School Dance

Thursday night we were at Jack's school for Kindergarten Literacy Night. They taught us all about reading strategies and showed us how the kids work on reading at school. It was super fun to hear all of the kindergartners doing their best to read.

We were telling Jack that we were going to be here again the next night for their school dance. Jack had known about it, but still looked nervous. I asked him about it and he said "but they haven't TAUGHT it to us yet so I won't know what to do."

It took me a minute - "school dance" he thought meant something akin to the Hokey Pokey or the chacha. A dance to be learned. HA! Adorable. He told me that he and Izzy were both worried about it.

Izzy, you'll remember, is the little girl in his class that he's particularly fond of.

After the literacy night was finished we went over to meet Izzy's mom. I told Izzy what a school dance was and not to worry. I promised we'd see them there.

So Friday night rolls around and we get decked out. It was a sports-themed party and the whole family was invited.

While we were waiting at the make-shift coat check (adorable), one of Izzy's moms (Leslie) yells out "you're lucky you're here or I was going to be really mad!" We went in and said hi to Izzy and met her other mom (Rhonda) and her little sister, Olivia, who is four. Izzy was dressed in her soccer stuff, just like Jack.

They gave hula hoops out to the kids for a few songs, and we learned three things:

1. Jack is a hula hoop savant. He says he learned from Wii Fit.

2. Hula hoops leave welts if they hit your face. (That was Izzy. Tough kid though, she bounced right back. I don't have a pic. That would have been weird.)

3. Jack's idea of sharing his hoop with Izzy meant having both of them in it at once.

Jack and Izzy were perfectly adorable. She seems as enamored with him as he is with her. Whenever something happened that they were both a little nervous about - the drawing for a contest, lining up for the limbo, gathering to do a dance all together - they stuck to each other like glue.

Jack's teacher played basketball against me in college so we like to flaunt our Carleton-ness for her. She wasn't at the dance but we sent her this pic:

Ryk was a little nervous about this whole thing and spent the first part of the night in Chuck's arms.

Eventually he warmed up to it and we spent a good part of the time dancing our hearts out - ALL of us. Olivia, Ryker, Izzy, Jack, Chuck, Leslie, me and Rhonda. It was hilarious. We kept looking around laughing that the other parents weren't having nearly as much fun as we were.

By the end, Ryker clearly had his own crush on Izzy and Olivia both. They wanted to be chased, and he just wanted to hug them.

It was a blast.