After parent/teacher conferences tonight, I beat it over to New Heights Elementary School (just a couple blocks from the high school where I teach) for my daughters' music program How Does Your Garden Grow? It was cute, choreographed, and well decorated. The children played characters related to plants and gardening, and the gardener's name was Herb. You now have an indication of the tenor of the show's plot and mood!
In it, Suzanna was a scarecrow, and Abigail was a weed. The weeds had a fun breakdancing, funk-style number. Abigail had to dress all in green, and she wore a grassy-looking headpiece that she made in school. When she added her sunglasses for the dance, she was the coolest weed I had ever seen! Susan made Suzanna's costume by sewing patches onto an oversized pair of overalls, attaching a stuffed blue bird to her shoulder, and stuffing raffia into her sleeves to look like straw. Suzanna did well with her speaking lines, and she was honored to be asked to play the scarecrow in both the 7:30 P.M. show (she and Abigail's scheduled time) and the 6:00 one as a substitute for the sick child who was supposed to play the scarecrow then.
We usually take the girls to Dairy Queen for a treat following a music program or play performance, but since we knew it would be too late tonight, Susan took them there for supper and ice cream before the shows. My buttons were popping off my shirt with pride as I watched them on stage! I hope this is the beginning of many, many more nights ending in trips to the Dairy Queen . . .
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