The Force Is With Her

I snuck away from the office for a couple hours last week to catch my daughter, Emma's year-end school performance. The kids were encouraged to come up with their own "act" for the show, so Emma combined her love of Star Wars (a fact that pleases me no end) and playgrounds. She dressed up like Princess Leia, and then pulled off a balancing act on the school jungle gym that had my wife and I covering our eyes in fear. But she pulled it off flawlessly, and ended with a Mary Lou Retton-caliber dismount. Here's a pic of her, post-performance.

What's Emma's favorite line from Star Wars, you ask? Naturally, it's: "Will someone please get this big walking carpet out of my way!" by Princess Leia.