My father and Harriet came to visit for the weekend to see Daniel's and Molloy's dance recital. In the morning, Lev had a baseball game at 9:30 am and Daniel had a baseball game at 11:00 am. Then Daniel and Molloy (and backstage helper-mom, Kerrie) all had to be at the Stamford Palace theatre by 1:00 pm for a 2:00 pm showtime start.
So my dad, Harriet, and I went to Lev's game in the morning. He got up to bat 4 times (coach-pitch) and had four fielder's choices; actually, at this age everything is a fielder's choice because no one knows what to do with the ball when it's hit to them. They have a 6-run mercy rule and each game is 6 innings. So the score ends up being something like 36 to 36 because each inning gets called before there are 3 outs. But each kid still thinks he's Derek Jeter or A-Rod with their batting gloves and cleats (they actually tap the dirt off their shoes when they are up at bat). I even think some of these kids are taking steroids and chewing tobacco.
After Lev's game we caught the end of Daniel's T-Ball game where Daniel had 3 base-clearing home runs! (Actually, he batted last and when the last kid hits, the whole team runs all the way around the bases to end the inning.)
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Then we (my dad, Harriet, Lev, and I) went to the theatre in Stamford. The show was called "You Got Served" and each song had some sort of relation to food. There were about 45 dance routines put on by their dance school and many of the students danced in 7 or 8 dances. The ages ranged from age 3 right up through High School. Daniel and Molloy, however, each only had one dance.
Molloy was dance number 17 (On Top of Spaghetti) and Daniel's was after the intermission and number 37 (I'm the Ice Cream Man). During each routine, parents crouched in their chairs and covered the bright video display screen to secretly videotape their kids (which is not allowed). I also got some video and will post it in this entry as soon as I figure out how.
Molloy's group came out wearing beautiful little red dresses and carrying large "meatball" props as big as their heads. I'm sure you all know the lyrics:
On top of spaghetti
All covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed
So which of the eight cute little girls wrongly dropped her meatball halfway through the song? Welcome to the big leagues, Molloy! So there went her poor little meatball rolling away with two little girls chasing after it while the others continued to pantomime their little dance moves. They finally chased it down (before it "rolled right out the door") and returned it to her and the whole audience broke out in applause without the song even being finished. All the backstage moms were asking Kerrie when she returned why everyone was applauding before the song had ended.
Daniel went later, dressed like Van Halen in the MTV video pushing out his ice cream cart with a harem of scantily clad little girls (also just like Van Halen). He had a few tap moves and choreographed his cart around the stage before handing out ice cream cones to little girls. Oh boy is he gonna get chicks when he is older!
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Meatballs and ice cream; could I have spent this dance lesson money any more wisely?
