Week 279: Rock Stars, Songs, and Carnivals

Every now and then, your kids do some really crazy stuff, and some of the time it’s all right. The other day both Sam and Mandy got it securely in their head that they were going to be ROCK STARS –just like that, with all caps. They put on sun glasses, grabbed microphones (a toy mic for Sam and an empty toilet paper roll for Mandy) and proceeded to put on the most spastic show I’ve ever seen.

Mandy was perhaps the most impressive. Her on-stage theatrics involved enthusiastically flinging every one of her four (and at times I swear five) limbs in different directions, yet amazingly she seemed able to slingshot her center of gravity around so that she remained upright the whole time. Sam was, of course, the front man (er, front girl) for the band, and her shtick was repeatedly jumping up and doing scissor kicks and yelling the lyrics to their song, “We’re Rock Stars, Yeah!” Here’s a sample of the lyrics:


We’re ROCK STARS, yeah!
We come from California
We practice really hard
We can do jumps
And the splits
Rock star, yeah!
Rock star, yeah!
Stop laughing daddy
It’s not funny
Rock band I mean rock star, yeah!

Then Mandy would go into a frantic five minute drum solo, minus the drums.

Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera or camcorder anywhere near me and I wasn’t allowed to leave the show, but I hope to coax an encore out of them when I’m better prepared. I did, however get some pictures of them later in the weekend when we went to our annual parish carnival.

Sam was tall enough to ride almost all the rides this year and we splurged for the bracelet that gave her unlimited runs. She made the most of it and particularly enjoyed “The Avalanche” ride where she went way up high and then fell to her certain doom. I particularly like this picture, which is one of my few successful attempts at using the “panning” technique to grab a moving subject so that she’s in focus while the background is motion blurred.

Mandy, after one tentative and ultimately terrifying trip on the teacups, cleaned up at the carnival games and earned herself all sorts of plush things that will soon clutter up my living room. I got a sunburn. So everyone got something!

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3 thoughts on “Week 279: Rock Stars, Songs, and Carnivals

  1. this show is one i would really like to see, they may grow up
    to be like the rolling stones. or madonna.
    good work girls
    nana

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