Let the Holidays Begin...

 Many months ago we bought tickets to Cirque de Soleil's Holidaze show for dear friend Mary Jane's retirement.  Well, today was show day.  We went to a fabulous lunch at Ceres Bistro in Worcester, then headed to the Hanover theater for the show.  Here's the guest of honor with her biggest fan:

Still cute once in a while:

The show was simply heart-stopping and we were all spellbound by the sights and sounds:

(all pics from internet, not from the actual show today)

Some of the acts and things the performers' bodies did were nail-biters!  (actually this was taken before we left....can't believe my girl has somehow recently "inherited" my long-time childhood habit)

The acts with the girls were of course Bea's faves:

                                                  

and the gingerbread flipping was just incredible!

The best of friends, food, colors, and entertainment all in one afternoon. Doesn't get better than that! It even snowed briefly and the few Christmas lights that are up about town looked magical.

Meanwhile when we got home, our own "Circus soufflé" or "Circus olay" started:

 We didn't hang a rope and hula hoop from the ceiling, but this whirling dervish spun nonetheless!

She wants to do backbends like the superhuman little girl in the show whose body bent like a Gumby doll:

 I know the scenes in her head will appear in her artwork for weeks.  Here's the first segment of the roller skating act:

 Lolo and Lola arrive soon and we're hoping to get the Christmas lights on the house tomorrow.  We are also volunteering at the food pantry in the afternoon, our second year to do so.  It's a big week ahead and I'm starting to settle into this holiday season thing pretty nicely.  Someone else in the house, however, has been scoping the catalogs for weeks now and Santa's list is growing longer each day...

and the last activity of the day, "Daddy Going to Work" (she sometimes divides words with lines), shows Daddy between his car and the shop,  complete with earrings, his messenger bag, his keys, and "a piece of wood so George can make a neck for a new guitar."  My little artist has definitely taken her work up a notch the past few weeks.  She literally can spend hours drawing, and she and Anthony drawing together is one of her favorite things.