The Musical Weekend

Mike's students performed "Schoolhouse Rock" at the beginning of November. I meant to blog about it sooner, but we're just always crazy around here. The opening night of the play, I covered a shift at the grocery store for one of the cast members so that they wouldn't have to miss. While I was there, Anna fell off of a chair at the babysitter's and broke her arm. Who knew tea parties were so dangerous? My friend who was babysitting didn't realize she was that hurt. Anna's such a sweetheart, she doesn't always show her true emotions. She stayed up all night crying and saying "hurt." Once I figured out what was hurting, we spent the next day at the local clinic and the hospital getting x-rays and a cast, so we didn't make it to the second night of the play as planned.

I had told another cast member that I would work for them on Saturday, but due to Anna's broken arm, I was able to get someone else to work that night and I got the chance to take the kids to the musical.

It was a great show! The kids performing were obviously having a great time with their singing and dancing. They're a bunch of characters. Madeleine's favorite part was when the "scary bear" came out, which due to budget constraints was really the school's badger mascot costume. She kept asking when the bear would come out again. My favorite part was the "Adjectives" song because I remember it from my childhood and the girls that sang it were funny and animated. Anna's favorite part was running out into the hall and flirting with Elvis. Henry's favorite part was taking a nap, which was nice for me because the girls kept me really busy.




















These girls really love their daddy and are very proud of him. After it was all over and cleaned up, we stopped by the cast party and dropped of some Snickers Apple Salad. I give this year's musical 2 thumbs up. It was really fun, the voices were great, and it was the perfect length of time for a crazy mother of 3 really young kids to survive.

Trick or Treat!

The whole gang... Claire the Pink SuperGirl was holding Henry the Skeleton while surrounded by the witch twins, Abbey the Storm Fairy was behind her with her mummy friend, Emma the Husky Wolf was helping to keep Anna the Easter Bunny in the picture, and Asher the Dinosaur was sitting so sweet behind Madeleine the Pink Fairy on Paul and Jenny's spooky porch.

Here's one of our sweet Anna by herself. This costume really fit her personality and she loved to rub it on her face and tell us it was soft.

Our Henry the Skeleton asleep in his carseat. Lately he's been either sucking on his fingers, or sucking on his pacifier with his favorite fingers stuck in the middle of it. I love this boy!

Anna the Easter Bunny and Maddie the Pink Fairy playing at the piano.

Madeleine playing the piano, but missing her wings! Oops!

We had a lot of fun this Halloween. We went trick or treating with Paul and Jenny's kids and their friends because we conveniently had Dr. and car appointments in Utah County on Halloween.

I loved watching Madeleine trick or treat this year because she was so into it. Sure, sometimes she was too nervous to say "trick or treat" until after they closed the door and she had her candy, but I was proud of her "trick or treats" and "thank you's."

Anna went up to a few doors, but we had to go up with her and I felt like it was silly. Even though she loves candy, Anna didn't really care about the trick or treat part of it, so she spent most of the night in the stroller with Henry.

We have way too much candy in our house right now. I filled two gallon freezer bags and hid them in the pantry for Mike to give to his students when he needs a bribe, and we still have a bowl full on the counter.

Our Halloween started stinky because we had to leave at 5:30 in the morning to get to all of our crazy day appointments, but ended good because we had great family and yummy food. Thanks to Jolyn for getting me to my appointment while the car was getting worked on, and to Paul and Jenny for letting us crash (probably literally) at their place once again.