we had a busy weekend with dave's work christmas party on friday and then our howard/skiver christmas celebration with my bff and her family on saturday. we made sure to not stay too late as we had to be up bright and early this morning for the singing sensation.
but when we left fenton last nite it was snowing. and i then heard that they were expecting between 6-8 inches by 7pm sunday evening. will the moment hayden has been waiting for be cancelled?!
i woke up this morning to find that we had somewhere between 4-6 inches on the ground and the wind was blowing like crazy. there were church closings scrolling throughout the news cast but nothing for oak pointe. so we all got ready, dave shoveled the driveway and started the car and we headed out hoping the doors wouldn't be locked. even though we left at about 8am and dave stopped to help some lady that was stuck, we still got there around 8:30. i love my explorer. now, i know a lot of the world is all concerned about the environment, but so many of those people live in california. i live in michigan. so i'll keep my explorer and i won't feel bad about it, thank you very much.
the service was pretty much empty other than the families of all the kids singing holding their cameras and video cameras. so at least i wasn't the only crazy parent making my family drive in a blizzard to get my kid up on stage.
for the first service hayden was on top of the world. waving to us all and jumping up and down the ENTIRE TIME. he didn't sing the first song at all. he just jumped. he sang some parts of the second song, but mostly because some of the motions actually called for jumping.
and then it happened. the infamous "booty dance." long ago dave taught him to put his hands on his butt, bend over a bit and shake it. it's always been funny and he's known it. so i guess he waited for just the right time to stop jumping and start doing the booty dance at church. awesome.
i was pretty impressed that he actually got off the stage with no real tantrum. i don't think there were any microphones right there on stage which definitely helped the cause. on the ride in he said "oh no! i forgot my microphone!" so i fully expected him to grab a mic and turn it into the hayden show.
after first service we (dave, me, mom, dad, jessica and talan) waited for the second service to start to see round two. maybe he would actually do a little bit of singing this time.
the teachers start guiding them up on stage and right away i knew something was wrong. my bipolar child had flipped his switch. as soon as he saw me he just covered his face and continued to act as if he was having the worst day of his life. this went on for quite awhile, until he saw himself up on the big screen. then he wouldn't take his eyes off of it.
by the time the second song rolled around he was ok enough to still get the jumping motions in, but that was about it. i started wondering if it was because he wasn't first in line this time. he has a few issues with that sort of thing.
dave picked him up from his class when it was all done and was carrying him down the stairs. as soon as he saw me he got down, jumped into my arms and just started crying. all i got out of him was that he wanted me to pick him up from his class. i think he was a little confused when dave didn't pick him up after first service and thought we weren't coming back for him or something. who knows with that kid.
either way, we got some good video and pictures.
lining up to sing in the first service:
one of the only shots that hayden wasn't jumping in:
he was either pointing to us or actually doing some of the motions, i'm thinking he was pointing at us:
the booty dance begins:
looking right at us as if to say "aren't you guys so proud?!":
just about done:
talan waiting for second service to see for himself:
the bipolar switch has been switched:
and switched again once he noticed himself on the big screen:
oh good. more jumping:
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