Surprise!

So tonight we had planned to go out on a triple date with friends to PF Chang's and then we realized that we're the world's lamest parents. We have been trying for almost a year to go on this triple date, we are all just so busy none of us are ever available at the same time. We were so excited that we finally got a Friday night free and we could all go out.

Only on Monday night we realized that the world's lamest parents don't know how to read school calendars and in our failure to read as 30 year old should be able to do we failed to see that Hailey's Spring Program was tonight. So we dutifully postponed our triple date, stopped longing for fabulous food, got a sandwich at Meijer, and ran back to school, dripping with sweat from running errands at the speed of light, hair all windswept because it had been rained on all day, and plopped into our seats to be "excited" about the event that is a Spring Program.

I will try hard not to be cynical or sarcastic about that.

Hailey looked so adorable. We realized the first time around in Kindergarten that kids generally get dressed up for these events (after we realized we were underdressed the first time) and so we did her up for this one - new dress, hair in Princess Lea buns, rhinestones in her hair, rhinestones on her bracelets, rhinestones on her shoes. She did look very very cute.

I was sitting there all proud of myself for managing to get the whole thing pulled together, work almost caught up for the weekend, and our whirlwind weekend just on the horizon. We have a Saturday that could possibly kill a cow. It's all going to be very very fun, but I've never needed a watch to keep track of a Saturday schedule until this weekend.

Anywhoo, I digress. . . .So we're sitting there enjoying Hailey being so cute, thinking how she's seriuosly the cutest kid on stage, in seriously the cutest little rhinestone outfit when she steps out from the crowd walks to the front of the stage and SINGS A SOLO. It was during the "Wiggle Worm" song.

Brian and I were so flabbergasted that by the time we were done we realized that we needed an instant replay to see what she'd just sang. She sang her little solo, then walked back into the crowd, and continued looking beautiful.

We were stunned! She never even breathed a word of it. She's been practicing her lines for kindergarten graduation, (in fact practicing all the different kids' lines for kindergarten), but somehow failed to mention that she was going to have a big solo.

We didn't even have a camera, so I popped these photos with our cell phone.

I can't believe we didn't get to video record her first solo :-( What if she becomes famous some day and we don't have a video of her first solo?

When we saw her after the concert we asked her why she didn't tell us she had a solo and she simply said "I wanted to surprise you." Guess she got what she wanted. :-)