So this is Booker, the youngster I babysit, during his first birthday party and before his very first sugar rush from birthday cake, so he is mellow and being the gracious host saying hello to every guest. Little did he know that soon he would be rudely acquainted with his first jack-in-the-box (which some kids found cute, since it was a friendly furry monkey that popped out and not some horrible clown like the nightmarish ones from my all too distant, yet vivid, childhood).Anyhow, much fun and food and cake was had that day.
It was a big birthday month, I was gleeful to have kazzoed Happy Birthday for a friend at the Sidecar Bar in BK later in the week, plus performed a kazoo accompaniment to "I put a Spell on You" with Screaming Jay Hawkins on the jukebox--to favorable reviews!
Yesterday was the Puppetry Arts Family Carnival where lots of us volunteers helped kids make puppets of all kinds, whether we knew how or not--we improvised. At our table we made many a paper bag puppet--it's amazing what kids will like! Low budget, but still fun! Especially when our puppets sang. Puppets seem real, it's weird. Kids are genuinely sweet, too; some kids made puppets to give as gifts to some of the costumed performers! Ahh, compassion is alive and well! The yoga kids this week have been loving their yoga class--one kid yelled out "I love yoga!" during a stretch. Cool, best week ever.
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