Thanksgiving Show

Today Mia had her annual "Thanksgiving feast" at preschool. The teachers cook a traditional turkey dinner for all the students and their parents. This is followed by a little show. Mia's class was scheduled to sing several "finger-play" songs. Last year, Mia was a bit young for this. She wasn't quite able to get with the program, but her much-older classmates put on an enthusiastic show. I was looking forward to this year's program, knowing our girl is now really into that kind of thing. Every morning on the way to school she sings and acts out "Sing a Song of Sixpence," giggling hysterically after the part about the bird snipping of the maid's nose. She then goes into a lecture about the bird getting a time out, etc.
Unfortunately, I had a meeting today and couldn't make it. I felt really terrible. Until I was laid off, I didn't make it to every event. After all, there are a lot of them. Now that I've had the chance to participate in more of these things, I know what I was missing. Jeff was able to go in my stead, taking the camcorder so I wouldn't miss our little actress's triumph. After my meeting, I called Jeff to hear how it went.
Me: Sorry to bother you at work honey, but I'm curious how it went.
Jeff: Mia loved having me there for lunch.
Me: I knew she would. She talked about it the whole drive to school, saying Mom couldn't go because she had a meeting, but Daddy was coming. How were their songs?
Jeff: I filmed it all, but they didn't do anything.
Me: What do you mean?
Jeff: The teachers sang, but the kids didn't do anything. Not just our kid, none of them.
Me: Really? But they've been practice their singing and hand motions for weeks. The teachers even said Mia and Evan started practicing spontaneously last week out on the playground.
Jeff: Well, if that is the measure of success, this didn't go so well. But I got it all on film.