From Chemistry to Christmas Music

Thursday night was Science Fair Open House and the first night of the Choctaw Christmas Concert and Bake Sale. So, Adam, the boys and I spent a bit of time bouncing from school to school. Thank goodness the boy’s schools are right across the street from each other :-) First stop was Choctaw to drop off our goodies for the Bake Sale. There were so many yummy looking treats and all of them wrapped up so nicely. Here is a picture of our contributions.

I started to describe them, but that turned into a whole ‘nother post. I will try to get that posted really soon. Suffice it to say (for now) that the items in the picture are Snowman Soup, Style Marcher Sticks, Choctaw Crunch and Dum Dum Sucker Presents.

I'm really proud of these Dum DUm sucker presents. I usually just copy other people's ideas. But, this one is from my very own head :-) They are Dum Dum suckers inside a little present.

All the goodies!!!

After dropping off goodies, we headed across the street to the Science Fair at Pryor. The Media Center and Science Lab were filled with all of the Science Fair entries. It was really neat to see all of the hard work and interesting topics. After perusing the different experiments I considered myself very thankful that Hayden didn’t pick anything really gross and disgusting. Let’s just say there were several “lets see how long it takes this food to rot” projects :-) We are glad Science Fair is over. We learned a lot! The Open House was a great chance to see how to make things even better and more fun next year.

Hayden in front of his Scinece Fair project
How Liquid Effects the Super Absorbent Polymer Sodium Polyacrylate.

Okay, now back to Choctaw for the Christmas Concert. The Chorus, Madrigals (select members of the Chorus), Concert Band, Symphonic Band and Jazz Band all performed Christmas Music. Yes, ACTUAL Christmas music with the words “Merry Christmas” and “Jesus” and everything!!! Yeah!!!! There were Toy Soldiers, Elves and Santa even came. It was really neat. I didn’t take very many pictures or video because without being able to use a flash it’s hard to capture anything correctly. But I had to get this song on video. It’s a bad video, but I hope you will get an idea of how much fun these kids have. They were very entertaining. This is the Fruitcake Song sung by the Madrigals. They do it every year and it is one of the highlights of the concert. It’s basically a funny song/food fight. Since the audio isn’t great, I’ve included the words. And note how prepared the band is (sitting on the stage) with their umbrellas :-)

Okay the *&#* video won't load right now. I'm going to post this anyway and try to load the video when we get back home. Until then :-)

Update:

Okay I got the video uploaded, but for some reason I have lost the seond half :-( Soooo, until I figure out what happened and fix it I included another clip from YouTube. It's from last year, and ironically this one picks up where mine leaves off (from the other side of the auditorium).

FRUITCAKE LYRICS

Bass:
Sift the flour and fold in eggs

Alto:
Now you add the lemon peels (I would say a cup or two) Then some raisins, dates and figs. Just how much is up to you.
(repeat Bass and Alto sections together)

Tenor:
Pecans, Walnuts and Hazelnuts Almonds and all other 'crazlenuts'!
(repeat Bass, Alto and Tenor sections together)

2nd Soprano:
Cinnamon! Cinnamon! Don't forget the Cinnamon, other spice is always nice, but don't forget the Cinnamon! Cinnamon! Cinnamon! Don't forget the Cinnamon, other spice is always nice, but don't forget the Cinnamon!
(repeat Bass, Alto, Tenor and 2nd Soprano sections together)

1st Soprano:
Way up high go candied cherries glistening like Christmas berries. Add some rum (but just a drop) Then it's time to *hic* stop!
(repeat Bass, Alto, Tenor, 2nd and 1st Soprano sections together)

All (ending):
Have yourself some fruitcake! *MMMMM*