Happyoki!

Rylee's Yochein had Happyoki last Sunday.  I know, on Sunday.  It is a huge heal and the kids work for weeks and weeks on their performances and the Japanese do not understand why one would miss it for religious reasons.  I hadn't planned for her to go and was just going to disappoint them all.  One of the other moms agreed to take Rylee, so I virtuously went off to church and Rylee went off to her performance.

She did great and had a good time.  I saw some video, that I'm trying to figure out how to upload to here because they were SO stinking cute!  They changed (adorable!!) costumes and played their pianicas and did great.  The Pianica is a little kid sized keyboard that is powered by air.  There is a tube the kids blow into to make it play.  It is cute.  Annoying when they won't stop playing it, but adorable when they all play something recognizable as music!

Okay, Blogger doesn't like my video posting.  So, here is a clip of Rylee's class doing "Snow White".  Rylee is in green on the far left.

They were specific that the kids should wear headbands, so we did "headband" hair for Rylee to keep her hair neat.  She wanted a photo of it.