Cinderella's at the Big Dance

Today's skit was super fun, one of my favorites!  I've always fascinated by the combination of the "Cinderella" story with basketball teams, particularly because I always envision Cinderella actually playing basketball.  So today there was something like that going on stage.  We had the story of Joseph and his brothers in the Bible, and the comparison for our skit was Cinderella and her sisters.  Of course, things are quite different beyond that - you can see the visitation of the Basketball Fairy above, who has her own theme song that's pretty awesome.  It was a great skit and everyone did so well with it!  Here are some of the pictures that Maddie took of our skit, just part of an entire morning at KidPak.

Afterwards, Maddie had fun skating this afternoon!  She went down to Buford with friends from taekwondo and just had a great time at Skate Country, a place she hasn't been to in a few years.  But they had a great time together, and Maddie didn't do too bad with the skating!

The group went to the 5 Spot Cafe for lunch beforehand where Maddie got a Sante Fe omelette, and then they were off to skate for a few hours.  Meanwhile, Mom and I were over at Mellow Mushroom for a Pacific Rim pizza.  

It was a nice afternoon!  Today is Dr. Seuss' birthday, so in honor of the legendary author, we watched the movie "The Lorax," which was great.  We still have that Lorax mustache we picked up a long, long time ago.  So yeah, we each tried it on for a quick Lorax pose too!

We read tonight, and we're almost done with our book "Lords and Ladies."  We said our prayers, and then it was time for some sleep.  Goodnight!

Beignets

Okay, so Fat Tuesday is coming up, and so after Team Edge this afternoon, we drove down to Cracker Barrel to get some beignets!  We had a coupon, and we had an appetite, so this made for a nice meal after Maddie's workout and practice this morning at the studio.  It was a pleasant meal, although service was really slow - the food was good, as were those beignets!

This morning Maddie had her practice at taekwondo, and she had a private lesson after that, training for the upcoming tournament that she'll be attending in a few weeks.  She's wanting to get her feet wet with the competition, just to try it out, and she'll certainly be a little more prepared now.  

Today is the first of March, and so we're ready for St. Patrick's Day season.  We've been listening to a few of our standard themed music selections, and tonight we even saw "Luck of the Irish," which features St. Patrick's Day and basketball, the other theme of this month right now at KidPak.  

It was a quiet day otherwise.  I got my walking finished, and the Revelation studies continue.  Maddie and I went back to LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, and that was fun for an hour or so.  Tonight in reading, Magrat defeated the Queen of the Elves, and that was pretty cool to see this meek character stand up against the villains.  We're nearly done with that story, and although we could move on to the next Discworld novel in this series, there's also the Kingdom Keepers to consider - there's a new book, and we've got it ordered.  A special signed copy is heading this way, this one now signed to me!  Pretty cool, huh?  We had the author sign the last one for Maddie, but this final book in the series will be hopefully signed to me.  Seems appropriate given that I picked up that first book so many years ago in Disney Springs... wow, that was a long time ago.  Anyway, we may start reading those books again next, just to catch up.  Meanwhile, let's finish up this one story from Lancre - the elves have to be completely defeated!

Okay, time for sleep.  Tomorrow is church, and it should be a good day!