Rhyan's 1st play

At the end of Feb. (yes, i'm that behind), my sweet friend, Terrilyn, invited Rhyan to see her daughters in a play. It was at the new dawn theater and was a preschool performance of Snow White's Birthday Surprise. It was $5 a ticket so i couldnt pass it up :-)

What a GREAT first experience in a theater! Rhyan looooves Marley and Mackenzie (Terrilyns beautiful daughters... btw, Terrilyn is my friend who does all the kids pics! she's sweet AND talented... you can check out their website at www.orpheusandaphrodite.com). They were 2 of the 7 dwarfs... and they were ADORABLE!

The premise of the play... the evil stepmother isnt dead... she's planning her next attack. The prince wants to plan for snow white a surprise bday party and the evil stepmother guises herself as the best party planner. She puts a spell on the dwarfs hoping they'll ruin the birthday party by acting silly and then poisons snow white's birthday cupcake... only to have the "mirror mirror on teh wall" magically released from his spell (b/c of a group hug by the dwarfs) and therefore able to reveal the evil stepmothers wicked plan to "off" snow white.

It was cute. The play included audience participation... VERY geared towards preschoolers. Rhyan got to go on stage once and participate but was pretty shy about it. She really is a "sit back and take it all in" kind a girl.
Gran met us there. Ronni goes to several plays from time to time (in fact, shes taking myself and my SIL, Liz to see motherhood the musical this coming sunday as our early bday present!) so i thought she'd get a kick out of being a part of Rhyans first theater experience since its something she enjoys, herself!
After the play was over and we went out to catch a pic, Mackenzie (in orange) told Rhyan "i'm so proud of you for coming on stage, Rhyan. You were SO brave!". I'm telling you, Mackenzie is quite possibly the most kind hearted, encouraging, loving little girl i've ever known. Her big Sis, Marley is equally as precious... but Mackenzies "words of affirmation" love language resides quite well with myself and Rhyan :-)
We had a GREAT time. Rhyan talked about it the whole way home! We went by discover mills to get some tennis shoes for Rhyan and mack on the way home (where she suckered me into paying way too much for light up shoes... they ARE adorable, though!) and she talked about how fun the play was the entire time we walked around. Hopefully, she'll love the arts as much as her Mommy and Gran!