MCC Magic of Musical Theater

As usual, a good portion of June is devoted to WORKSHOP. This year the kids had shows two night in a row, which was kinda fun. After the show the first night we went to celebrate with their #1 fan (daddy) at Nielsen's Custard. He was VERY good and brought them flowers and chocolates and all the things that adoring fans SHOULD be bringing! Ü You don't ever see me, but thats me on the piano as the musical director. My good friend Sanya came to our show the 2nd night. Afterwards the 4 of us went to Mimi's Cafe and went CRAZY trying almost EVERY dessert in the place!!!








Daddy was tasked with videoing WHILST Miss Waverly was on his lap. These are the songs that the kids had solos in or they were most PROUD of...

Let's Play Music Symposium

My Let's Play Music duties don't end at summer with our recital. I actually am the Director of Advertising and Events for the Administrative Board for Let's Play Music and June 17th- 18th we had our annual Convention Weekend incorporating our 2nd and 3rd year trainings with our big Symposium. Teachers from ALL over the United States flew in, and carpooled in to join us for a day PACKED with classes, workshops, presentations, motivational speakers, announcements, goodies, give aways, and of COURSE LOTS of prizes. A LOT of blood, sweat, sleepless nights, and tears went into the planning and execution of this event, and thankfully I had the amazing members of the Administrative/Advisory Board as well as our LPM Team Leaders to help bring the whole event together. All photos are provided by our event photographer Cherie Mask

The Attendees


The Administrative Board

(from l-r Marci Flowers, Melissa Lunt, Julie Fischbeck, Shelle Soelberg, Sanya Fenn, Jenny Smith)

Random Fun Throughout the Day--including a newborn, my own brother, AND thats right, our very first male teacher!

Swimming Lessons with Miss Sharisse

We had the HARDEST time trying to find someplace for swim lessons this year.  We finally got in contact with Miss Sharisse (who we went to TWO years ago) only to discover that the time of day that worked for us was at her location over by Westwood High School--YIKES!  But my kiddies are worth it, right?  Swim wasn't until 5:00 will actually was 'delightful' as i found i wasn't melting NEAR as much as I have remembered whilst waiting for the kids to get done.  I FINALLY remembered to bring my camera the last day, which ended up being more of a fun day, but at least I got some video of Waverly's 1st year (and some understanding of why she isn't really interested in getting in the water anymore Ü)

UN-Happy Memorial Day

Delainee and I decided we should make a cake for memorial day.  We had a fun time making the stripes with red strawberries.

Apparently Laetner wasn't too Happy about it! Ü

Goodbye Miss Green

The end of the school year meant a sad goodbye for Delainee to her special 3rd grade teacher Miss Green.  Miss Green had called and asked if Delainee could come at the end of school on the last day, so she could award her a special present.  Apparently Delainee was the ONLY student to have completed an entire math workbook, that Miss Green herself had created.  She presented Delainee with a special necklace.

Delainee will be hard pressed to find another personal supplier of Three Musketeer candy bars and tether ball partner at recess (even if she DID play with her left hand so as to make it easier on Delainee)

Waverly's End of the Year Preschool Program

It's the day of the show, ya'll! Ü  We have had such a fun (albeit) short time in Miss Kami's Preschool class this year.  They invited the parents to come join in the celebration of finishing out preschool.

First and foremost we had to get ready...

Then we showed off a few of our BEST moves..

Alright, maybe our ONLY move!
Posed with the BEST group of ladies.. 

And did what apparently Waverly came to do..

Cuz the performance wasn't our 'best' performance. Let's just say the video below should  be entitled from good to WORSE! Ü

Now i knew that Waverly hasn't been in the 'classroom' setting for very long. AND that she is one of the younger kiddies in the class. But after this performance I REALLY felt sorry for Miss Kami for putting up with Waverly's shenanigans! *sigh* WHY of WHY does it always seem to be MY child...