Talent Show

Last year, as kindergarteners, Samantha and her friend Ashley sang at the talent show. 

In case you want to relive "Let it Go" from that night: Peabody Talent Show 2014

And this year, on our way to soccer practice one afternoon with a carpool of four 1st graders, Pitbull's song "Fireball" came on and they all four decided they were going to dance, sing AND play air guitar. Three out of the four girls didn't know what an air guitar was so it was funny hearing the one who suggested it explain it with, "well, we all have a built in air guitar, you just have to know how to use it." 

Fast forward to the day of the tryouts and this is Samantha waiting to go play the piano sans friends. Long story short, Spring Break happened and then tryouts were the following week, there was no practicing of said Fireball routine even though I did fantasize about teaching the girls an awesome dance routine ;) 

Here she is at at the tryouts where they could not find the bench to go with the piano so she was seated a little low and Samantha sort of scoots around on the bench to reach all the keys so I'd say it wasn't her best performance. And then, Gus our piano teacher, came over before the actual show and gave her some performance tips like bowing and to wait for the applause in between the two songs she was going to do. 

Nervous girl! She told us after the show that her teeth were shaking and so were her legs! 

She did awesome despite the lower keys on the piano being out of tune and a few wrong notes but she just kept going like Gus said. Oh and we did bring our own bench but low and behold they found a bench! 

These two reunited for a picture. Ashley was super brave and kicked off the show and sang by herself. 

She sang in K, piano in 1st, what are the chances I can get her to do a flamenco routine next year?

So proud of Sammy! (and I added a clip from a second grader who last year did an Elvis routine that was a crowd favorite. This year he did an equally impressive routine. Had I not ran out of space on my phone I would have recorded the whole thing) ;)