Aristocats Musical Theatre Camp

For the past two weeks Ally has been attending a Musical Theatre Camp for Disney's Aristocats. I originally signed her up for the Juniors Camp, which was only 1 week long and it was for 4-7 year olds, but I got an e-mail from the camp director asking if she was going into 2nd or 3rd grade this fall. I told her 3rd and she asked if I wanted to move her up into the Star Camp for 8-13 year olds and it was for 2 weeks. Not only was it for a week longer, but they stayed twice as long each day. I talked to her about it and she wasn't so sure and very nervous, but the camp director reassured me that it is a lot of fun, so we moved her up to the Star Camp. On the first day of camp all of the campers had to audition, which means they had to learn a 30 second portion of a song and perform it for the staff. Plus, they wanted you to know all of the songs prior to coming to camp. She practiced her little heart out learning the part and listened to that CD before camp started.

I picked her up after the first day and she LOVED it! Everything about it she loved! Singing, dancing, lunch time {AKA talking with friends!}, blocking {new theatre term for us!}. Needless to say I'm so glad we moved her up into the Star Camp. This was the first day of camp, checking her in.

We found out after the first day of camp that she got the part of Abigail Gabble, a goose! She has a couple of small lines and her own little song she shares with another goose, Amelia! She had dress rehearsal yesterday and today was the big day! She had two performances today and her last one is tomorrow. Here is my sweet girl all ready for the musical!

We were all so excited to watch her perform!! I even had tears come to my eyes this afternoon after I dropped her off for her call time before the show. This has been such a neat experience for her, it has been a blessing to not only her, but for us as well, to see how much she has loved it. She has tried a couple of sports, ballet/tap, American Heritage Girls, and all of that she has enjoyed and always asked to do it again, but just after a few days of this, we knew this was for her. She even told me one afternoon "Mom, I just fit in there, I just love it." Melted my heart.

The boys were filling out a Star for their sister before the show!

 Just trying to get a decent picture with Finn. And then check out the photobomber! #typical

Due to copyright laws I was unable to take any pictures or video during the play, but the Gabble Girls had such a FUN part in the performance. We had several people come up to her and tell her that the Gabble Girls were the favorite part! I would have to agree!! She also played an alley cat in a few other scenes where she sang and danced to a couple of songs.

So proud of my girl!! I could not stop grinning while she was on stage!

It was so sweet, Jase was really proud of her and impressed with the musical. At dinner Ally was trying to talk him into auditioning for a play later in the school year!

This guy loved watching his little princess up on stage!

And if I'm being honest, I think Finn laughed the most out of all of us!! He thought it was so comical, and I loved to see him catch the jokes and follow along! Even Mae found Ally on stage and would point her out! We watched both of her shows today and I'll go back tomorrow to finish it up. Shawn cannot make it tomorrow because he has to pick his nephew up from the airport, so we planned for all of the kids to ride with him, and I only bought one ticket. The show is now sold out for Sunday, but guess who wants to go and watch it again!?! FINN! Like really wants to go, in tears. I told him he can go with me and just sit on my lap. I mean, what do I do?!? I guess tell him no, but I just couldn't break his little heart.

One last thing. Maebry will fight me tooth and nail about outfits and shoes and hair styles...at 2 years old. Allyson still asks my opinion on what to wear, so it is hard to have two girls and them be total opposite in that area. BUT, Ally asked for a braid earlier this week and guess who wanted one too? We are calling it our Anna and Elsa braid, which helps I'm sure! Yesterday I put a little French braid in Mae's hair and then did it again today. I'm totally surprised at how well she sit still for me and let me do it! I'm going to keep rocking the braid until this phase runs out! #headstrong