And as amazing as children are, by the end of the evening, Savannah said to me, "Mom, I have the most important part of the play!" I looked at her confused and asked her what she meant by that. And she said, "I am part of the audience! Without the audience there could be no play!"
Wow! Now there is someone with the glass half full perspective! Once again, my children teach me more about life then I feel I could. Thank you Savannah for teaching me to look on the bright side of things when I feel like things don't go the way I want them to.
So the rest of the week was full of rehearsals for Hunter. The production of "The Princess and the Pea" is part of a traveling Children's Theatre, which only is there in town for a week. So practices start Monday night and go right up to the performances on Saturday--afternoon and evening. Hunter started rehearsals Wednesday night. He was exhausted every night!
We went as a family to watch the Saturday's matinee performance then I went back again for the evening performance. Hunter was adorable! He danced and sang on the stage--highly entertaining! My favorite part was when he would stop in the middle of one the dust bunnies group dance and put his hand up to shade his eyes from the bright lights and start searching for us in the crowd. Then he would remember that he was on stage and needed to play his part and he would begin dancing and singing again. He was repeat this through out the song/dance. When he finally did see us in the audience, he began waving and smiling with the biggest grin--that's our Hunter! (And yes, he did the same thing for the evening performance)
Here is a short video of Hunter finding me in the audience. I couldn't tape during the actual performance to show you what I described above, but you can get a small taste of what I meant. I wish the video was bigger so you can see him better. He is on the front row, second in, sitting down.
Here are some pictures of Hunter as a "Dust Bunny"
When I finished taking pictures of Hunter he said,
"Mom, look I can turn into a "dust pumpkin!"
The whole cast
After the evening performance, he excitedly came running towards me with something in his hand.
Hunter: "Mom, I won, I won!"
Me: "What did you win, Hunter?"
Hunter: "I won the reward for being the best actor and being the best actor back stage"
Me: "That's great! How did you act back stage?"
Hunter: "I was helpful. There was another dust bunny who was afraid to go on stage in front of so many people but I comforted her and told her that it would be okay."
Good job, my sweet Hunter!
Here he is with his prize--a heart shaped ring pop!