Dance Appreciation from Day One

Today Garrett went to his first dance show. Andrea & I were invited to the Citrus College Fall Dance Concert, since Andrea had worked in that department and we have danced and filmed several of their shows. Garrett slept through most of the first half of the show, although he did open one eye during a "Singing in the Rain" number with 4 - 7 year old tap dancing girls. During intermission we visited with the Citrus faculty who know Andrea.

As the second half of the show was beginning, the director of the program came out to announce that due to the last number of the first half being cut off by a technical glitch, that the piece was going to be danced again. Obviously Garrett doesn't like repeating because he began crying right after the announcement. After he was changed, Andrea found an empty classroom where she could breastfeed him. She encouraged me to return to the show. She tried to come back in a piece later, but Garrett wanted to eat again.

Just before the finale I saw Andrea peak inside and I decided to hold Garrett in the back of the theater so as not to disturb anyone. This gave Garrett a brilliant view of the multi-colored lights that were flashing during the finale; he was totally entranced by them! Afterwards, we chatted a bit with the director and then headed home.



We stopped on the way at 21 Choices, a frozen yougurt shop in Claremont. However, fifteen minutes before closing they were out of almost everything, but they did mix up our requested conncoctions, unfortunately the yougurt they used was not as good as usual. We wound down before bed and Garrett ate too.

This morning Andrea weighed Garrett, and he is 8 lbs and 3 ounces today!