School Days and Plays

Tonight, we went to see a play at the local theater. The actors were mostly young kids, they did a production of The Jungle Book.

The Princess really got into the story, I think. The first thing she said, when all of the animals were meeting at Council Rock, was that she really wanted to go up on stage with them, and that she had an animal costume, too. During intermission, she howled like one of the wolves. At the end of the play, when all of the actors were taking a bow, Shere Khan walked out, and the Princess stopped clapping. She looked concerned, or unhappy. I think she believed that the character was real. I mentioned what a good job the kid had done who pretended to be Shere Khan, and she relaxed a bit.

After the play, we got to meet the cast and congratulate/thank them. The Princess started telling "Mowgli" that she'd once had a tiger costume. He was kind and listened to her. (He was great in the play; Paul and I were reminded of a couple of movie actors, and of Peter Pan)

The Inventor thought the parts with Mowgli were the best. He mentioned that he'd thought the dagger was real, but then when we saw them in the hallway, he noticed that it looked like it was made of plastic. I've asked the kids if they would be interested in being in a play (I'll admit, that was one of the reasons we took them there; we wanted them to see what a performance was like), and the Inventor says that he would like to make some plays/stories of his own!

What else has been going on...well, the Inventor invents (with his Physics kit, mainly), and I introduced him to the Bill Nye the Science Guy TV show, he really enjoyed it.

The Princess has a birthday coming up...she'll be five, and I don't know what we'll do with her, she's so dramatic! She's been working at school with the other two, we have our first "real" schoolroom set up, and I love it. The kids want to "teach" us, though, so we give them a turn at the white board, sometimes!

All three kids are now signed up for soccer. We didn't know if the Dragon would decide to play or not, until the last minute. She loves the game, and I think she will be fine once she gets back into the swing of it, but her knees are bothering her. She's wondering if she'll play goalie again this year; she should be with the same coaches, but an older team.

We had family in over the last week, so things were really busy, but we had a lot of fun. The kids got to meet their brand-new cousin, from Texas, plus there were oodles of aunts and uncles and grandparents.

The kids and I went to a camp-out at a friend's this month, where we stayed up to watch a meteor shower. We ate S'mores, too, of course!

That's all I can recall at the moment! And plenty for one post. Onward!