Lights, Camera.....

Last week both kids went to theatre camp.  Of all the camps they are taking this summer, this one I was most excited/nervous about.  You see, my kids spend about 80% of their time playing some sort of make believe around the house.  But playing make believe with your sibling is one thing, but doing it in front of other relative strangers is quite another, especially on a big stage.  I either thought this was going to be an amazing week or it was going to crash and burn.

Thankfully, the week went MARVELOUSLY! They both said it was the best camp so far of the summer.  (Score one for Mommy).  For Quinn the week culminated in a small classroom demonstration of what they had worked on during the week.  Clearly, Raif and I's presence wasn't the best thing as she spent the half an hour show simply looking at us and giggling but she did show us a couple of things, like how she can be a hungry dog waiting to be fed.

Greyson's class however ended with a show on the big stage.  They did a lesser known Shakespearean romp called "Chickens to the Rescue."  Greyson played both a well and a duck and an occasional chicken.  He had a smile on his face the entire time up on stage, he particpated and rocked his parts.  What more could a Mom ask for?

(Here he is, nailing the part of the well.)

(As you can see, he didn't have any trouble using his "Level 10" voice to be heard)

(Seriously, could the boy be having any more fun?)

(Now all we need to work on is his Oscar winning smile!)

It's Official, FINALLY

It constantly amazes me what my children latch onto as important as it relates to life's events.....

Back in February of 2010, when Greyson got accepted to BGA, along with his acceptance letter he got a little gift from BGA which included a spirit shirt and a car sticker.  I let him put the sticker on my car as a little reward or event to get him excited about going to a new school.  Then I promptly forgot about it.

 Flash forward to February 2012 when someone else received her acceptance in the mail... (I have an adorable picture of her beaming and holding her letter which is on our photo hard drive, which is Lord knows where in this shoebox crammed full of crap, sigh)  The excitement was palpable but not because she was finally going to BGA, which she had been talking about constantly for the last two years, but...well you probably can guess.

"Mommy, when can I put the sticker on your car?"
"Huh?"  (At this point I had honestly forgotten that I had let Greyson do that over 2 years ago)
"When Greyson got into BGA, he got to put a BGA sticker on your car.  I want to put mine on."

Now unfortunately, rightly assuming that sibling families already are choking on enough BGA paraphernalia they could die,siblings don't get the same package of BGA goodies.  So I had no sticker to give her.  I finally got around to going to the BGA bookstore in April and even more finally actually had 5 minutes and remembered to let her do it last week.  Though don't think she didn't remember, I got nagged about it at least once a week.

Once she put it on, she danced around and said "Now I am going to BGA!"   If I had known that was all she cared about I would have saved the tuition money and just bought a sticker for my car!