Ainsley had a preschool end-of-year program Wednesday. Ryan had a nurse so I went to the program unencumbered. It was great!
Ainsley is a personality all unto her own…. well and my own. I can see so much of me in her so I feel like I understand what is going on inside that brain of hers.
She doesn’t like to perform in front of people – it’s too much pressure that they might be disappointed. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t like to sing or dance. Put her in a room of her own, or in front of her family, and she’ll perform all night long.
I took my camera today and was able to capture this shot of Ainsley turning away:
Awesome, I know.
And then I videoed the kids all singing… well, just 11 seconds of it before my camera died! Thank goodness it’s not her graduation. Here’s a great look at what Ainsley does in front of a crowd.
Her class sang two little songs by itself after the group performance and on the first song I Ainsley’s voice was the loudest – I think because the other kids didn’t know the words – but her little soft voice carried the group and I loved that I could actually hear her. No pics of course since my camera was now dead in my bag.
After the program and lunch, there is a carnival set up on the school grounds. The classrooms have little games and there is a moonbounce and popcorn machine set up in the parking lot. Ainsley and I walked from room to room where she looked at each game and the fact that you had to step up all alone to do the game in front of everyone watching. She sweetly declined playing any of the games. She accepted getting a temporary tattoo of a flower on her arm and a dinosaur on her hand.
We then headed outside where she stood in 90 degree weather to wait her turn in the moonbounce. At the word go, she went halfway up the slide entrance and then came back down. For some reason (I think it was all the other kids bouncing around) she decided she did not want to go in the moonbounce.
I tried to get her to get a slurpee, she declined, but I got her one anyway. And a bag of popcorn and then to the car. We had friends coming over anyway and she decided she was done with the carnival.
She didn’t say one word about having to leave until we got home. She said to the nurse, “There was a moonbounce at my school but I didn’t go in it and I didn’t want to play any games.” That was it.
(c) 2016 Leighann Marquiss
Comments (3)
thats cute. thats how my boys were in preschool things like that too. everyone would be happy and singing and they would just stand there.
haha Ainsley is too cute! :o)
My son, now 16, hated performing in front of people and let everyone know how he felt. As he got older, I explained that nobody but me looked at him when he smiled nicely, but everyone noticed when he was not having a good time. Great memories.