Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

During December we will have attended/participated in nine concerts and three additional special musical numbers. It's been a highly musical and exhausting month. Cooper joined concert choir at his school this year and had his first concert last Wednesday. This is a really fun event. Every music group in the school (and there are many, music is a big deal here) performs. They're set up all around the theater (Cooper was on risers in the pit) and the one big rule of the evening is that no one can clap in between musical numbers, the applause is saved for the end. This moves the concert along nicely. Cooper sang in three of the songs, including the Hallelujah Chorus at the end. He did a great job.

A highlight of the evening for Topher was the t-shirt cannon. He leaned over to Phoebe's friend Isaac who was sitting with us and whispered, "I'm gonna get a shirt." And he did!