Puppet Show

The other day I had an idea (after the kids went to bed) that we should do some puppet shows behind the couch and I thought that Sarah and Nathan would really enjoy that. We forgot about it for a few days and then Mary remembered it so we told them we had a surprise for them after dinner. They were very excited about the surprise (Sarah was excited about the surprise, Nathan was excited because Sarah was excited... he had no clue what he was supposed to be excited about). After dinner we had them sit on the couch across the room and we went down behind the other couch and popped our hands up with some puppets. The kids were thrilled! There favorite thing was to "crash the party" by running over and jumping on the couch and attacking our puppets as well as trying to scare us behind the couch... giggling all the way, of course. We would let them do that for a bit and then ask them to return to the couch so the show could resume and they would... for about 5 seconds. We began switching roles and it was pretty cute to watch them try to be puppets. Sarah tried to get into the puppet roles. Nathan just wanted to either attack Sarah's puppet with his or have us attack his puppet. It was fun nonetheless and they have requested several puppet shows since then and they have also put on several of their own. Pretty cute!


Nathan liked to be on the side of the couch where both he and his puppet could be seen (and he could see what was going on)