Alice at The House

Alice and Little Friend Cora are cultured young things and so they set off to the last in the Baby Proms series at the Opera House this morning. I really wanted to take her to the Christmas concert again, but since our celebrity opera singing friend has inconsiderately taken herself off to have another baby, we decided to see "Afro Moses" and his band instead. Plus these concerts are designed for children - 40 minutes in length. Perfect.

I'd like to think that it was the enormous feathered headress that the lead singer was wearing that had Alice and Cora wrapped around our necks in fear, at the start of the show, rather than the fact that they only ever see white faces in the Eastern suburbs. However, once the band considerately started performing African themed songs, (Lion King numbers, "A-Wimba-Way", and the tune to "Free, Nelson Mandela") they both relaxed. They got quite into the more authentic stuff later on - loving the drums, clapping to the beats and trying to play a very odd instrument made from nails, which bore no resemblance to the musical items they usually see at the Early Learning Centre. Alice had just about settled in sufficiently, to start dancing when it came to an end.

We're thinking of going to a few of the Proms series next year now - they are getting to be just the right age. Can't wait for the one with the dancers from the national ballet, where all the children are encouraged to dress up in their own tutus.



Alice has fun before and after the show



It was a really great morning out all in all.