m.a.i.l. t. ime: the BFG

Kammy has been a wonderful friend to our little Isaiah since the day he was born (litterally). I've mentioned Kammy several times on my blog; you can go here to read a little more about who she is. For Isaiah's birthday Kammy's family bought Isaiah a ticket to see the play the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) at the community children's theater. (What a great idea, huh?)

They were so creative that they gave him the book of the BFG so he could read it before the play (which he refused to do -- it's a bigger chapter book and I think it intimidated him! haha maybe he'll want to read it now that he knows what it's all about) and a bunch of snacks (did you know they make granola bars with sprinkles in them? or what about crackers with chocolate in the middle instead of peanutbutter???). He was so focused on the snacks that he didn't really realize that he got to go to a play with her. Well, a couple weeks ago I reminded him about the play and he was SOOOOOOO excited and asked daily for the next 12 days when he got to go. We were doing a count down (which was hard because he doesn't really understand the concept of days/weeks/etc yet). But the countdown finally ended yesterday afternoon!!

He was so excited all morning - I told him that we the plan was to go to church, make lunch, eat lunch and then they'd come get him -- so he wanted to go to church IMMEDIATELY after waking up (which didn't happen) he wanted to make lunch RIGHT when we got home (didn't happen again - we don't normally eat lunch before 11am:) and then he expected them to be there as soon as we were done eating (again - not the case)...so it was a L . O . N . G . morning for him. but they finally came (right on time) and off they went to the play. He came home so happy, so excited! Sounds like he was completely mesmerized by the whole play and watched intently the ENTIRE time. I'm not surprised either - I tried to explain to him what to expect, but he kept asking if it would be like a movie. (He asked if it was at the same theater as the one by the mall, if the people in the play would be up on a big screen, etc).

What fun!! He already has plans to go to 4 more plays -- we were looking at the program from the play and it listed the upcoming plays and he decided we are going to ALL of them! :) Hopefully we will make it to at least one more of them, I'll keep you posted!