Abby, Zoë and Enzo

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August 18^th 2007

Show Day in the Park

Abby, Zoë, and I hustled over to the park for 10:00 this morning, to catch the Kids Fest from beginning to end.  When we arrived the Touring Actors Company had just gotten into their rendition of Charlotte's Web.  We ate our popcorn snack while watching this, then was Mary Kaye and Professor Von Wienerschnitzel.  This was a pretty funny act, with Mary Kaye singing silly songs, and the Professor doing funny things with his "German Accent".  While this was finishing up we ate our lunch and then got to see Wayne From Maine perform.  His songs are fun, plus their was audience participation.  The first couple of times the girls didn't get chosen, but the last time they were passing out instruments, I placed the girls up on the ramp near the guy (Wayne's assistant, I can't remember his name) and he handed one to Abby, but then skipped over Zoë and ran out.  I told the girls to share the egg and shake it together up on the stage, where all of the kids with instruments got to go, but it didn't work out so well.  Abby wasn't doing so well on the sharing so Zoë was crying, then when I told Zoë to go ahead and share it, Abby started crying... not good for the show.  (Luckily there were plenty of other kids up there too)  I tried a little more to coax Abby into getting the concept of shaking the "egg" together, but it wasn't happening so I just got Zoë to come near the edge and brought her to sit with me.  She was so upset!  Meanwhile Abby was happily shaking and dancing away.  After she was done and the show was ending I let her know I was dissapointed in her choice and that she really hurt Zoë's feelings by making Zoë have to get off the stage on her last chance.  I could see Abby was sad by this fact, and she apologized, maybe it helped that Zoë was still wailing about not having her turn on stage.

Later, after nap, we went back to the park to watch the Portsmouth School of Dance.  When they woke up, Zoë had said she didn't want to go watch the ballerinas, but Abby really really did, so I offered Zoë a stroller ride instead of having to walk, and she conceded.  The show was pretty good, with little kids even as young as the girls performing, all the way up to high schoolers.  There were some fun performances that kept the girls' attention, and as soon as we got home they put on their "tu-tu's" and danced around the house.

Abby @ 3 years, 8 months, 3 days
Zoë @ 3 years, 8 months, 3 days
Enzo expected in 1 year, 1 month, 6 days
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