Tokyo is apparently in the middle of an influenza outbreak. So my "big kids"--I just used that phrase to describe my older two for the first time today, and was shocked at how apropos it is, except, when exactly did they get so big?!!--are perfectly healthy but out of school for most of this week. Enough children were absent Monday from their respective classes that the teachers ruled three days of rest as a better option. Exactly whom will be "RESTING" is an entirely different discussion.....
Once littlest got home from school, she and her sister were right to the tedious and exacting work of creating these puppets. That's right, they carefully cut these little paper figures off a calendar from two or three years ago--supplied by their grandmother, of course. Next step, find all the disposable chopsticks in the house and cut them in half. Finally, laboriously tape each teeny piece of paper to aforementioned stick. I'm sorry, I sound like I don't appreciate this project. I DO! Because they didn't ask me to help....
However, I was privileged to attend the show. I was called to task for looking at my phone while it was going on--for shame!--so I tried to cover my sin by grabbing these photos.
My sweet little ladies, so earnest and yet silly in everything they do. I am not completely sorry that I looked my phone during the show. After all, I was trying to stay awake.....
ONLY because the puppeteers are irresistible, well, I might be up for an encore. Of the show. Not the three days off school thing....two more to go....I am SO in favor of homeschool....for other people. Good night!
