Our kids have been doing “Talent Shows” for us for as long as I can remember… I remember Katelyn, at about 7 years old, getting Tanner and Ashlyn together and trying to teach them a “routine” to perform in front of us. “Oops I Did It Again” ring a bell for anyone? LOL David and I would turn to each other to try to keep from giggling, because we knew if they saw us laughing, they’d think we were laughing at them… making fun of them. But they were too adorable not to smile. Not to giggle.
Fast Forward 9 years and now our youngest chitlin is doing these performances for us day in and day out. 
McKenzie and Bailey hunt through their dress up chest and dig out their dressy dresses. Their routine tonight went something like this….
We are sitting in the living room. They are coming down the stairs and when they get to the hallway downstairs (we can’t see them from where we were sitting), they announce themselves: “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… PLEASE WELCOME…. MCKENZIE AND BAILEY MADISON” (It’s always Bailey Madison, that’s her stage name LOL). Then, they crawl down the hallway and RUN passed us in the living room into the kitchen where they hide and decide that the show won’t start for 5 more minutes LOL.
So we wait… and finally they are ready and request some music. David pulls up some Latin American tune on Satellite. I pull up my playlist on our old blog and put on their favorite. “Ready Set, Don’t Go”. They brought us two roses from our vase of flowers, they instruct us to throw them at them when their show is over.
McKenzie had gotten her bangs wet and slicked them over to the side. She was wearing a nightgown LOL. Bailey had on one of her fancy dresses and a headband that was 10 times too big and kept falling down onto her nose LOL, and a big white bangle bracelet.
They start dancing together, then McKenzie takes a seat and lets Bailey dance. Bailey is a crackup. She FEELS the song. Her whole body moves to the beat of the music, exactly as it is playing. I decided to switch songs on my playlist. She’d change the tempo of her “dance” immediately. It was so funny and cute. The other nice thing about the playlist was.. I could stop it at any time and that was the end of the song LOL.
McKenzie’s turn… she wanted the Ready Set Don’t Go song also. She is doing her dance a little different. She’s listening to the words of the song, you can tell by watching her face. She is singing and dancing, and she is making her body move to the words of the song. When they sang, Ready Set… she put one foot forward like she was ready to run a race…. then “Don’t Go” and she stepped way back. It was just funny!
My camera was not ready for video, so I missed out but I really need to get more of these on tape. I have a heck of a time uploading videos from my camera for some reason, but here are a few from awhile back, if you remember
These moments are ones to be cherished, because I know soon enough, they will not be interested in entertaining us like this anymore! 
