Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Sophia's class just finished reading the book and Lilly & Sophia just watched the Johnny Depp version of the movie about 100 times.  When we found out that one of the local high schools was performing it as their spring musical we simply had to go.

Lion King

Rising Stars Vocal Group 

After 10 weeks of rehearsals the girls performed in two shows on March 18. The first performance included songs from popular Disney movies. Sophia had a few solos and stood in front of the group a few times. Then they both starred in an adapted version of the musical Lion King. Sophia was Scar (the antagonist) and got top billing in the cast list printed in the program. Way to go, Sophia!  Lilly was Sarafina, mother of Nala. 

Both girls worked so hard to memorize their lines and both had great performances. Poor Lilly -  one of her scenes was completely skipped over and she didn't even know it. She came out on stage for the second time thinking that she would act out her second scene lines, but the rest of the cast were acting  Lilly's third scene. Like she should have...she started saying her second scene lines and was corrected by the director, Ms. Samara. Ms. Samara was hidden behind an accordion-style folding wall reminding each and every single member of the cast of their lines. Honestly, I think Sophia was the only exception.  

Thanks for the manes, Nana!

Surprise! Surprise! Grancy arrived just in time for the shows and surprised the girls! Lilly just beamed throughout the entire Rising Stars vocal performance. Just wait until you see the video.

After the shows we went to Red Robin for dinner. Grancy spent the night with us and had a little bit of time to talk to Sophia before she went to school.  Lilly was lucky enough to have the day off because of a teacher work day so she got to spend some "alone" time with Grancy.  I don't think there has been a time when Lilly was the only grandchild around...maybe, but I don't think so. They read one of Lilly's school books together while our breakfast quiche was baking. 

Bravo, Lilly!

You killed it, Sophia!

Check out these new renditions of the Mona Lisa

MONA SOPHIA

MONA LILLY

Perfect attendance so far

Sophia received a certificate because she didn't miss any school days during the second quarter of 2nd grade. She's aiming for perfect attendance this year.

This coming Saturday she has Saturday school and two days later (on Monday) she begins a 2 month stint where school will be extended for 20 minutes per day.  This, apparently, makes up for the snow days.  

A style of her own

It's official. Lilly will no longer wear the outfits that I pick out for her. She either hates them or tells me they're not stylish. Then in her very best Valley girl impression she'll let me know that she only wears popular clothes. She prefers to wear leggings and a short sleeved t-shirt - every day!

This photo does not depict the type of stylish clothes she likes to wear, but it does depict a defiant Lilly on her way to school one morning.  She absolutely refused to take any of her winter accessories off.

Dominoes

For a few days Sophia was really into setting up Domino trails. Each time she got closer to using all the dominoes in a single trail she would accidentally bump into one of them. A real bummer!

She set this one up before school one morning and only had a few pieces left to finish the trail. I was waiting in the sidelines to record the big moment. I snapped this picture and then it was all over. She bumped one of the pieces and the trail took off. This was the last one she made and a few days later I put the Dominoes back in the closet.

Girl Scout Cookie Booths

Between both of my Girl Scout troops I managed 6 cookie booths between Fed 23 and March 9. It was a crazy couple of weekends. We survived, but just barely.

Seen above: Alyssa, Carlie and Lilly at a cookie booth in front of Panera Bread. 

Alyssa is my co-leaders daughter. They also live on Mulberry Loop so we take turns hosting the troop meetings in our homes. We meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. Sophia's troop meets the 1st and 3rd Wed of every month. There are a few months through the year when a 5th Wednesday rolls around and that is my favorite day of the month!

Seen below: Lauren, Carlie, Lilly and Eleanor in front of Farm Fresh. 

Vocabulary Parade

On the first day of Saturday school Strawbridge Elementary had their very fist Vocabulary Parade. Students were allowed to dress up like any word from the dictionary. Sophia chose grapes. Her costume was very easy to make, thank goodness.

Click here to see her on stage.

She can ride a bike

OK.  So a few weekends ago Sophia came in from playing with her friends and announced that she had taught herself to ride a bike. I didn't really catch the meaning of what she was saying. It's not that I didn't believe her, it's just that it kind of went in one ear and out the other. She didn't pursue the topic with me either.

Well, the very next day both of my troops had a park clean up at one of the elementary schools close to us. Our friend, Kate, had her bike and Sophia grabbed it. A N D . . . she started to ride it!  Here she is on only her second ride of the day. I was so proud and couldn't stop smiling for a while. 

The truly amazing thing is that she taught herself. We're definitely getting her a new bike for her birthday!