some play!

we took a little family trip out to seaside tonite to see charlotte's web, the play. brian's mom has been wanting to take the kids all summer, and we thought we'd tag along! we got there early enough to do a few things before the show started. first things first: sno-cones. i canNOT go to seaside without partaking in a frost bite's key lime pie snocone. mmmm.... now, i think this one was a little too light on the lime and cream-- a few bites actually tasted like ice and not key lime pie... but usually, this beauty tastes as good as a piece of key lime pie.


the kids had been talking about this sno cone alllll day long.... as you can see, caroline wasted no time in emptying her bowl! (she and ethan shared one.)


and amelia was enjoying every bite that daddy shared with her!


we also had time to take a quick picture in front of this beachy diner. our five in a row book for this week, night of the moonjellies, is about a little boy who helps at his gram's seaside diner, and on our way out to seaside, i realized that we'd get to see one tonite! i really wanted to point out all the similarities between the restaurant in the book and seaside's little diner, but we were too busy dodging ice that was being thrown by a group of kids!


after coming away ice-injury-free, we headed back to the amphitheater. brian and the kids kicked the ball around until the show started while kristie, nana, and i watched them all sweat profusely.


well, after all those bites of sno cone, i was not surprised when amelia got squirmy about 5 minutes after the show began.


i let her loose on the edge of the amphitheater, and she was a little energizer bunny... she loved running up and down the sloped grass, and falling down over and over didn't make her miss a beat.


i was glad to still be able to watch the show from the side. it was really a funny show, and it didn't hurt that this is was one of my favorite movies stories as a child (the book is in our "chapter books" pile, just waiting to be read!). here is wilbur with fern. the guy who played wilbur did a great job. really, they all did. but he was especially funny. i guess you'd have to be to play a talking pig. :)


ethan is at the point where he really gets a lot of humor, and it's so fun to watch him enjoy himself. he laughed and laughed tonite...


at least i got this picture of amelia while she roamed and roamed... what a stinker!


amelia saw my lens cap lying on the grass (sorry, honey!), hurried right over to it, and brought it to me. i laughed that she knew it belonged to me. my child would recognize a lens cap!


ethan is SO SURPRISED that you have not heard about the plays at seaside this summer!


they have three different ones going on during the week until august 9. we may just head back out there one more time before the summer is over. i want another sno-cone! the other plays look great, too!