And not one picture to show for it.
Friday night, we went to St. Angela Merici's "Catfish Festival" that was just a big, fun fair with delicious fried fish. We met some friends there, Mike & Kelsey, with their little 5-mos-old, though neither of us actually attends that church. After eating, Paul wanted to do "Das! Das!" (That! That!) pointing to all the rides; hm... but, wait! There was a special, little fenced off section that was just for 6yrs and under! Oh, my goodness, the joy! There were two jump-jump things to get in, one was just a big ball pit + the jumping about = lots-o-fun, and the other was nothing I'd ever seen before. It was a full-on playground, complete with slide but all in the jump-jump material! Bouncing and sliding and jumping and rolling on balls and running and running into the walls. Oh, gosh. Just picture Paul's widest smile combined with biggest belly laugh + eyes closed, flailing about on the balls and running to do it again. Sheer bliss.
Of course, it could only end in tears. Because how do you leave something so awesome? Sigh.
Saturday morning began with blueberry pancakes, yum, and continued into an improv musical instrument show-n-tell. It started with Paul dancing around the table with a chopstick, which looked a little like a conductor's baton. So I started singing a piece - Firebird came to mind, so that's just what I sang. Anyway, we asked P if he knew what a conductor was, etc, we showed him a video of an orchestra playing it - ooo, something shiny! Did you see those French horns? Do you want to see a real French horn? And I'm sure you can imagine the scene that followed. It ended in Dylan sort of practicing the glissando at the beginning of Rhapsody in Blue. Didn't know we had a clarinet? Ah, well, learn something new everyday. I knew we had it, but what I didn't know is that Dylan could do anything with it. Anyway, after that, we packed up the car and headed to an Open House event for the Woodlands Conservancy about 15 miles from here where there were hot dogs, burgers, cake, punch, and, of course, the nature walking. Beautiful area - and so close! I think we'll take advantage of it again. Then it was nap time. (How much did you get up to before 12:30pm?) And then it was Baylor Football time! We were playing Heidi & Josh's alma mater, and so we made an order-the-winners-a-pizza bet. But they're gamers - as in they actually go to Vegas - and started making all these stipulations, so we shook hands (figuratively) on the 21-point spread. The game ended with Baylor exactly 21 points ahead, so do we buy them pizza? Do they buy us pizza? Is it a draw? Ooooh, what's that you say, Heidi, the day after the game? The spread is 21.5 points? Interesting. In any case, it was really fun to watch the game with friends a thousand miles away.
And now it's a relaxing, drizzly Sunday. Happy Fall!
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