<p>LOL, Cheers! The OB nurse failed to mention to you that in a few years your innocent angel would grab your tah-tahs in public and shout, "I LUV breast-ez!"</p>
<p>Almost as much fun as the time we walked into a restaurant, and our darling 4-year old Sluggarina pointed to a portly, older gentleman and squealed, "Look, Mommy! It's Captain Kanga-ROO!" </p>
<p>I was a fan of Bunny Rabbit, myself, but the dude did look like him! :)</p>
<p>Junior son has developed a new use for duct tape. He is presently using it to tape ice packs to his head after getting his wisdom teeth pulled this morning. He needs his hands free to play his computer game.</p>
<p>When my oldest was about 3 we were in line at the bank and she kept looking at the African American woman in line in front of us. She then goes up and starts feeling her legs. I was so embarrassed turns out the woman had panty hose on and my D just wanted to touch them.</p>
<p>Junior son has developed a new use for duct tape. He is presently using it to tape ice packs to his head after getting his wisdom teeth pulled this morning. He needs his hands free to play his computer game.</p>
<p>When my oldest was about 3 we were in line at the bank and she kept looking at the African American woman in line in front of us. She then goes up and starts feeling her legs. I was so embarrassed turns out the woman had panty hose on and my D just wanted to touch them.</p>
<p>Auditions Round One: cheersjunior called back twice for additional readings for the part of Mozart. No females counterpart auditioning yet. Two callbacks without the chemistry thing. Check!</p>
<p>Same day: cheersjunior is elected to provisional First XI soccer team (Varsity) as the goalkeeper, after nationally ranked goalkeeper lost his scholarship and left the school.</p>
<p>Geez...Mr Smooth might have some credible ECs afterall, through no fault of his own, LOL.</p>
<p>gee cheers, he sounds like a walking "Axe" commercial! ;)</p>
<p>A little off topic, but . . . My S, when he was about 4, was invited to a neighborhood birthday party. S asked how old the little boy, whose name was Juan Franco, was going to be. I said "Juan Franco's going to be 6". So my S, displaying the complete and perfect logic that all kids that age seem to have, thought for a moment, then asked "then why isn't he called Six Franco?"</p>
<p>What is an "axe" commercial? <em>says the ex-pat</em></p>
<p>Mind you, five other actors were also called back for two additional Mozart readings. The other ten were asked to read for other parts. Still another 15 or 16 to audition tonight. It's a deep bench because it's an unbelieveable program.</p>
<p>We have an inkling of who the wife might be, given the talent at the girls' school. Yup, she's a big cheersjunior fan.</p>
<p>Have any of you SA lushes seen the movie 'Mozart'? It's a treat--though it disproves most of Amadeus.</p>
<p>"Axe" is a "body spray" being marketed to teen boys... Very macho marketing campaign; very Marlboro Man image... The target is insecure ~13 year olds who getting into girls and are horrified that they might have BO.</p>
<p>hayden, LOL...</p>
<p>Reminds me of littlest son getting all confused when we are traveling to Miami... He kept mentioning it to me as "Yourami."</p>
<p>SBmom - love it. Drinks on me. Or should I offer Hurricanes?</p>
<p>Guess who got called into the theatre at lunch for a run-off audition for Amadeus? And guess who is Mozart in the upcoming $70K production? Shocking though it may be, cheersjunior has bagged the role! Hah! EC manna from heaven! Out of NOWHERE!</p>
<p>He did play out of his socks when he played Hamlet as a 12 year old, but since then, he's shown minimal interest. Likewise, much as I flogged the story of this wonderkid Hamlet, the Eton-esque high school gave me a rather stiff brush off--or so it seemed. I thought it was his twang, now disappeared LOL.</p>
<p>Still, I'm tellin' you, the chemistry thing is what nailed it for him. </p>
<p>Who needs liquor? cheers is as high as a kite.</p>
<p>$70k production. Wow, that's quite a budget! How fun that is going to be for your son! Is the play like the movie? I love the movie!</p>
<p>Yes, the play is similar. I've seen it in London with Mr Smooth--who didn't want to go as I recall!</p>
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<p>Congratulations to your son, Cheers!!! What a great accomplishment!</p>
<p>Cheers, </p>
<p>Great news!</p>
<p>We are licking wounds and moving on in our household. D was rejected for Art at Copper Union. She took it hard. She spent the bulk of six weeks working on the home test, so had plenty of time and energy vested in the outcome. She also received a less than satisfactory merit offer from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</p>
<p>Being the roller coaster ride that this process is, she also got a call from the faculty head of the art program at CMU praising her work and strongly encouraging her to attend! We should here our last merit offer from the remaining school by middle of next week.</p>
<p>Also on the home front, I will begin a new job Monday after a self imposed ten month sabbatical. Mixed feelings there, although the W is dancing in the streets at my imminent departure from the house.</p>
<p>Once again, a toast of "Cheers" all round for Cheers and his out of the closet thesbian S!</p>
<p>m&sdad, we remain steadfast (as in, duct-taped to our barstools), stalwart and undaunted by RL (Real Life) employment here in SA. You just have to keep the snorting down so you don't draw unnecessary attention to yourself. :) Happy New Job! </p>
<p>Yay for CheersJr! There are a few Hallmark moments when SluggSr and I felt like real high school parents. You know, those times when you're really proud of your kid, and all of the hard work of raising a teenager seems to have paid off. High school kinda sucks because those moments don't come along very often, for them or for us. </p>
<p>Turns out, high school is mostly...I was going to say hard work, but for parents, it's mostly a lot of worrying, and there are a lot of setbacks. It is the nature of the high school experience. If there were a ride at Disneyland called The High School Experience, NO ONE would go on it! Well, maybe a few overly enthusiastic, naive first-time Junior High parents who can't wait to see their blossoming 13-year olds turn into Liesl Von Trapp and her boyfriend, Rolfe, as they swirl and dance around the campus singing, I am sixteen, going on seventeen, innocent as a rose... Uh, huh... Even in the movie, the Captain catches Rolfe throwing pebbles at Liesl's window. The little bast*%! turns around and salutes Liesl's father with a Heil Hitler gesture. Yeah, that's what it's like! </p>
<p>I have no doubt that Maria and the Captain actually spent their evenings guzzling schnapps and discussing ways to get rid of Liesl's boyfriend, the future Nazi. When they realized they were beat, they decided their only option was to head for the hills to Switzerland. ;) And, can you imagine what Rolfe's parents were going through? Their 17-year old joined the Nazi Youth! They were last seen sneaking out of Salzburg singing, Climb Every Mountain, along with a goatherd named Helga. :p </p>
<p>High school productions are usually pretty blissful for parents. The actors stay out of trouble while they're memorizing lines and going to rehearsals after school and on the weekends. The costuming, the makeup, the set building, and the heavy flirting that goes on makes it worthwhile for students. Cast parties usually rock. Senior boys who entangle cute girl stagehands in velvet curtains may end up marrying them. And, I don't mean in a shotgun wedding kind of way. I mean, they both have the sense to wait and graduate from college, first. Then, they get jobs, buy a house, have a couple of kids, and one of them spends her mornings posting on College Confidential. :D</p>
<p>Thanks guys. m&s, sorry to hear about Cooper. Fingers crossed for CMU merit $$. btw, you must have missed the mammary story above. I call S2 cheersjunior because, as they say in Louisiana, "he's like you spat him out yo' mouth". </p>
<p>My high school rollercoaster ride could have been called "Waste of Time". I stood in line for the bloody ride and got zippo, haha. Longest four years of my life. I get sleepy thinking about it.</p>
<p>cheersjunior, however, has had the quintessential high school ride with 100 great friends, an exploration of talents, an expansion of horizons and a darling girlfriend. By affability and wit, he is a BMOC--the slacker version (by CC standards). Funnily, at his first high school conference, his teachers asked us if a 'Jacket, Tie and "Sir!" ' school was suitable for this creative, anti-authoritarian boy. They thought it might be the wrong 'fit'. They worried that he might be stifled and unhappy--and they probably wanted to avoid the long trail and error period that was ahead. Hah!</p>
<p>Shows to go you about the hallowed 'fit'. Sometimes it's just the luck of dropping into a class of 100 great guys.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>I was keeping abreast of that whole other thread!</p>
<p>And regarding the childrearing years: thanks for the mammaries!</p>
<p>Cheers - Take videos. Post link. Sinner's Alley will then have pseudo Live Entertainment! How long do we have to wait? Rehearsal videos would tide us over. :)</p>