Lights, Camera, Action

We started our morning early today, and me with a late night last night. Madelyn and Kaitlyn are part of a movie called Blue Valentine. I'm typing this from the holding room after they just finished filming a scene where they were leaving the building with their "parents"..

I don't know much about the movie, other than it's supposed to be a love story and has Ryan Gosling in it. He's cuter in person. Taller than I thought he'd be.

The girls are dressed in red, white and blue and will later be part of a musical number. It's a compilation of Yankee Doodle and My Country Tis Of Thee. All the kids are so cute and it's really a lot of fun to be here with them getting the chance to be in this movie. Sure, they're just extras, but it will be cool to see the movie on the big screen.

We are on the move again...

Now the girls are back in the auditorium that they set up so cute, all patriotic with silver hanging stars and a flag background... they're going to be filming the musical number now, and all the parents have been shuffled back to the holding area. While watching them rehearse earlier, Miss Madelyn was quite the showman, just like she does at home. Kate did a great job too, she's in the back row, standing... and Madelyn is in the middle row, smack in the middle, kneeling- she gets on her knees and sits up so straight, and squares right off without being told, she really looks like she knows what she's doing, and like she's been doing it for years.

I guess this is partly why she talks to my bedroom mirror whenever she comes up to talk to me, she's staging herself even with simple conversations with me. Still really cute.

The food here is great, they're feeding us all well. There has been an ample supply of chips and such for all the kids to knosh on.

So far, I've had two celebrity spottings, Michele (can't remember her last name right now even though I know it- she was married to Heath Ledger) and Ryan Gosling. We've had very little interaction with either, but Ryan seems to be more personable in general. Everyone just rushes around, then waits, rushes around then waits.

Either way, it's been a really fun day, and the kids have had a blast. Kaitlyn has made a new friend, and Madelyn plays her friend's sister in one scene. I think it's because they're both wearing white dresses.

More to come later, I'm off to play on facebook and then hopefully find a plug so I can maintain my internet fix.