What a day to be in a play

opening scene with black lights.

Mer and Max have been practicing for the last two weeks (MWF 9-noon) and tonight was the night of their play, US Geography. They did such a great job. They both have speaking and singing parts. Max is an alien skier singing a song about the Rocky mountains, and Mer is a Rockstar with a solo and a Valley Girl. They were thrilled at the opportunity to be in it and practiced very hard to be able to do a good job. It has been one busy day. We started off with play practice for a dress rehearsal this morning and came back with this evening for the first official showing with an audience (they have one more at 11:00 tomorrow). Everyone was supposed to be aliens so they spray painted their hair a little and Jack got some too. I think he is making a "tough" face.Their performances went great. They were a little nervous at first though. Of course Max had to sneak in a little mischief. As I was videoing him on a close up I noticed he had something stuck in his cheek that he kept fiddling with between lyrics of his song. When he came off stage he showed me what was in his mouth, a ton of half chewed gummy bears. He shoved a handful in his mouth just before he went on stage (I had been using them to keep Luke quiet as I helped backstage with the costume changes.) Max! Anyway, despite the mouthful of gummy bears he did pull off his act. I didn't get any good still pics of Max tonight, I'll have to try again tomorrow. Where was Doug to help out with Luke? Scout camp for the night, to return tomorrow morning before the 11:00 show.

The night continues... after the show they served ice cream. Some kids were running around in a side room of the church and Jack ran his face into a folding chair at full speed. He came at me with a face full of blood. As I took him and cleaned him up, to my serious dismay, I realized he'd split open a deep gash right under his lower lip. It was gaping open and even went into his lip a little. So yep I took him to get stitches. Ugh! Where's Doug? Oh yeah, Scout camp two hours away! Luckily everyone helped me out, my friend Maria took the rest of the kids, and Jack and I went to the ER to get his gash looked at. By the time they saw the cut, it had sucked itself together quite a bit and they opted to glue it. Which is probably good because Jack is a pretty calm kid but I could tell he wouldn't be able to hold it together if he had to get stitches. He was soooo tired. By then it was about 10 pm, and it had been a very long day. He just kept saying I wanted to go home. All in all it worked out okay. The whole ER trip took about 1 1/2 hours, Friday night and all. We picked up the kids from Maria's and were home by 11. Even though he was tired, Jack like having his own personal televion in his room. He watched Ricky Bobby race his car and a little Spongebob. (is it just me or is Spongebob on cable 24/7?) Everybody helped me out a ton and it worked out okay to not have Doug around. Thank you everyone!! So it's late and I need to sleep. I just needed to vent a little. Tune in soon for more play pictures.