Bella has always loved theatre and has been in several community plays over the years. When she started high school she was excited to be in the high school's plays too. Her first opportunity was "All The King's Women." It is a series of monologues and short scenes documenting the life of Elvis through the eyes of the women who knew and interacted with him - from the woman who sold him his first guitar at 11 to the woman who runs the gift shop in Graceland 20 years after his death. Bella played numerous non-speaking roles in the play and she did a fabulous job. I loved seeing her up there on stage, so confident in front of that giant audience. Sadly, she didn't like the experience as much as she hoped she would. The director with whom she'd worked extensively in the past ran the shows very differently with lots of fun acting games and technique improvement activities for those who were not actively working on their parts at any given time. This director, however, did nothing but run the practice for the play. Probably totally normal, but just not what Bella was expecting or hoping for. Thus, unless she was in the scene they were working on, she spent hours sitting around back stage feeling useless and bored. It frustrated her and made her not want to participate in the production in the spring. It's too bad, because she would be great. I'm proud of her for sticking it out with this one and doing her best. Maybe she'll try again down the road.
Benjamin and I went to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and forgot to take a single picture. I need Bella with me to always remember to take a selfie! We saw them perform a dozen or more sci-fi songs - from Star Wars, Star Trek, and a multitude of other scores from sci-fi movies. It was fantastic and we both loved it. It was fun to go out with Benjamin and have time to talk. He's such a fun guy to hang out with if you can get him away from his phone for a while.
In the meantime, Peter and I have been keeping ourselves entertained. Our favorite thing is library story time. We hop around to different libraries picking the best ones. I love all the fun activities they prepare for the kids to do in addition to just reading books. Here he had to use an eye dropper with warm water and tweezers to remove pompoms from ice. He loved it. Definitely doing this one at home.
Despite the cold, we try to be outside as much as possible. We visited a new playground and found giant slabs of ice had formed on the bottom of each slide. Peter and I devised a game where we shot the ice down the slide and attempted to hit targets we'd set up on the ground below. So much fun!! We had all the kids joining in once they saw what we were doing.
I tried to photograph the ice shooting off the slide, but it went too fast.
When it gets too cold, these two can always come up with fun games inside too.
Or we head to the museum and play there. Peter is always a lot of fun to hang out with.
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