Holiday Concert

Friday morning Guy and I went to Nico's Holiday Concert performance at the school. 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. I honestly wasn't planning to record any of it, and make it just an "enjoy" moment, but as Nico was walking out onto the risers with his class, he found us, waved really big, and then made a rectangle with his hands and pointed at me, then did the sign for "video", rotating his index fingers around each other. He wanted me to video it. So, I did! We had the perfect shot of him from where we were sitting and I was able to video him and watch him at the same time (not through the video). I turned off the video while they were standing up there waiting for the concert to start, and Nico looked at me again and made the same symbols with his hands, so I pulled it out again. Guy and I couldn't stop laughing.

 This hand signal means "Come closer to take the picture, MOM"

Watch the video at the end of the blog to catch a peek at Nico singing with his class. At one point he looks at me and makes a rectangle with his hands again to make sure I had my phone out and was recording. I caught that part on video so go watch it and have a chuckle. The video just includes about 10-second snippets from each of the songs they did. Also in the video are snippets of Nico dancing: the moonwalk, and at the church Christmas Party.

Saturday was the Church Christmas Party for the kiddos. Every year our church buys gifts for kids on behalf of their parent or parents in prison. We invite them to a party at the church and hand out gifts. It's called the Angel Tree Ministry. All the kids at our church are invited, too, so Nico went and had a blast.

They dressed him up as Olaf from Frozen.

Saturday night was a chess tournament at Smokey Mountain Pizza. Guy and I watched Perry Mason and ate our pizza.

Sunday Nico wasn't feeling well at church so I took him home early. He had a fever of 100.4, looks like he caught whatever it was that I had, except he threw up once on Sunday evening. He stayed home from school on Monday and Tuesday, and I sent him back on Wednesday. He still has a slight sore throat and a cough, but his tummy seems to be better.

Today we went to his doctor and had the gluten test done. I am happy and surprised to say that he is not as sensitive to gluten as he was the last time we were there! She said it had improved. Woah baby! And thank you God! But she did point out a few things to watch out for, because he may have a gluten limit. Bumps on the back of his arms was one of them (which he has some already), and she encouraged us to not let him eat it every day. Sometimes a reaction can be delayed and she was concerned about it building up in his system with continued exposure. We will take it easy. I hope.

Enjoy the video!