This Diva Needs Her Stage

Sydney is turning 10 in July.  I have no idea how this happened.  I keep threatening to cancel her birthday so that she can't get any older.  Dylan thinks it's hilarious.  Sydney rolls her eyes at me.

SHE ROLLS HER EYES AT ME!

Are we there already?  I'm a bit freaked out.  So, we start talking about her birthday party, and she says that she wants a theatre themed party because, "Theatre and Musicals are my LIFE!"  After explaining that many of her friends would balk at having to sit in their pajamas watching Bernadette Peters in Into the Woods (silly kids, who WOULDN'T want that!) she broke down into full-on diva tears and saying that her birthday will be ruined if we don't have a theatre party.

I have NO idea where she gets this from.  Maybe I should have seen this coming from the following hints:

 This was her Christmas present (the scooter). The coat was from my mother-in-law.  She stopped traffic A LOT that day. (that also could have to do with the fact that she wasn't watching where she was going.)

For her fourth-grade multi-genre project, she chose Shakespeare, and has since become a complete Shakespeare fanatic.  Many an awkward conversation has been had over why Othello killed Desdemona.  Remember, this is the girl who thinks that life is glitter-pooping unicorns and doesn't know about the "birds and the bees."  So, she dressed up as the Bard for the parent presentation, and spent all night in character.

Continuing the love of the Elizabethan Era, we decided to visit the Renaissance Festival in Southern California.  She literally bounced the whole way there, and immediately spent all of her money on costume rental and those garland headband thingies (plural).  Then, pitched a fit when it was time to leave.

Now, we are prepping for her recital on Saturday.  She's in a jazz number and has decided that she's going to focus on tap next because "duh, Mom, you need tap for musicals."

She's in rehearsals for Bye Bye, Birdie.

I've created an almost ten-year-old, eye-rolling, Shakespearean-obsessed, tapping Musical theatre nerd.

I'm pretty proud, not gonna lie.