PetPourri

Some of you may be aware that my mother has been accompanying a local community theater for their production of PetPourri - a comical musical revue about pets. To support her and see where she has been spending all her time lately, we went to the theater to watch a performance.
It was a very cute show and we enjoyed it. Almost more enjoyable than the show was watching Jasmine and her reactions to the songs. She was mesmerized by it all and wanted so badly to be up there and have a go herself. She did a couple of funny things during the show that were of note.
First, when they were doing a song about a dog, they were pretending to pet this imaginary dog and Jasmine reached out and pretended to snatch the dog. She turned to me and said, "Mommy, I took the man's dog!" The second thing she did was during the short intermission. Since the theater itself is very small, in order to accommodate more people, they had a row of chairs right on the stage and we sat there. She went up on the stage during intermission and performed for the crowd. She was dancing and singing and did all her usual songs, God Bless America, I am a Child of God, Popcorn Popping, etc. Some of her songs had hand motions and I heard a lady behind me say, "Oh! She has choreography!" Everyone clapped and asked for more. Jasmine obliged of course and Mommy took pictures. The last thing she did that was quite funny was that they had a scene where a couple is sitting on a bench looking at an aquarium, of course it is pretend because there is no actual aquarium. This was center stage at the edge of where the chairs were and smack in front of Jasmine. As the couple sang the song about the fish and looked intently at their pretend aquarium, Jasmine grew quite disturbed. She leaned into me and said, "Mommy, they are calling me a fish and I don't want to be a fish." She thought they were singing to her and that they thought she was a fish. I had to stifle a giggle as I thought that was so cute and funny.After the show, we all congratulated Mom on her brilliant piano performance and the rest of the actors as well. We then went out together for a bit of dessert. It was a nice evening and we were so happy Jasmine enjoyed it as well.