really nothing that she can handle at this point AT ALL. She went for 2 weeks and the choir sang on Sunday. On the way to church she says...I'm a little bit nervous. I might forget the words.

We say...No biggie...you are only 4 and are there to do your best and look cute, etc.

Well, OMG!!!!!!!!!! I told her to do a great job by standing still, blah, blah, blah.... First she puts the finger in the left nostril. Barry and I wanted to die. Then the right nostril! Then the mouth! And all at the same time while squirming up there like a flea in a skillet. I was in tears laughing at this point....and so were many others in the congregation. I am sure that most of you that read this post that have little ones from China can attest to the fact that these kids get a lot of attention anyway. It just happens. They really don't get left alone in public places like other kids. They attract attention in our communities because of their cuteness, because they don't resemble us....whatever the case. The people at church adore Anna and have followed our journey with her from the beginning. So, they all thought is was cute that she has grown enough to be in choir. Where did the last 3 years go?!?

Well, the dress starts to go up. She will wear pants next time...if there IS a next time. Then she touches the girl next to her. That girl didn't exactly like that. Then she puts her hand over the girl's mouth on the other side who is 3.5 years old. THEN....she starts to REALLY sing. And by REALLY I mean in the most NOT SO GREAT LOUD VOICE! She got louder and louder. And then louder and louder. What do you do? Do you applaud her by just getting up there or do you go grab her at this point?Logan and Brandon could not see her do the nose picking and the other, but they could certainly hear her at this point and giggled. They said they got THE LOOK from the director and stopped. It was a hoot. I knew she wasn't ready for this choir,but the gal really wanted her to do it. We got stopped a lot after church. Our church is televised and THANK GOODNESS it wasn't at this service. When she sang at the second service, she lifted her dress and got loud, but nothing major. The people at that service really don't know her very well anyway. Well, maybe we will just do the Wednesday night stuff and not the Sunday singing thing, huh?

What a day!

Her party was at 6 with the Grandparents and Aunt and Uncle. We went out for supper at our favorite Chinese Restaurant and brought Justin back for the party. They had a lot of fun.

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