My Stink Bug

It has taken me forever to get these pictures up. Again, no surprise. W's first play was on March 25th. It was "The Bugz Play" for his Kindergarten. He was so cute!! The pictures don't do him justice. I know I'm prejudiced, but he was beyond amazing.

He went right up to the microphone and spoke his lines - he had quite a few - clearly and distinctly. He wasn't nervous at all.

He remembered all of the songs and the dancing.

The costume nearly killed me. I was so sick from being in my first trimester that the last thing I wanted to do was make a costume. And of course he picked a very detailed stink bug to make.

(Really, who's fault is that - I gave him a choice. What did I expect?)

And of course I waited until the last minute and couldn't find sweats in the right color. And of course I ran out of dye the night before it was due at school (several days before the actual play so I had a little wiggle room.) And of course he was the cutest thing on the stage that night!

I was kind of miffed because they didn't help him tie his pants and he had to keep pulling them up his first few times across the stage. (He walked across the stage several times while the rest of the kids yelled "Pee-yew!") Nor did they didn't bend his antennae out of his face so they hung straight down. And, really, what is up with that make-up? We parents were told to take our seats and they would help the kids get dressed. I think next time I'm going to have to be "that Mom" and stay with him whether they like it or not. The make-up got all over his costume, too, which is awesome. Enough griping.

Anyway, we had a hard time getting out of the building after the play because so many people came up to congratulate him on his performance.

I am still so proud I could burst.

That's my boy!