Broadway Babies.

This weekend we took the kids to see one of the family friendly productions at South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa. Tim and I are already season ticketholders to their regular shows, and have really enjoyed every one we've seen. And we figured, if we're going to raise the kind of kids who will eventually be season ticketholders themselves, we need to make an investment now.

The show was called Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, based on a children's book about Chinese fables. The kids did a great job of sitting and paying attention and enjoying it. Adam was a little fidgety, and Ellie was a little underwhelmed, trying to pretend that she was too grown up for a play for kids (she's seen Hamilton, after all!) But they had a fun time, and we had a great time taking them.

Our return to routine has been pretty good. Both kids were thrilled that their classmates had had given them Valentines and their teachers had saved them. We had some good baseball practices and a couple of basketball games (though baseball opening weekend was rained out - okay by me as Adam had two sports in the same hour slot on Saturday.) Because the kids were gone only three days, and not a whole week, the teachers weren't required to give them any of their homework or class work. Since I was just calling them out for a personal day each day, I didn't even bother to ask. However, Adam's teacher gave him his regular home work packet from the week before to complete along with the rest of his work this past week with a note attached.

As you can see, Adam wasn't super jazzed about the additional work load. But, we did get it done and turned back in (though I did ask if we could have the weekend to get it done. What's the worst that could happen - he gets a B in first grade?) His teacher was very understanding, and his amendments to the note made her laugh as well.