Mommy Time

Today was the Mother's Day program at Travis's Kindergarten.

Travis was the star of the show.

Literally.

A week or so ago, his teachers sent home a note in the daily folder about the program, and explained that each kid was to dress up as a nursery rhyme character. They included each child's character assignment in that note.

If you can't tell, Travis's 'character' was the Little Star. You know, the Little Star. The famous one. The one that twinkles.

Not exactly a character, per se, but cute nonetheless.

It was our job to create the costume, they said it didn't need to be anything elaborate, so I had to talk Ben down from creating some cardboard monstrosity with battery-operated actual twinkling lights, that probably would have included some contraption that would have allowed Travis to be suspended from the ceiling because, clearly, that is much more realistic.

Instead I just went out and bought some yellow posterboard, made a front and a back, connected them with some yarn, then used the excess to make a pointy hat.

(The hat was Ben's idea.)

Today was the first day of onsite training from the vendor of our new management system -- the database migration I've been immersed in for three months now. We've got a real live guy that actually knows what he's doing that is in our office all week to get our people up to speed, and the first training for my unit was, of course, scheduled for the exact same time as my kid's Mother's Day program.

I only missed a teeny bit of training though, and my work peeps were nice enough not to give me a hard time about it.

Ben came too, but he didn't get the fancy set-up that I did.

Travis typed up a letter for me:

The kids all lined up in the cafeteria and sang the little nursery rhymes. The characters for each rhyme would come and stand in the center and, in some cases, do a little "skit".

In case you can't see Travis in the neon yellow outfit, that's him in between the clock from Hickory Dickory Dock and Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater.

Travis didn't really have much performing to do. I mean, the only action verb from his nursery rhyme is "twinkle".

I think he looked pretty twinkly though.

Thanks for an awesome Mother's Day gift, Travis!