Canton is spending the week in Bloomington at ITF. The Bird of the Sea was selected to represent the state of Virginia as a Chapter Select. He gets to attend workshops, watch shows, and experience a week in college dorm life. Canton also got to sing on Monday.

We always miss Canton when he is away at conferences. But, this time feels a little different. High school is half over and two year from now we will be taking him to the dorms for real. I think we are all taking this week a bit harder knowing time keeps marching.

He has been good about texting and FaceTime. We have asked for pictures but he has only this, not a big phone kid that one…

I took a snap of a FaceTime in his dorm, of which he is not a fan 🙂

We took the girls for PF Changs and the Mariners Museum to distract them.

Canton did make sure to hang out with them a lot before leaving 🙂

Watching a show—Drowsy Chaperone. Bird of the Sea performs later tonight (Thursday)

Some snapshots from the final showing of Bird of the Sea. Thanks to Rani for sending!

Canton and Ian—Proudly showing their Superior pins for scoring in the top category at ITF! This is a great accomplishment! So proud!