Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Amazingly, C-bao is coming to the end of her year in the Rainbow Dolphin class at her school, and in celebration of a great year her class put together a spring musical.

The musical was Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, and C-bao was assigned an important role as one of the Gardeners.

By the way, C-Mum astutely noticed that the key sign with the show name had a number of, um, "autographs" repeated several times in 3 or 4 places on the sign.

Here the performers enter the outdoor stage area, to great fanfare and applause.



Here are a couple of snippets of the story narration and accompanying songs.


Both C-Pop and C-Mum attended the show, and  Aunt Christina cut short her workday and came all the way up from South San Francisco to catch little C-bao in action. Aunt Christina brought a nice flower for our star performer.

Snap

C-bao has been introduced, at a very young age, to Snapchat. Yes, the always trendy Aunt Christina (a.k.a. Xiao Ah-Yi) showed up the other night and introduced the nifty face swapping features of the popular Millennial app. Needless to say, the girls were very entertained.

Baking

Last night, C-bao caught wind of the fact that Aunt Chris (Xiao Ah-yi) was considering baking some gingerbread cookies. C-bao had recently experienced a Gingerbread Workshop at her sister's school, and it was nothing but sugary goodness. Naturally, she wanted in.

C-bao: "Let me make the dough, Aunt Chris."
Aunt Chris: "Not today, C-bao. You have to go to bed."
C-bao: "Make me a deal!"
Aunt Chris: "A deal? What type of deal?"
C-bao: "Today, we make it. Tomorrow, we bake it. And then, we eat it!"

That little bit of cleverness almost got C-bao out of her bedtime. However, and luckily for the C-folks, Aunt Chris remained firm.

Tonight, the making, baking and eating all happened at once. Above, C-bao sees the gingerbread cookie-making up close, along with her sister and cousins. Below, enjoying her fresh gingerbread cookies - pre-dinner, of course.