the Gold Rush is over!

[Guest guest]

's classes ended up their California Gold Rush unit today with

two performances of " Gold Dust or Bust " (AKA The Gold Rush play).

Although she was encouraged by both her 1:1 and teacher to try out for a

speaking part, she told them " no thank you, I might be embarassed. "

There were actually very few speaking roles, and the majority of the

kids were part of the chorus, singing about 10 songs about different

parts of the Gold Rush. In the past, has not been very

thrilled to participate in the grade level performances, but has been

improving every year.

Well, today we saw maturity and confidence (and quite a bit of smiling

and waving, LOL.) stood the entire time in her spot, front

row, right on the end (in case she needed to escape, LOL) and sang every

song! She did some of the had movements too, but seemed to be

concentrating on the music more. She looked so cute... of course, it

never got home to me that they needed to wear a costume, luckily, when

picked her up from her classmates house (after our 4.5 hour IEP

yesterday.... that's another story!), and 's friend said " Hey

Lizzie, don't forget to wear your costume tomorrow! " So, after

collecting all the kids at 7 pm (after the marathon IEP), running

through fast food, tells me " hey, when I picked up , her

friend said something about a costume.... " Now it's 8 pm, I'm calling

around (becauase there is nothing in the past 2 weeks of daily

communication log OR in her planner OR homework folder) asking " what is

the costume supposed to be??? " The answer, jeans and a flannel shirt.

Well, here in Southern California, flannel shirts are not exactly daily

wear, and hates jeans (and doesn't own any.... she's a skirt

girl), so in desparation I grabbed a peasant skirt from big sis, a too

small but denim vest from little sis, and her beloved hand-me-down pink

Ugg-type boots, topped with braids and a pink bandana... she was soooooo

adorable! I was so proud of I didn't even ruin it by telling

the teacher " hey, this could have totally gone the other way because I

didn't know about the costume.... did you even THINK about writing it

down for her????????? " I'll save that for the continuation of the IEP

meeting, LOL.

I just uploaded a photo... should be in soon I guess. It's under Kerrigan.

, mom to (12), (10 DS) and Sammy (8)