Seventh grade is the year the kids can start doing all the extracurricular activities and playing in school sport. Allison has been trying to squeeze in as many of those activities as she can. I love that she is so willing to try new things.
Allison decided before Christmas Break that she wanted to be in the school play. Tryouts were first thing in January. She was cast as Spy #1. The first few days of practice they read through the play and her part wasn’t really a part so she decided to switch to the stage crew instead. About a week later the director sent an email out that said she needed someone to play the dead body because the person that was doing it was no longer able to do it. Allison replied back and was soon the dead body for the play. She played a once rich but recently destitute millionaire that was murdered. She laid dead on the couch for the entire play while the rest of the characters tried to figure out who the killer was. At the very end she stands up and acts out what happened when she was killed for about 10 seconds then sits on the couch again. I didn’t see her move a muscle or crack a smile the entire 1 hour and 45 minute play. She did a great job and said she had a lot of fun and enjoyed being in the play. I think she will do it again next year.
The same week of Allison’s play performance, she had an orchestra concert too. Here are the two songs she played. She is third up from the bottom of third row in from the right.
Allison talked me into going on a run with her one morning in March. We ended up at HyVee and decided to get a bunch of fruits that we had never tried before. It was one of Allison’s bucket item lists. So we picked out a few and and found enough other things to get that we called Matthew and he came and picked us up instead of running home with a bunch of groceries.😊 We liked the dragon fruit the best. The golden berries and the pomelo were ok. The kuwanon was gross. The activity was priceless. Allison absolutely loved it. Everyone else tried them too- except Emilee refused to try all of them except the golden berries and dragon fruit.
