Watching a children’s show (in rehearsal) with an actual child is fun.  But when it’s with Mikey, the old-soul engineer who is 3 going on 5-and-a-half, it’s really amusing.

“I’m sorry you can’t find your goddaughter,” he said, when I sat back down from my scene.  “But she’s sitting right there.  You should go get her.”

“It is TIME for you to go be the stepmother,” he said, pushing Steph back onstage.  “I like you as the stepmother.” (I think you’ve finally grown out of Mommy Duck.)

And perhaps the most worthwhile event of the rehearsal?  I learned the ASL sign for “passing gas”.  Don’t ask why.