Annie the Musical or Annie the Horse?

When we woke up this morning, we called Grandma Dotty in Tucson and chatted with her a bit. Of course, every time Maddie talks to Grandma Dotty she asks about her horse, Annie. Maddie loves horses as most children do. She always acts like a horse, galloping and neighing about, and her favorite movie is Spirit (aka: The Horsey Movie). She even enters her classroom every morning in a full gallop and gives our a big neigh to her teacher!

When we got off the phone with Grandma, we told Maddie that we were going to see the SAS Middle School musical at school that night. You should've seen the excitement in her eyes when we told her it was "Annie". As soon as I said Annie, I knew what she was thinking. We tried to explain all day long that we were getting on a plane to go to Tucson to see Grandma and Annie the horsey, but she thought we were just being silly. Even after we arrived at school and started watching the musical, she turned to me and said, "can we go to the airport now?" It was quite funny and quite sad all at the same time. It just goes to show the lasting impressions that family makes on our young ones throughout their lives!

All in all, she made it through the show, but and the end of it she declared that she "did not like this Annie." It was a good show though as I had a lot of my students in it. I was impressed at least! So, at least we know which Annie Maddie prefers!!