pitter-patter

Ella started to count to ten, but before she got to five, she heard the pitter-patter of tiny feet and spotted the big black noses of several rotties peeking their heads out from behind columns.

Overhead, satin-and-glue pointed toes pitter-patter across stage in a performance of the holiday favorite.

“We would wake to the pitter-patter of little feet in the middle of the night,” Groonwald recalls, saying that the experience taught her two lessons.

The show’s soundtrack and the décor are usually distinctly ’80s, but the pitter-patter of David and Maddie’s bickering and the creativity of the mysteries are timeless.

A noise jolts you awake, and you hear the pitter-patter of tiny, scurrying feet.