Late morning: Baby went down for a nap. Garrett and I worked on cleaning up his room.
Grandma came over. When Tristan woke up from his nap she took both kids for about 3 hours. They went to a little game fair for the developmentally disabled (where she works.) Garrett had fun and won several beach balls and got cotton candy. I took the time to get do some paperwork done and continue to work on my latest project- managing clothes. I finally have the kid's clothes up to date.Now just a bit more work on the adult clothes. (I think the house is slowly getting more together now, finally.)
Once the kids came home we drove to the Bel Air library. I hit the book sale and got a ton of books for only $10. My mission was to find books I can use for home-school and I did pretty well. I'm most excited by the art books I got! (Their fate will be with an x-acto knife.) Next, we headed to the park behind the library for a surprise birthday party for one pretty little 7 yr old. My friend, who lives between 1/2 the years in India and 1/2 the time in Maryland surprised me yesterday with a phone call announcing she was in the area- surprise!! Yeah! She was able to arrange a prompt-to playdate\birthday party with our group. It was fun! We mothers sat in the grass, catching up and having fun, while the kids played happily. It was a good time (and super nice the kids did so well playing together.) I love this group of friends- they have been my "mommy" friends since Garrett was about 6 months old.
After a few hours, most of us made our way to a mime concert at Mt. Zion church. I've been trying to see this a mime show for 5+ years (one of the "mommy" friends is the founder or main leader of this mime troupe.) It was really neat. The troupe is called Silent Witness Mime Ministry. They have kids as young as 11 up to adults. Their concerts focus on biblical\gospel principles. One of Garrett's favorite skits was called The Machine. It was about two kids who got a present- a machine they had to assemble. They set about to build the machine but the 1 child did not want to use the instruction manual- so she threw the instruction manual away and tried to do it all by herself! They went about making this machine (the other mime's were the machine parts). They eventually got it together and it worked briefly but then broke and fell apart. So they finally picked up the instruction manual and followed the directions. This was then related to how the Bible is our instruction manual. How often do we disregard it, thinking we can do it all on our own? Only to finally pick it up when we realize we can't do it all on our own. One of my favorite skits was called the Mirror. It was about how our true value- that we are so much more then what we see in the mirror. It was neat and nice to finally see a performance. Local friends, I highly suggest going to one of their concerts if you ever have the chance!
After the concert we drove home and "oh look, its the first movie night on the lawn!" The little church down the road from my house was just starting the movie and Garrett begged to go. This is one of Garrett's and mine favorite summer activities. We have been going to this little church to enjoy their movies on the lawn for years. Its so close to our house we always walk. So we grabbed the stroller and blanket and walked to the movie. (It was already 9:10 by this time.) We got our free snowballs and pop corn, watched about 25 min of the movie and then left because the baby was tired and wasn't falling asleep nursing.
So that was my day. Tomorrow I'm off to NJ for my niece's 1 yr old birthday party.
That was quite a busy day! Sounds like fun!
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