TV Tune-Out Week Talent Show

We just successfully completed yet another week of no TV, computer, or video games at our house. I must confess that this is a week that I look forward to every year! It's so nice not having a certain little boy always asking about computer games or TV. We were busy playing outside, making paper airplanes, and attending after school functions like checkers, chess, and hula hooping. This is also the big week for the school talent show. Kelsie and Brandon both decided they wanted to be in it this year and play a piano solo. While we were walking over to the school for the big night, Kelsie mentioned to me that she really didn't want to be first. Brandon was pretty nervous too, but as long as were able to keep him talking, he wouldn't think about it too much. When we got there and looked at the program, lo and behold, there was Kelsie's name, first. She kicked off the show and did a great job. Brandon was #51 so we were there a while, but we were so proud of him for actually coming out to perform. They both did a superb job and received many compliments afterward and the next day. Yay for TV Tune-Out Week!

The NO TV Talent Show

We went to the Dewey Elementary School Talent Show last night to watch Kelsie and a friend dance to All For One from High School Musical 2. She did a great job performing on stage is actually quite natural in front of a big crowd of people! The show lasted almost 2 hours with forty-some-odd acts. There was a ton of culture shining through the performances and I loved every minute of it! There was the Irish dance, the Brazilian instrument that was played, the "kid rock band", the rapper, a song and dance in Spanish, and so much more! There were lots of magic tricks and instrumental pieces as well. There were also a few kids who did a comedy routine and my favorite joke of the night? Here it is:

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Dewey.

Dewey, who?

Dewey hate TV tune out week or what?!


That's right, we're right in the middle of TV Tune-Out week (well, almost done with it now) and are proud to say that our TV has been turned off since last Sunday. It was hard at first, but after we realized all the extra time we had on our hands, we've been having TONS of fun! We've been lucky enough to have beautiful weather this week so we've been outside most of the time playing and planting our garden.

I think Brandon was probably the one that was the most disappointed about not watching TV when he realized Monday morning that he couldn't turn it on (Wally turned the power strip off the night before). He stomped out of our room as loud as he could and then set the table and ate breakfast all by himself. Crazy things like setting the table without being asked have been the result of no TV in the mornings...we kind of like it! We've tried to have lots of fun each night so we wouldn't be tempted to turn on the tube, one being the school talent show. I really didn't think that we'd be able to do it and there were times, believe me, that I was ready to give in on those late afternoons with Brandon, but we stuck to it and are very proud of ourselves.

So, we'll see if the table gets set Monday morning, but in the meantime, we've got a Family Talent Show to prepare for for tomorrow night.