We Should Have Known . . .

. . . that our daughter would want to be an actress when she grew up.

From concerts and plays involving Beanie Babies and other stuffed animals when she was old enough to talk and sing . . .

to small parts in Camden Area Players little theatre productions like The Pied Piper . . .

And roles, since she was five, in our annual family murder mysteries such as the part of Diana Rush in Murder at the Disco . . .

To a leading role as Alice Sycamore in the Camden County High School Theatre Department's production of You Can't Take it With You.

She saw her first musical (Cats) when she was six and The Lion King on Broadway at nine. For her 16th birthday, she is going to see Rent. She breezed through being filmed with us on our Book Tours and later for the Discovery Channel like a pro. Frank and I like to imagine that they'll soon be putting a star on her dressing room door!