It's the final day before Christmas break begins and the boys have their Christmas show this afternoon. Emmett's super excited and Elliott is *not *excited at all. The person most excited by a mile, is Gavin.
Gavin has been talking about this Christmas program since Thanksgiving. I don't know why he's so fixated on it but totally is.
It's nice to see him excited about something in the real world but it has gotten a bit annoyingly out of control. It's just the repetitive nature of it all, not the fact that he's excited. I hope you can recognize the distinction there.
Unfortunately, Lizze and Elliott were both up all night with tummy issues and neither will make it today.
That leaves Emmett's performance and Emmett's alone. Elliott wasn't trying to get out of going. As much as he didn't want to participate, he also didn't want to let his friends down either.
Anyway, Emmett got to school just fine and with his new shoes. He even wore socks today. That's pretty fricking awesome in my book. ☺
I went walking and came home in time for a conference call with the people from Healbe. It was a pretty awesome morning.
Gavin, aka: *Mr. So Excited About Today That He's Been Driving Us Nuts For A Month Now *was ironically the reason I ended up not leaving for the school on time. He had decided to take a nap after his IVIG Infusion and then wait to eat lunch until it was literally time to go. Now I see the humor in it but in the moment, it was frustrating because I just couldn't get him moving.
Anyway, we made it, found some seats and then the drama started.
These two very unpleasant women arrived and out of nowhere, began screaming at this couple to get out of their seats. I was there since the doors opened and these two had never touched the seats and the couple that was in them, had been there from the start.
It was a unfortunate event because these women were truly nasty, mean people. They screamed and made threats at this poor couple in the front row. It was completely unprovoked and inexcusable. What's worse, they did it right in front of Emmett's class, who was waiting to begin their performance.
It was also upsetting that no one aside from the principal said anything. All the other parents just sat there and didn't stick up for the couple in the front row. I told the two ladies to leave and reminded them that this was supposed to be about the kids. The principal led them to the side, where they were still saying nasty things.
I was so pissed off because this was uncalled for and they were basically verbally assaulting 2 innocent people. They did all this in front of the kids and loud enough so everyone in the cafeteria could hear every single word.
Anyway, once those two shut up, the kids went on and it was super cute.
We left after Emmett's show and freed up some seats for other people. Emmett did great and wasn't too upset about the fricking sequel to *Fight Club *that was playing out before their eyes.
I did record the performance but unfortunately, for reasons I can't explain, the video is upside down. It was shot in 4k at 60fps and that's not super quick or easy to fix, at least not on my equipment. I'll see what I can do over the weekend and I'll try to get it up. It's not hard, I just don't have the cpu power to render this in a reasonable amount of time.
Overall, it's been a really good day and I'm so proud of Emmett because he did awesome. I'm proud of all my kids and I always make sure they know it. ☺
