Mother Goose was on the loose ...

at Clara's school about a month and a half ago.  This is their fall program that they do and it's filled with all sorts of Mother Goose nursery rhymes. 

Clara decided she wanted to be a sheep (as in Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep), and one of her good friends, Avery, was Little Bo Peep.  For her sheep costume, we started off by finding an old white t-shirt in Mike's drawer and then we started gluing on cotton balls with the glue gun.  Well, by the time we had used one package of cotton balls and covered only about one third of the t-shirt, I decided maybe this wasn't the way to go.  So we looked in the costume closet at the school (which I had somehow not managed to find out about even though Gracie has spent the last two years doing lots of performances that require costumes!).  And we found a great looking sheep outfit - it was white, fluffy and just the right size.  We popped it on quickly, found a headband to match and I figured we were good to go. 

On the day of the performance, about a half hour before we needed to go, I told Clara we needed to get her into her costume. We got it on and about five minutes later, she was miserable.  The costume was hot and itchy and the headband wouldn't stay on.  Oh, dear - I'm not the world's most creative person, and that was one reason I had been so thrilled to find a costume already made.  But I guess necessity is really the mother of invention, because we whipped together something in about 10 minutes: Clara's own white t-shirt, black leggings, a skirt fashioned out of  the t-shirt that I had ripped the cottonballs off of (it was semi-fuzzy looking), cut the feet off of black socks to use for "legs" (slip onto the arms) and then use the bottom of the socks for ears pinned to a black headband.  Pssshewww .. we made it.  And she looked pretty cute!
 

Here's her whole class. They had a bunch of spiders, Little Miss Muffet, Little Bo Peep, a couple of sheep and the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker.

Clara did great during the program.  I didn't take any video this time - I tried to snap a few photos, but I decided just to sit back and enjoy the show this time.  I think the whole last minute costume redo had worn me out!  So here's a happy Clara in the middle of one of their songs:

And I couldn't get any pictures of this, but they always do a version of the Itsy, Bitsy Spider at the beginning of the program.  The kids slip on all black shirts and have on white gloves.  Then they use a glow light and it's great fun to watch their fingers as they make the spider crawl up and down and all around!

After the program, the kids have a "carnival" of Mother Goose based games.  Clara had been before with Gracie, but it was still lots of fun.  Here she is doing "Jack & Jill."


John Michael got in on the "action," too.  Well, he's supposed to be doing the cake walk, but once he had that ring pop, he just sat in the chair! Who cares about cake when you've got a ring pop!