Old Abigail MacDonald Co-Owned a Farm . . .

The Dickinson Press likes our children. I've written about this before, but even since then, the girls' photos have appeared in the newspaper (most recently they were snapped while participating in a kids' fitness class at the West River Community Center). This morning we opened the paper to discover a photo of Abigail performing in her elementary school music program a couple nights ago.

On Tuesday, March 18, the second- and third-grade students at the girls' elementary school had their music program, and Abigail played the role of Mrs. Old MacDonald in E-I-E-I Oops!, a farmyard-themed musical in which the animals try to convince the mute cow to moo. Along with Old MacDonald, the Farmer in the Dell, and Mrs. Farmer in the Dell, Abigail's character provides the narration that links the musical numbers and pushes the "plot" along.

Well, of course, Abigail was terrific. She was cute as a button in her farm wife garb (wearing one of my aprons for barbecuing), and she was confident and clearly audible on every line. Abigail was also fun to watch during the musical numbers that other groups of kids performed; she couldn't help moving her body to the rhythm of the song, bouncing up and down, mouthing the words--just getting caught up in the music as she watched them! Suzanna and Hillary had seen the program in the afternoon with their classes, but they were eager to see it again in the evening with Mommy and Daddy, telling me in advance which songs listed in the program were their favorites.

Yep, that's Daddy's apron!

A similar photo appeared in today's newspaper. That's Old MacDonald with the pitchfork, by the way. Does the pose remind you of anything?

Doesn't that just capture Abigail's spirit?!

[Faithful readers will recall that both Hillary and Suzanna already had their own star turns on stage this school year. If you're not a faithful reader, click the links in the previous sentence!]