Selfie girl

This one loves to steal my phone and take selfies of herself.



Emma

Caitlin and I at the Emma play.  Caitlin will be in the next play at this theater!

Some good news, though

Yesterday, we did hear back about the play Caitlin auditioned for.  This is the email I received:

Caitlin, 

Thank you for coming to audition for Springhouse Theatre's production of Mark Twain Presents: the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I am pleased to offer you a non speaking role and the understudy for Becky Thatcher & Mary Sawyer. 

Because of the strong turn out for these auditions I am going to double cast this role in the play (and many others roles as well). Your Cast will be performing the evening show(s) on the 8th, 16th, 22nd, and the 3:30 performance on the 24th. The decision to double cast will also require some adjustment to the rehearsal schedule you were shown at auditions. Your rehearsal requirements will not be any heavier than you saw, but we will probably need to work in a couple of different days to accommodate two casts. 

Please respond to this email indicating if you will accept this role, and I look forward to working with you.

Caitlin wasn't as thrilled as I was.  She only saw the "non speaking role" part.  I asked her how many girls tried out for the female teen roles.  She said probably about 50.  Once I pointed out that with the double casting, 4 girls were cast above her for Becky and Mary and that she came in 5th out of 50 girls, when she was one of the youngest that tried out (and not even a teen), she felt a little better.  For her 1st community theater audition, I think she did amazing!  She was even joking about how to take out one of the leads so she can take over.  She kids, she kids!!

Sad news

Yesterday, Caitlin had a hard day.  She found her beloved Percy dead and was heartbroken.  She went to school in tears and was sad all day.  Because school was 2 hours late, I was already at work when she found him.  All I could do was talk to her on the phone and cry a little with her and tell her I loved her.

After school, Rusty took her to get ice cream and helped her through her grief.  He even buried Percy in the backyard.  When I got home, I laid with her on her bed and we cried a little.  I sure do love that girl.  I can't stand to see her sad!!

Audition

On Jan 30, Caitlin had an audition for Adventures of Tom Sawyer at a local theater group.  She was auditioning for 1 of 3 teen female roles.  At auditions, there were a ton of girls there and Caitlin looked SO young compared to them.  Last Tuesday, I got an email that she got a callback.  They wanted her to come back and read again.  This is her text to me while she was waiting to read. They had her only read for the part of Becky, the lead girl. No matter what happens, I am so proud of her.  She is fearlessly going after what makes her happy!

Another one bites the dust

Alaina came home from school yesterday with a surprise.  She had pulled another tooth at school.  This one was only a little loose so she must have worked on it all day to get it to come out.  So in 7 days, she has lost two teeth and Caitlin has lost one.  Tooth Fairy is going broke!

Gymnastics

Alaina had been asking to do gymnastics for quite a while so I finally did some research and signed her up for a free trial.  She absolutely LOVED it!!

Saturday

Saturday we went to see Matilda.  It was so so cute!  It is now Caitlin's favorite musical ever.  And she is even more decided that she will be doing musicals one day as her career.

Also, on the way to the musical, she was eating some chewy candy and a tooth (that was NOT loose) came out!