Signing Time

Are you familiar with Signing Time?

We're big fans in our house.  :)

Long story (sort of) short:

I follow Rachel (Coleman--the host of Signing Time) on Twitter.  Back in March (maybe April??), she made a comment about how hard it is to find ethnic kids in Utah for the videos because everyone here is blond haired, blue eyed.  I replied telling her that I have a Japanese friend (Yuki) who lives in Sandy and has two adorable children.  Rachel was SUPER excited and asked for my friend's contact info.  I called Yuki and said something like this,
"You don't mind if I give your number and email to a complete stranger, right?"  ;)  Yuki is sweet and said to go for it.  Fast forward to a week or so later.  I got a call in the middle of the day from Yuki saying, "We're here filming Signing Time right now and they need more kids and I told them that your kids know how to sign.  They are wondering if you want to be in a Signing Time video."

Um...HECK YES!

The kids were grumpy and very uncooperative, but it was still a fun day overall.  

Fast forward again to a few days ago when I got an email saying that there is a cast and crew "pre-screening" party that we're invited to (yesterday).  We got there and watched the new "Potty Time" DVD with Rachel and Yuki and her kids (and a couple of other people--most people came to an earlier showing), then got to mingle and chat for a little while after.

Lexi was hilarious during the movie because Rachel was sitting in front of and one seat over from her, and Lexi kept looking up at the screen, then to Rachel, then back at the screen--over and over and over.  :)  She was so confused.  haha  Ari was dancing (of course) to the music and Yuki saw her and started laughing.  This caused Rachel to look over and she was laughing and told me how adorable Ari is.  Random fact: Ari ate an entire bag of popcorn all by herself.  She was seriously eating like a starving refugee.  hahaha

After the movie (in which Yuki's two kids were shown a TON!  It was AWESOME!), we chatted and mingled and took pictures with Rachel.

Kaden was being shy (shocker) and this is when Rachel was telling him that she used to be so shy that when they started filming Signing Time, she would have to turn around in the recording studio so that she couldn't see anyone watching her sing.

Lexi checking out the lighting stuff that they had set up for their photographer (Rachel's husband, Aaron).  The lights really messed with our camera...

Yuki with Kai and Lily and Rachel.  Rachel signed everyone's DVD's (well, the paper part-not the actual DVD).

Cuties!

Ari running around playing.  :)

It was a really fun night and so fun to see Yuki and her kids!  :D