And The Princess had a dance concert at school, which meant lots of rehearsals and driving back and forth for moi. The concert was a children's concert called "Fairies and Friends" and involved dancers from the three art magnet schools in town - kindergarten through high school. The dance the Princess was in was inspired by The Hunger Games and was really cool...modern and kind of funky.
The hair and makeup was kind of funky also!
Naturally, I thought The Princess was the best one.
To be fair, though, I didn't even look at any of the other dancers when she was on stage. I rarely do. I'm just always so amazed by my daughter!
Her grandmother came to the performance with us on Thursday night and was, I think, also amazed by The Princess.
No that we're biased or anything.
Then Friday evening The Boy invited his BFF to come along. We picked The Princess up from school and had a quick bite to eat...
The three teenagers realized that there was free wi-fi and promptly pulled out their cell phones and began to surf the web and text and otherwise ignore the old middle-aged hot mama who was paying for their dinner.
Whereupon I decided that if you can't beat 'em, you should join 'em and pulled out my cell phone and began annoying them by taking photos...
Why do teenaged boys think that smiling, rather than sneering, at the camera makes them uncool?
We returned to the school to drop The Princess off so she could do her hair and makeup and warm up for the performance. The Boy bought his sister a magic wand, which made me forgive him for not smiling for the camera.
Please notice what a good sport the BFF is...she ALWAYS smiles for me. And isn't she beautiful?
While we waited, we strolled around the school and visited the sculpture garden...
And then we went back to the theatre to wait.
The kids decided to whip out the cellular devices once again. I was bored and so decided to whip out my cellular device as well.
When in Rome...
Finally, after forty thousand yawns and checking the time twenty thousand times, the doors opened and it was - almost - time for the show...
When he thought that I wasn't looking, I caught The Boy being nice to the BFF. I thought this photo looked so familiar...
And I was right!
The photo on the left was when The Boy and the BFF were 5 or 6 years old...
Some things never change.
Isn't it great?!
We went into the theatre and waited.
I yawned a few more times and we waited some more.
The show finally began and, as I expected, The Princess was amazing again.
And the best part is that this is the last performance she'll be in (I think) until April. Which means we can slow down a bit and breathe.
Which is good.
While we were running around on Thursday Jack was busy doing this...
On Friday morning, while I was vacuuming and mopping, Jack did this...
When we left for the dance concert yesterday afternoon, Jack was doing this...
Then when we arrived home he informed us that he was hungry.
It's a tough life, apparently.
