Living the Dream – Josh Style
I am not sure there is anything more exciting for a singing dancing 9 year old, then having the chance to go to New York City to see a Broadway Show
and then coming home and dancing the title song in your own dance recital
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Raising a Broadway Boy
I am not sure how, here in the middle of a cornfield, I ended up raising a Broadway boy. I have a feeling it has mostly to do with 2 sweet little old ladies who are no longer with us. This is Grammy. 
One of Josh’s great grandmother’s on his father’s side. She was a singer and a piano player. After she began suffering from dementia, she could still sit at the piano and sing and play from memory. This is V.
She is Josh’s great grandmother on my side and she loved to go to shows. All kinds of shows and knew all the words to all the songs. So here we are far away from the lights of Broadway, with a boy who loves nothing more than to get up on stage and sing and dance. Good thing we are blessed with a dance studio and a teacher who knows how to nurture boys(Center Stage Perfroming Arts Academy), and a local theater (Center for Living Arts)that puts on amazing shows with casts of kids from the area, and finally with a boys choir (The Moline Boys Choir) that teaches fundamentals and discipline. So he sings, and he dances and he performs every chance he gets. And when we need to feed his soul? We went to New York
and saw the big guys do it for real.
Anything Goes
Wicked
The Lion King
Spiderman Turn Off the Dark. He had a blast and is already compiling his show wish list for the next trip. I’m just glad I have at least 1 kid who enjoys the theater.
Tap Dogs
Here are the boys doing their thing
Hip Hop at Last
Josh finally got to take a hip hop class this spring at his dance studio. To hear him tell it he’s been waiting his whole life for this moment. Here is the video. Its smoothest if you start it then pause it and let the whole thing load then start it and watch it.
