WE SURVIVED!! We survived our first Nutcracker that is!! Liv performed on Saturday afternoon and in the final performance on Sunday, a sold out show by the way. She absolutely LOVED every second of it!! She was the MOST PRECIOUS little party girl on the stage, especially in the very first scene when her "daddy" was carrying her in his arms through the snow to the party! Afterwards I asked her what she thought about that snow. She insisted that it was real because it was cold and wet when it landed on her face. Her brother, of course, teased her and told her it couldn't be real snow inside the theater. She very quickly told him that it WAS real snow, magic snow!!

She also requested her first nutcracker. I figured she would want one! In the car on the way home AFTER asking me for a nutcracker, she asked me, "Mommy what IS a nutcracker anyway." I explained to her that it was just like it sounded, it was for cracking nuts. From the back seat I hear, "AWWWWWW! So the SQUIRRELS can eat them easier." LOL!! Yes baby that's JUST what they are for.............so kindly people can sit on park benches and make it easier on the poor little squirrel to eat their nuts!! There WILL be a nutcracker and a webkinz squirrel under the Christmas tree for one little princess this year!!

On the way to the show Sunday Liv says, "Mommy, The Nutcracker wasn't as much fun as I thought it would be." My heart SANK!!!! This was all she had lived and breathed for WEEKS!! I asked her why not. She responded, "All the bigger girls got to do TWO parts and I only got to do ONE part Mommy!" LOL! Well then, that's a different story!! It wasn't that she didn't enjoy dancing it was that she didn't get to dance ENOUGH!! She has her parts all picked out for next year also. She wants to be either the Sugarplum Fairy OR Claire!! LOL! I think you have a bit of growing and practicing to do Princess!! She finally conceded that it would be fun to be a mouse. But NOT the one who dies...............although she did agree that the death scene was pretty awesome!! Mommy thinks the marzipan lambs were adorable................maybe she would settle for that! LOL!!