A Date with Our Girl

While deliberating in Steve's office as to what to check off our summer list after my run Friday morning, we came upon an advertisement for a performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  One of Steve and my shared interests is musicals, if you can believe it. He has recently been playing the entire 90's movie production of Joseph for Maggie on YouTube, the one with Donny Osmond, so she has also become quite familiar with the music.  These days, she can be heard belting out  "Jacob and Sons" at any given moment in our house, and in fact, she actually insisted that I sing her entire Curious George bedtime story the other night to the tune of various musical numbers from Joseph. (My theory is that this particular musical was somehow ingrained into her psyche since we went to a performance when I was 8 months pregnant with her.)  So, of course, we had to take her.

That evening, we took a break from painting her room purple, #25 on the list (more pictures to come later), to take off on our first-ever parent-daughter date.

  After the sitter came for Bode, we whisked her off to Perkins, as she requested pancakes for supper.
Although she was sad for a moment, missing Bode, she soon recovered when her rainbow pancakes were served.

Missing Bode.

She ate ALL of that.

We had really good seats (second row!) at the Rochester church for the performance...until two women came and sat directly in front of us.

It got a little long, but Maggie sat very well through most of it.  While she was a little annoyed that the play didn't match the movie exactly, she still loved Pharaoh's performance the very best.  We are paying for the late night a little bit today with some fussing, but the hug and thank you from Mags today was well worth it.  Love her!