Room on the Broom

I survived!

I took BOTH Luke and Madison to a children’s play and I came back home in ONE PIECE. That’s nothing short of a miracle.

Luke wasn’t really a problem. He’s been to shows a number of times before. He enjoys them and he is very well-behaved.

Madison is a completely different ball game. She’s only 20 months, and she is extremely active. Her greatest achievement by far is sitting still in front of the TV watching penguins on National Geographic – for 5 minutes. So I think I was insanely brave to take her along to watch a children’s play that lasted for 1 hour.

But (according to my standards, not normal parents’ standards), Madison did well.  She only got a little bit out of control before the show (there were stairs! at the theater house, and she was a happy energizer bunny zipping up and down the stairs till the show started), and was a little antsy towards the last 15 minutes when the show was wrapping up.

I can probably attribute my relatively smooth time to the Tall Stories Company’s superb performance.  Based on the book of the same title, Room on the Broom is a fun tale about how a witch, a cat, a dog, a bird, and a frog shared a broom and went on an adventure which eventually led to an encounter with a fearsome dragon! The brightly colored costumes, catchy tunes, imaginative props, and the awesome actors captured my kids attention from the moment the curtain was raised, and there was not a dull moment throughout.  If you are interested, check them out here. 

The roughest part of the outing was the aftermath. Oh, did I forget to mention that a bunch of moms at Luke’s school (including myself of course) played hooky on that Friday to bring the kids to the show? As punishment for our irreverent behavior, we ended up with this:

I think the restaurant staff knows us by name after that fateful lunch!

Snapshots

Mandatory posing for the Mother:

Pre-show:

Luke was good at taking care of himself.

Here comes Miss Social Butterfly (or you can call her Trouble…)

Seated – Not the best experience for a certain very mobile person…

The Stage: