Puppets

Craft time has reached an all-time high in the Rowe household, with Julia constructing, all on her own, her next autumn's Halloween costume.  Thanks to all her hard work, she is now well-prepared to be a kitty cat:

Furthermore, the girls got busy constructing their own puppets today, inspired by the marionette performance of "Hansel and Gretel" we saw at the library this afternoon.

Among these hand-made puppets are a mommy and daddy seal,:

A mermaid,:

A killer wall,:

A daddy penguin and his daughter,:

and a mother and child hippopotamus polar bear pair:

Ethan and I were fortunate enough to be audience members in the official puppet show performance, which, naturally, went as flawlessly as one could imagine.  You can tell how much effort they put into a formal script and how much prep work and rehearsals they did before hitting the big stage:



I would offer to take a virtual bow myself, as author of this post, but I can't, because NO IT'S NOT THE END!