CKC Portland

Delightful. I love being able to teach in the Northwest. Lots of familiar faces this past weekend - and a good variety of new ones as well. Thanks to everyone who came and played in the Discover Home class.

One of the most amazing things happened on Friday night at the crop - Chris, my Mom and I are still talking about it (and I think we probably will be for a long time to come). The Friday night crop featured about 450 women (and a couple men) working away on projects, participating in the games, and just overall enjoying the company of one another (and getting some layouts completed). I was called up to the front to give away some prizes on the stage. I stood up there, said my name, etc and then Simon (who had been in his stroller with Chris and my Mom) came running up on stage.

He came right over to me and took the mic. Mikayla grabbed a chair so he could stand up tall at the podium. He babbled a few words all scrunched up together. I asked him if he wanted to sing a song and he thought a moment and began with the ABC song.

No fear. No trepidation. He missed the "L" which got a good giggle from the crowd. A big round of applause came at the end of the song.

But he was not done yet.

Next came "If You Are Happy And You Know It." The awesome crowd played right along as he sang the entire thing - including "clap your hands," "pat your knees," "stomp your feet," "beep your nose," and "shout hooray." People were clapping and stomping and beeping right along with him. It was awesome. I was totally amazed the whole time - the look on my face and my mom's face and Chris' face was probably almost as entertaining for people as listening to Simon sing.

He was confident. He was proud. He kept right on singing, finishing with a little song called "I love Mommy, I love Daddy." Seriously.

Afterwards he got down from the stage and ran around between the tables - no talking to the scrapbookers of course (saying "no" to people as they tried to give him a high-five). Up close is too personal for him but give him a microphone and an attendant audience of almost 500 people and he is amazing.

If you were there and you took some photos could you please email me - I definitely have to do a layout about this adventure. Thanks to Jill for printing out the one shown above.