My son, the chameleon in Up With Kids

We started putting Spencer in spring soccer when he was 3 years old.  He loves it although he doesn't really do much other than run around.  We tried T-ball one year and he threw a fit every time we went.  After the 3rd time of hanging around in the heat for an hour for him to hit the ball twice we stopped making him go.  We also tried karate which he enjoyed for about a month and then he hated going there too and after a month of draggin him there we quit that.  Last winter we did Jr. Jazz basketball which he also enjoyed, even though he wasn't the most active there either.  We put him in a Little Gym sports class through kindergarten and he had a lot of fun there.  So I was trying to find something for him to do during 1st grade and I came across Up With Kids.  I thought it would be fun and good for him to maybe come out of his shell a bit.  He liked the idea so I signed him up.  After a couple months he started complaining about going so I told him he could choose to go or not go.  But if he didn't want to go it wouldn't be just a week we skipped.  We would be done for good.  Which means he wouldn't be in the actual play.  And the play was Rapunzel which was  one of the kids' favorite movies.  Plus Miss Nancy was so much fun that Spencer didn't really want to quit it altogether, just miss it once in a while.  So I had a talk with him that it was all or nothing and he agreed on all and didn't complain as much from then on.  Once he got in he had a blast.

In the play "based on" Disney's Tangled movie Spencer was a chameleon and a leprechaun (hence the "based on").  His play was the first weekend in May.  It was a really cute play.  Each kid had multiple speaking lines and sang a few songs and learned a couple little dances.  The last song ("At last I see the light") they even learned sign language to.  Spencer had a lot of fun with this.  Tessa and Clara also loved going to his play practices and going throughout the house singing and dancing Spencer's songs.  Months later both girls still request "At Last I See the Light" as their bedtime song.  I was really impressed with Up With Kids and Miss Nancy.  And I was very proud of my handsome star who was excellent at memorizing his lines and learned to come out of his shell a bit.  Here are a few pictures from the play.

My parents and in-laws and sister and her kids were all sweet enough to come and watch his play.  He even invited a few friends and two of them (Eric and Asher) came to watch him.  He worked really hard on this play and did an excellent job.