Bleat, bleat little goat
This summer, Addie got to be a part of a local church's Drama Camp. Now if you know Addie, you may be surpised to hear that :) While she is verbally boisterous and bold, it is usually once she knows you well enough. Each of my girls have a mantra for the year and hers is, "Be Brave." Drama camp was a good way to put her mantra to the test & to give her her own unique experience to be a part of, away from her brothers and sisters.
The play was a fun take on Noah's Ark, called Archaeology. For the most part, she remained quiet on the set, not trying out for any speaking parts or solos. Those took extra practice and she wasn't quite ready to sell out the Slip 'n Slide with her brothers and sisters for a solo part in the play. She loved being a part of the actor's world, though. She read through the script frequently, the music played continuously in our car for days, and the costumes.... well, she almost loved the costumes.
One day after practice, she climbed into the car an announced that she was going to be (drumroll please), a GOAT! My kids aren't lucky in the "draw from a hat" department (remember Emma's Uranus planet report?!). I pulled from the Uranus experience, and was able to drum up a very encouraging and pumped up, "Goat! Oh yeah!" She wasn't buying whatever I was selling, but Addie is a tropper, and she warmed up quickly to the whole goat idea. I told her that they probably picked the two most gorgeous girls in the class to be goats....anybody can be a cute mouse or monkey, a sweet ladybug or sheep, but a goat??!! Come on now, that takes some serious cuteness to pull that one off :)
She embraced being a goat. The only problem was the fur from the goatee kept getting into her mouth. and the furry wristbands, made her itch profusely. I had to draw back on my acting days to give her a few tips. I told her be discrete when pulling the goat hair out of her mouth, to not do it in the middle of a song...to itch her wrists during the solos. Look out into the crowd and just keep smiling-what ever happens smile and keep singing. She did a wonderful job! She wasn't nervous and she was a cute as a goat can be :)
The play was a fun take on Noah's Ark, called Archaeology. For the most part, she remained quiet on the set, not trying out for any speaking parts or solos. Those took extra practice and she wasn't quite ready to sell out the Slip 'n Slide with her brothers and sisters for a solo part in the play. She loved being a part of the actor's world, though. She read through the script frequently, the music played continuously in our car for days, and the costumes.... well, she almost loved the costumes.
One day after practice, she climbed into the car an announced that she was going to be (drumroll please), a GOAT! My kids aren't lucky in the "draw from a hat" department (remember Emma's Uranus planet report?!). I pulled from the Uranus experience, and was able to drum up a very encouraging and pumped up, "Goat! Oh yeah!" She wasn't buying whatever I was selling, but Addie is a tropper, and she warmed up quickly to the whole goat idea. I told her that they probably picked the two most gorgeous girls in the class to be goats....anybody can be a cute mouse or monkey, a sweet ladybug or sheep, but a goat??!! Come on now, that takes some serious cuteness to pull that one off :)
She embraced being a goat. The only problem was the fur from the goatee kept getting into her mouth. and the furry wristbands, made her itch profusely. I had to draw back on my acting days to give her a few tips. I told her be discrete when pulling the goat hair out of her mouth, to not do it in the middle of a song...to itch her wrists during the solos. Look out into the crowd and just keep smiling-what ever happens smile and keep singing. She did a wonderful job! She wasn't nervous and she was a cute as a goat can be :)
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