Pop-Ups Concert

This morning we took Ella to a concert in a nearby hall given by two young musicians and targeting toddlers and early school age kids. There was a large and very enthusiastic young audience for a duo who have been nominated for a grammy. The music was catchy and the themes were what you'd expect for an audience of that age - counting songs, stories about animals, life in a large city, and so on. I guess the show was quite short - about 35  minutes because the tots' attention span was limited and the volume of the sound was so loud that many families migrated to the back of the hall, ourselves included (Emily, Ella and me). Ella liked some of the sketches, but was fearful of the booming speakers. She wore her tutu to the performance because she was expecting to dance to the music, but that never really happened. As an aside, will she be wearing a threethree when she reaches that age in May?

After the show we stood in long queues for (a) cheese melts and (b) a present of a balloon creation. She wasn't ecstatic about the melt, but the balloon artist made her a monkey climbing a tree with green foliage and that blew her away.

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