Weekend Notes

Friday night was Halloween... we went to the dollar movie to see WALL·E. Mikey really loved it! I thought the first act went kind of slow for small children and I could see how it might lose their interest. Mikey loved the part where WALL·E ran over his cockroach friend, and then the cockroach popped back up with a squeaky sound. That and the part where the babies were learning their ABC's with corporate brainwashing made the movie for him. Go figure! After we went to Baskin-Robbins and ate ice cream so we could be sure everybody would go to bed with a sugar rush and nobody would get any sleep. So that was awesome. (It's Halloween... if your blood isn't like 85% glucose, you're not doing it right!)

Saturday Mikey's team did not win their soccer game; they lost 0-2. The game was in the morning; that afternoon Mikey and I went out to the place we call "The Big Circle." Take a look at this map to see why we call it that:


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Anyway, he and I went out to The Big Circle, which is only a couple of blocks from our house, to shoot a little air-driven rocket that Meme and Papaw gave him on his birthday (yes, we're REALLY behind on trying out birthday presents!) and (no pun intended) we had a BLAST! The rocket shoots with nothing but air power, provided by a motion that is pretty similar to clapping your hands once, and it shoots way up there into the air. The rocket is made of foam rubber, like Nerf stuff, so it's perfectly safe to try to catch it when it comes down or on the first bounce. It was a beautiful afternoon, and we had a lot of fun.

Sunday was "Super Sunday" at Grace, the one Sunday a month when we have a guest speaker. This month it was Dennis Burke, a guy that hasn't spoken to the congregation at Grace before although I think he's spoken at a minister's conference. Cathy didn't go; Hannah had a little bit of snotty-nose going on and they couldn't keep her in the nursery (which is exactly how I would want it to be, because if it were someone else's baby that looked sick, I would want Hannah to not have to be around the other baby and get sick. Church shouldn't be where your baby gets an infectious disease! ) I told Cathy I would stay home so she could go, but she wanted to stay. Anyway, it was a great message, and I hope she'll listen to it online when it goes up within a few days! (She tried to stream it live, but there was an issue with the streams yesterday and it was unwatchable.)