Parent Snack.

Right before Thanksgiving, Alec's preschool hosts a Parent Snack in which parents are invited and we all eat snacks (applesauce, goldfish, popcorn, and Skittles) and then watch the kids do a short, quite adorable performance of singing and playing on the rhythm sticks.

(Loyal readers of the blog may feel a sense of de ja vu when looking at the pictures below because Alec wore the same exact shirt in last year's Parent Snack blogpost.  I liked last year's shirt so much that when I found it at a Gymboree outlet I bought it all over again. Last year's size: 3T. This year's size: 6. The kid grows scary fast.)

So after the snack and before the sticks performance, some of the kids were running around and generally being four years old.

I texted Dan and wrote: In case you are wondering, the kid doing the pretend Ninja fighting by himself is your kid.  And the half-inch-too-short pants he's wearing are not adding to his overall coolness factor. (See scary fast growth comment above.)

Dan's response: So proud. So proud.

It was really cute and the headdresses are always a challenge for Alec.  But he did great and wore it at the appropriate times.
And he rocked on the rhythm sticks. And good musicians are always cool.