Today at school, the Specials group (PE, Art, Music, Computers) had their annual Sock Hop celebration for the students. It's just a fun way to celebrate the last 6 weeks of school and the kids love it. They dress in their poodle skirts, folded up jeans, white t-shirts, girls have high ponytails with ribbons, boys slick back their hair. You can imagine.
So Shelby wears her jeans, white shirt, cute ponytail with blue ribbon. Ben...well...didn't want to dress up. Again. He never has and I don't know why, but I don't want to 'force' him to do it so there it is.
Regardless, they get in the car and start talking about who won the dance contest and best costume in each grade level. When Shelby announced her friend won for Best Dancer in 1st grade, Ben said a girl won in 4th grade also. Then....
"Can you believe a girl won best dancer? What's with that?"
"Ummm...what's wrong with a girl winning?"
"Because! All the boys did the best moves!"
"Like what?!"
"We did the robot, the science dance, the hamster dance..."
"Are you serious? And you still didn't win?!"
"Why? What's wrong with those dances?"
"Well...they aren't the ones they did at sock hops!"
"What did they do then?"
< I demonstrate The Twist >
"Why do people keep doing that? That's not right...it's not dancing... . THIS is dancing." And breaks into the robot. Wow...
And now I know why - and am thankful for the fact - he doesn't dress up for this every year. He'd probably go dressed like one of the soldiers from Halo or Call of Duty doing the robot dance. But having a great time! Go Ben! Go Ben!
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