H's first concert

We are all so proud of our little boy. He had his first concert last Saturday. He fell asleep in the late afternoon and was sleeping like a log we didn't dare to wake him when it was time to leave for the concert. So we put him in the car still sleeping. He slept all the way until we reached the concert venue. We were quite worried that he will throw a fit when he woke up, or be cranky and clingy and not wanting to participate, but nope, he was all up for performing although still dazed from his nap.

We took him to the holding room and changed him. No fuss. He also allowed me to put on light makeup on him. Again no fuss. The teacher then asked us to go to the auditorium. We were again worried that he will feel 'lost'. The holding room was in quite a chaos. Kids were eveywhere, teachers were in and out, and we only saw one of his classmates who was rather cranky and clinging tight to his mom so not a good sign. But we reluctantly left anyway, praying that he won't start crying (he was still in quite a daze). That was around 5:30pm. The concert started at 6pm, but his class will only perform at around 7.20pm so it was a long wait. In between, daddy went to check on him in the holding room just to make sure he was ok.

Finally it was time for the Mulan play.  L kept asking where is kor-kor. Then H came out on stage alone, dressed as the messenger. He walked around the stage, went to the mic and uttered his only line rather loudly, "Order from the emperor. Fa Zhou, Fa Zhou!". Fa Zhou and Mulan then appeared on stage and he handed them the scroll. The next scene was a dance depicting the fight between China and the Huns. H played one of the Hun warriors. The following scene depicted the celebration after China won the war. H was one of the dragon dancers. At the end of the concert, all the kids came onto stage and did a dance and H was dancing enthusiastically. I must say, the teachers really have a way with kids cos I'm really surprised he didn't suffer from stagefright. And why is he willing to perform on stage for the school concert and not during his weekly edudrama class? Hmmm...

Everything went well until the end of the concert when it turned chaotic again. As soon as the last dance was over, I told daddy to quickly go to the front to collect H from the stage. But there were so many people all rushing to get to the front and out, so before daddy could reach the front, we lost H. We couldn't see him anywhere and we panicked. We went outside, he wasn't there, We went backstage, he wasn't there. We went to the holding room, he wasn't there. Finally daddy found him and he was crying cos he couldn't find us. It was really disorganised and pretty dangerous cos the kids could have been taken away by strangers. Daddy then went to have a word with the principal. Least they should do is to usher all the kids back to the holding room and have the parents collect their kids there under supervision.

Well, luckily H only had good memories of the concert. We must have seen the short video daddy took of his performance more than 3 times since I downloaded it on Monday. L loves watching it, and wanted to watch it over and over again, "I want to see kor-kor dance!"