Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty?

The Cinderella play was fun. The Cinderella play was very very fun. That critique from Jessica. Yesterday night was the first theatrical production Jessica has attended. She did a super job! She got to dress up like a princess and watch the story unfold. At intermission, the Fairy-Godmother collected all of the princesses and princes and they had a little parade around the theater. Then they got tot have their pictures taken in Cinderella's magical pumpkin coach. She's still repeating in was sooo much fun, it was really so much fun ...over and over in a dreamy voice. No princess could've done a better job at waving as she paraded across the stage. Did I mention she might have been a little excited. As we were getting in the car to go, she confided in me that she was so excited she might pee her pants. I made sure she went to the bathroom BEFORE the production began. We didn't reserve tickets, but I asked for good ones and we got them;dead center on the second row back. We sat by some fun people. There was the cutest little prince in dread-locks next to Jessica. She thought because he had long hair he was a girl so she asked him where his dress was. He looked at her, and indignantly replied I'M A BOY! His mom graciously offered that he sometimes likes to dress up with his girl cousins. I told Jess that he was a prince. She wanted to know where his prince clothes were. We had the discussion that it doesn't matter what a prince is wearing, he's still a prince. Quick diplomacy is challenging for me to come by, especially in front of the child of the potentially offended!
There was a part where the king wanted the wine of his country...lalala...that wine is beer! Jessica asked rather loudly" What's BEER?!!!" I told her it was unfancy wine, which is a cousin to fruit juice, but we don't drink it. We had a mini FHE lesson the night before on the Word of Wisdom. I can only imagine the loud correction the king might have received from seat B1 if I had told her it was alcohol.
The prince did kiss Cindy. Jess thought this was sort of gross, which made me happy. I told her she could kiss a boy after she had a college degree. She asked me if Cindy had one. I took some literary license and added a part where she got her doctorate. : )
Princess Jess got a little sleepy a few times and laid her head on my arm to rest.
All in all it was a fantastic time. The theater was beautiful, and the actors did a great job. The Stepsisters were superb!!!

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Mad Hatter Cake, Mad Skills!!!

Mad Hatter Cake, Mad Skills!!!
Happy Birthday from Pollyanna

Happy Schmappy Birthday to me!

So, I know this is late, not that anyone is surprised...but I wanted to say thanks to the girls for the fun birthday lunch. ( I wrote proper Thank You notes and delivered about half of them so far..duh.) And then to make it even sweeter, Pollyanna (who has entirely admirable talents) made me a fantastic fondant mad hatter birthday cake! She made the fondant out of marshmallow so it tasted as wonderful as it looked! I took pictures of the art.

Jess and Wes on the first day of Kindergarten

Jess and Wes on the first day of Kindergarten
Jess woke up on this particular morning in rare form. She usually doesn't care what she's wearing; her birthday suit is just as good as anything else. On this day inparticular, she informed me that she didn't want any bows or bands and that she had her clothes picked out. Was that Kindergarten or 8th grade?