It was a bit warm today, but we had a steady, cool breeze that kept us comfortable almost all day. And we did lots of cool things too. We went to see a children's theater production at a small community theater not far from our house called the 40th Street Stage...it's a hole in the wall, but they do children's theater every Saturday at 11 am and do grown-up shows too (as well as comedy sketch nights). A cool find! Nora and Caroline behaved themselves pretty well. Unfortunately, the show (about Mother Goose) featured a life-size Jack-in-the-Box (with a real clown inside), which is the one toy that scares the living daylights out of Nora. So, she spent the first half of the show with her head buried in my lap. At least she didn't cry and/or scream. Caroline, on the other hand, couldn't take her eyes off the clown and started talking to the actors on stage (it wasn't happy babble, though...it was more like "Hey, what are you guys doing? And what's with that guy's yellow hair and pointy nose?"). I'm glad I brought a bottle -- that quieted her down a bit. The show itself was okay -- not the most well-written thing in the world (Mother Goose only spoke poetry, and they interwove 30 poems into the dialogue...a little tedious after a while and over most of the kids' heads), but it was fun exposing the girls to the "theahtah," since it's such a big part of the Walsh/Rudmann heritage. We stopped at the playground for a bit on our way home, then had lunch and naps. Then we picked up our veggie box at the Farmer's Market, had a tofu stir fry dinner (I can't believe they both love tofu!) and then walked over to the free outdoor concert going on behind the Constant Center at ODU. It was an acoustic trio, and they were wonderful. I'm so happy to live where we do --- we live so close to so many cool things! Oh, by the way, here's Nora playing teacher with the chalkboard/easel that Monica gave us and Aunt Irene's old chalk and eraser from her teaching days. Nora's getting better and better at writing her name by herself.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Keepin' cool
It was a bit warm today, but we had a steady, cool breeze that kept us comfortable almost all day. And we did lots of cool things too. We went to see a children's theater production at a small community theater not far from our house called the 40th Street Stage...it's a hole in the wall, but they do children's theater every Saturday at 11 am and do grown-up shows too (as well as comedy sketch nights). A cool find! Nora and Caroline behaved themselves pretty well. Unfortunately, the show (about Mother Goose) featured a life-size Jack-in-the-Box (with a real clown inside), which is the one toy that scares the living daylights out of Nora. So, she spent the first half of the show with her head buried in my lap. At least she didn't cry and/or scream. Caroline, on the other hand, couldn't take her eyes off the clown and started talking to the actors on stage (it wasn't happy babble, though...it was more like "Hey, what are you guys doing? And what's with that guy's yellow hair and pointy nose?"). I'm glad I brought a bottle -- that quieted her down a bit. The show itself was okay -- not the most well-written thing in the world (Mother Goose only spoke poetry, and they interwove 30 poems into the dialogue...a little tedious after a while and over most of the kids' heads), but it was fun exposing the girls to the "theahtah," since it's such a big part of the Walsh/Rudmann heritage. We stopped at the playground for a bit on our way home, then had lunch and naps. Then we picked up our veggie box at the Farmer's Market, had a tofu stir fry dinner (I can't believe they both love tofu!) and then walked over to the free outdoor concert going on behind the Constant Center at ODU. It was an acoustic trio, and they were wonderful. I'm so happy to live where we do --- we live so close to so many cool things! Oh, by the way, here's Nora playing teacher with the chalkboard/easel that Monica gave us and Aunt Irene's old chalk and eraser from her teaching days. Nora's getting better and better at writing her name by herself.
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