Steppin' Up

Lauryn just completed her first year at Sea Breeze Preschool. Last Thursday the class had a Step Up Celebration and sang songs with motions for their families and friends.

All the kids learned and practiced their songs throughout the weeks before the big day. Lauryn was so excited to sing her songs to everyone who would come over to our house.

On the big day....we waited for her big smile and motions to the songs she had been singing nonstop for weeks. During the performance, I swear I have never seen her stand so still and so quietly for that long - EVER. Her hands were folded neatly in front of her almost the entire time.

We finally got a few shots of her doing a couple of the motions. That night, at home, she sang and did all the motions for us on video.

When we asked her what happened at school, she said that she didn't want all the other mommys and daddys to look at her, only us.

Here's one of the poems:
A Fuzzy Wuzzy caterpillar wiggled up a tree.
It wiggled long, it wiggled short,
It wiggled right to me.

I put it in a covered box.
Now don't go away, I said.
But when I looked inside the box,
There was a butterfly instead.

I could never make one, even if I tried.
Only God in heaven can make a butterfly.

Our little caterpillar is becoming a butterfly...