Anything But Gray

Jaime is in a choir at her school. They are called the Little Orcas and they are adorable. They have preformed in front of the school before and that's pretty much it.

The Little Orcas get together once a week and Jaime has enjoyed going. But whenever they have preformed she has been a little shy. She gets up there and does what she is supposed to do, but she's very reserved. Even with her anxiety with preforming, she never asks to quit Little Orcas, so she continues to go and we hope she works through her anxiety and perhaps, with practice, she'll get more and more relaxed.

There was a big dinner here for "Women of Distinction" and the Little Orcas and the Orcas (which is the choir for the bigger kids) were asked to preform. Well, at first Jaime didn't want to do it. She was scared to sing in front of so many people (it was a dinner for about 400-500 people) she didn't know at all.  We suggested she keep going to the practices and maybe she would change her mind. I talked to the music teacher and let her know our plan. And the teacher was cool with that. Then Jaime found out that the performance was going to be on t.v. and she was PSYCHED. She was so excited she was going to be on t.v. We were thrilled that she was happy to be performing and we got excited too. I let the teacher know that Jaime would be performing and was looking forward to it. Then a day later Jaime decides that she actually doesn't want to be on t.v. because then the WHOLE WORLD will see her singing. LOL We told her it would be fine, she should just act like she was singing for the video camera at home. She should just pretend it was Daddy video taping her and sing like she does at home. That seemed to relax her and ease her nervousness.

So we pack up the kids last night to go to the show. We drove one of Jaime's friends because they are leaving for a trip today and Mom and Dad just had a lot of last minute stuff to do….
We get there and get the girls all settled into the room and we walk around in the hallway, waiting for them to begin. In a few minutes the Little Orcas came out and lined up. The parents all snuck into the room and lined up against the back wall. I found a spot next to a couple of servers and watched. To my complete surprise, Jaime appeared completely relaxed and was singing with all her heart.

And she didn't take her eyes off the t.v. camera. It's like she spotted the camera and took my advice to heart….and thought "oh yeah..that camera is here to tape MEEEE!!!!!"

I put my hand to my head and just started laughing, the servers beside me were laughing too and I say "My kid won't take her eyes off the camera" They say "Oh yeah…she's getting her 15 minutes…" and we all just watched Jaime, in her own little super star world, flipping her hair back and singing into the camera with all her heart. She so cracked me up. She was singing LOUD too, we could totally hear her voice among all the other kids, which is a first. Typically when she does a performance, she sings super soft and we can't hear her at all. Being able to actually hear her voice was so cool!  I was so proud of her!  Even with her little diva display….

God, I love that kid.

The teacher is going to let us know when it is supposed to air on t.v. and we'll tape it for sure.