Saturday we woke up, headed to the library, ate lunch at Greenhouse Grill, headed home for rest time. After rest time, Ben headed to the basketball game and we headed to Bennett and Oliver's 2nd Birthday Party!!!! It was magical!!! Boingo Bounce is always a hit. They had a DJ and much, much more in the party room! Their mommies planned a special day for their sweet boys!
Win liked the music and stayed close to the speakers before the big surprise....
The DJ introducing a special guest....
Waiting for the surprise guest.....
Graham not so sure he is going to like this guest....
Surprise, it's Elmo!!!!
I had the camera on Madeline so I could get her immediate reaction, she was not a fan!!!
She loves to read about Elmo, but does not care to see him in person!!!
She was quickly attached to my leg....
I think Knox was the biggest fan....
We enjoyed dancing to the music from afar.
She told me she does not like Mascots. Guess she thinks Elmo is a mascot!!
Poor girl! When we are at home she acts like a "mean mascot". She says hey mom " I'm a mean mascot".
She waved bye and said Bye Elmo from afar as well.
We met Grandmommy and Grandad at our house for her first sleepover at their house all by herself !
(When Graham was born, Grandmommy and Big Momma spent the night with her for 2 nights at our house when I was in the hospital. But other than that, I have been with her every night.)
As soon as they got to our house, she said, "it is getting dark, we better go."
She had a great time. Grandad said he went into the bedroom to check on them, Grandmommy was asleep and Madeline was looking around. She puts Ben and me to sleep sometimes in her bed.
P.S. Graham loved being the only child for the night!
Madeline was waving, blowing kisses and said " See you in the morning"
Such a big girl!
Ben and I thought she would be so excited to see us when we picked her up in Sunday school.
Boy were we wrong, she ran right past us and said " I'm going to big church with Grandad"
Miss Independent!
Email sent to my mom, which explains the jar. I am too tired to write something ( very hard hot yoga class after church and then we worked in the yard for the rest of the afternoon). I will copy and past!
For lent, we are raising money
for Imagine No Malaria. Madeline chose Sanford Khamala from Kenya
(suffering from Maleria) to help. It only takes $10.00 to prevent,
educate, communicate, diagnose and treat a person with Maleria. A person
in Africa dies from Maleria every 60 seconds. A picture of our jar is
attached. We plan to raise $50.00 over the next 6 weeks and take our
jar back to Chruch on Easter Sunday. The United Methodist Church will
match any funds we donate. The combination of our jar and the church
donation can save 10 lives!
We
could easily put $50 dollars in the jar, Ben's preference, but i want
Madeline to see us doing
it a different way. I plan on giving up fancy coffee drinks and will
donate that money to the jar on days I would go and buy one, I discussed
with Madeline there may be a few times we will not get to buy something
she wants to help someone else to become strong and healthy and she can
put the money in the jar (sonic trips). I told Ben instead of buying
beer or a bottle of wine, he can donate to the jar, his reply was, why
can't I do both. Kind of defeats the purpose of lent, but I will happily
put any money in the jar.
Mom and Rick- If you have any extra change around the house will you bring it up for Madeline to
put in the jar when you visit. Mom, I think the plan is for you to come up soon.
xoxo,
Leslie
