Annual Day 2013 - Aashini

A few weeks ago, Aashini had her School Annual Day :)  

Aashini's group was first this year.  While they were doing the opening welcome and things, this little girl peeked under the curtain.  I thought she was cute :)

 Here's Aashini coming on stage for her dance!! :)

 OK... now before I go on....  I want you to notice this picture below... the picture on the left is how she looked when she left the house....  The picture in the middle is how she looked when she got on stage! haha!  She said she thought I did her outfit wrong, so she "fixed" it.... hahaha!  (Granted, I did put her top on backwards... this one was supposed to hook in the back, unlike a Sari that is supposed to hook in the front... I always seem to get it wrong! hahaha! BUT you couldn't tell when it was tied properly haha!)  The last picture is after the performance when we had it all right :) haha!

Anyway, back to the performance....

 Here she is with her classmates doing her performance :)

 She had sooo much fun performing :)

 Here's Aashini posing afterwards :) hahaha!

 That's more like it :) haha!!!

Somehow, Aashini lost her shoes... so she got a free piggy-back ride home :) haha!

Diya - Annual Day - Retro Post - March 2013

Diya had her Annual day at the end of the school year.  Things got crazy and I forgot to post about it.  So... better late than never!

 Their grade did a patriotic dance.

 Diya LOVED it and was so proud of herself!  She talked about it for WEEKS!

 She was a little distracted by the guys behind her waving flags though :) haha!

 Here's Diya with one of her best friends... Heemanya.

  They're cute :)

 I like Diya's pose here :)

 It was a cute little dance :)

 Here's a video of her performance if you want to see it :)

Here she is afterwards :)

The ride home :) haha!

Annual Day - Presidium - Aashini

In December Aashini had her school Annual Day! (yes, I'm way behind in posting!) Her grade was doing the "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme.  They did a fun pirate dance :)  Here's Aashini in her Pirate costume :) 

 The program started off with a famous political leader (who was really late) that came and did a speech to kick it off... See all the Secret Service guys?  There were a ton of them!!

 The older kids band performed the school song :)  (Click HERE to hear the song... it's not your average school song!)... 

 One of the Pre-K groups did a performance called "The Great Punjabi Wedding"... it was super cute. 

Later was Aashini's performance!  They did a Pirates of the Caribbean Dance.  Sadly we sat on the wrong side of the stage, so the pics aren't great!  We'll get the "professional video" soon, maybe it will be better :)

 She LOVED this dance and practicing it!!!  She was a HUGE fan! 

 She was smiling the whole time!  She LOVED it!

 I think this one is cute :)

 I had to post the jumping picture :) haha!

 This was the "Madagascar" performance.  The girl on the left is a sweet little girl at Aashini's school.  Her grandfather gives me rides home (from dropping Aashini off at school) on his scooter some days :)  She was having so much doing her performance :)

My favorite is always the roller skating performances :)  Pretty impressive hunh?  (doesn't look very good on the ankles though :)).

 That doesn't look comfortable hunh?

 ... this looks even less comfortable! haha!!! :)

Anyway, here's a video of Aashini's part :)  It's a horrible video... Aashini is on the far right... you might be able to see her :)

Aashini's School Annual Day!

Aashini's school's Annual Day was just a few weeks ago.  It's quite a big deal.  Here are a few pictures from the 4+ hours of fun :) haha!

 Aashini's performance was with the "hoopla".   

 They moved it up, down and around to the beat. 

 It was a little boring, but Aashini did great :)  She had fun doing it!

 This picture cracks me up :)  Aashini looks funny and the kid in the middle is making a funny face! haha!

 At the end of the Annual day they did awards for the different classes for the children's performances from the year.   Aashini came in "first position" in her entire class!  Go Aashini!!!   

 She was so proud of her award!  Here she is with her teachers :)

And, for your viewing enjoyment.... Here is a video of Aashini's performance from Annual day.   The performance is very long, so feel free to fast forward a little and you can see her get her award and talk a little at the end of the video :)