My little turkey!

Sarah has had many firsts this year and this weekend was no exception. Sarah's preschool had their annual family Thanksgiving dinner and show and she participated in her first play on stage in front of an adoring crowd. I'll bet most of you are thinking "she will be right at home on the stage, she is such a ham". Not even close. Before I get ahead of myself, I will show you photos as the night unfolded.

This is Allie. She is a little girl that goes to the same daycare as Sarah. She also attends preschool with Sarah. She is truly one of the sweetest children I have ever met!

I can safely say that this is Sarah's first best friend. Chris says that Allie is patiently waiting for Sarah at the door of Mrs. Joan's house every morning when he drops her off. Then they spend a few minutes screaming, dancing, and hugging one another until he leaves. Here is proof of their undying friendship.

We feel so blessed to have this little girl in Sarah's life. It is so gut wrenching as a Mom to drop off your children for an entire day, leaving their safety and happiness in the hands of others. We are so thankful to have a great caregiver like Mrs. Joan and wonderful friends like Allie to make our absence less of an issue.

Now, it is almost show time. Sarah's class will be turkeys for the play that is about to begin.

As you can see, Sarah is pretty excited about the night at this point. But emotions are about to change...

I moved my way into the auditorium to hear Mrs. Sabrina welcome all of the parents to the play and dinner.

They began with the ABC's of Thanksgiving.

Sarah is bringing up the rear.

Her terror is evident from the moment she walked out. She was so scared that the tears were welling up, but no sound came out. She did not move unless someone touched her.



Here is a grainy video taken from my digital camera. The teachers tried to calm her, but it wasn't working.




She did tough it out for a few minutes, but her fears got the best of her when her eyes met mine (I knew it was over). She said in a shaky voice "I want my Mommy". She came off the stage and into my lap. I tried to coax her back on stage to no avail. She said "It is so big". I was torn between telling her everything was fine, "just stay with me" and "get back on that stage". I decided to compromise. I told her that if she would walk back up on stage, I would squat down behind her. She lit up!

As you can see, I did climb on stage and sat right down behind her. She finished the play with a smile on her face! I hope this was a wise Mom moment. It made sense at the time. We shall see when the next play comes along...

Here is the end of the play. She let me go back to the front row for a photo. Check out the relief on her face. She danced off the stage saying "It's over, it's over!" I guess we don't have a budding Britney Spears on our hands (thank goodness).

Afterwards, the congregation provided the preschool families a delicious Thanksgiving feast. There are so many amazing families at North Lexington that give of great amounts of time and effort for God and friends.

We were lucky to have Amy and Mamaw Coleman in attendance. They seem to have had a great time as well.


This is Zoe, another little girl who attends Joan's daycare.

I had to include these last photos. This is Noah (or as Sarah refers to him "Baby Nono") . He is Allies little brother and Sarah's favorite little man. He is so sweet but mischevious. Here he found a nice tennis ball to play with. The only problem was, it was attached to a lady's walker!

He quickly became her sidekick all around the building until Mom drug him away from his new toy. "Shucks".

All in all, it was a fun night with friends and family. Sarah fought her fears and went home feeling successful. I cannot ask for more.

Until next time,