The Littlest Pilgrim

Today was the kindergartener's Thanksgiving play. Linda was a Pilgrim. Her line: "There is cranberry sauce and big turkey stuffed with dressing." She said her part clearly and stood for a moment--posing to give me a chance to get a picture in. Unfortunately, the camera I was using was too slow to take many pics during the show, and there were too many parents and grandparents in front of me for a good view (what were they thinking?). But no worries, I got a few in, and she was just as cute a pilgrim immediately after the show as during.

Here is Linda singing and signing "God Bless America". All the kindergarteners did such a good job on that. I was most impressed.

Here's what she should have looked like while saying her line, though she (like almost all the others) forgot to bring up her prop. See, after can be better. Revisionist photography. Ha!

The play was interspersed with cute Thanksgiving songs among the short lines each child had.

First was God Bless America.

Then there was a song about fat turkeys, gobble, gobble, gobble (words following, since Linda's here to sing it to me now. It was very cute).

There was 10 little Pilgrims and 10 little Native Americans and 10 little children.

Gobble, gobble, gobble, Fat turkeys, fat turkeys.

Gobble, gobble, gobble, Fat turkeys are we.

We're not for Thanksgiving

We're just for the living

Gobble, gobble, gobble Fat turkeys are we.

After the main part of the play, each child stood up and said one thing they were thankful for. Almost everyone said they were thankful for their family, with a few "thankful for chocolates" tossed in there. Linda's friend Brilee said "I'm thankful for all the people who came to our play", which drew many "awww's" from the crowd. My little Linda stood up, smiled sweetly, and batted her eyes at me as she said "I'm thankful for my Mama!"

Yes! I love having a child who still loves me almost all the time! This picture is from the play. I very rudely stood up in front of everybody to get it. I wasn't going to miss this shot.




After the play, there was a craft to do. Here's a pic of my very hardworking little Pilgrim working on her Tree of Thanks. Each leaf had something she was thankful for written on it. Included are: home, church, sisters, grandparents, pets, friends. I'm sure she could have kept on going, but they ran out of leaves and time. No worries. There was still enough time for her to pose for a picture with her mama and her mostly complete, but not quite colored Tree of Thanks.
I am thankful for my sweet Linda.