Dr. Suess and the Beast

Friday was a fun-filled day for my little family! At Blue Ivy we celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday. Everyone dresses as their favorite Seuss character and then they made hats as a class and had a parade. It was a ton of fun!! Benjamin's class dressed as Thing 1-15 from "The Cat and the Hat" book. Benjamin was Thing 9. Funny! Cait wanted to go as her her favorite Seuss character from her favorite book ever...Cindy Lou Who from "The Grinch Stole Christmas." She was a pretty little Cindy Lou Who with a big bow on her head!
Here's some pics from the parade...

Cait in her "Cat in the Hat" hat


Here's "Thing #9" with his crazy blue hair! Notice Thing 10 and 11 are right behind him!

Friday afternoon we raced home from school, had a super quick lunch, put on our best duds and raced out the door. Keith, one of the owners of the School of Music where I work, was playing in a production of "Beauty and the Beast." He plays trombone professionally as well as owns the company that places all these professional musicians for performances like this. He got me 3 free tickets for the Friday matinée to see "Beauty and the Beast." We were SO excited!! We read books to prepare for our outing..."Beauty and the Beast" and"Zin, Zin, Zin, A Violin" (about the different instruments in the orchestra). Here is a picture of the kids right before we went in the music hall. Aren't they adorable???


The performance was great!! I was so impressed! The musical was enough to have my kids talking for weeks, but to top it all off...guess who was waiting in the foyer greeting the guests after the show??? You guessed it! None other than Belle herself!! Here is Cait meeting Belle in awe.




The young man who played the part of Gaston came out afterwards in his street clothes. He approached us and reached his hand out to shake hands with Benjamin. Benjamin looked terrified and buried his head in my stomach and bawled! He was so scared of him! It was sad. Cait shook his hand though. She wasn't afraid. To top the night off, we got invited to go to dinner with a few of the musicians from the orchestra. That was great fun! All in all, an amazingly fun Friday!