ASL Concert

I feel like there's nothing that helps one understand the English language better than studying another language... and that's especially true with American sign language. I'm so grateful our elementary school has an ASL club and I was excited for Ireland to join Liesel, who now has a couple of years under her belt.

Unfortunately, Ireland had a tiny cough that quickly escalated into a full-blown asthma attack (changes of season are always hard on her) and even though I had her on medication, she was still not feeling quite up to par the night of the concert. See those ruddy cheeks? That's a side effect of her corticosteroid. They both did a fantastic job though and this year a local news network gave the school some coverage (see here) so the girls have now been on TV!

As you can see from the link, the kids learned to sign to Go Cubs, Go! so we were asked to dress them in Cubs gear. Even though we will forever be Red Sox fans, we kind of need to give a nod to the Cubbies or we will get chased out of town with torches and pitchforks.

I begged the girls to teach me how to sign to Roar so here's just a snippet (I love, love, love their little dancing there at the end).

If you want to see the whole song, here's my video of Ireland.

ASL concerts are always short, but so very sweet!