Welcome February

We went to a birthday party on Sunday and Caleb was so cute -- when the hostess thanked him for coming he said, "It was my pleasure." The birthday girl's mother was completely charmed. I've said that to him a couple of times when he's thanked me for something -- he's quite the little sponge (but I have to be careful because he picks up the bad as well as the good).

Sunday afternoon I took Caleb to see "A Year with Frog and Toad" at a localtheater company (Alana stayed home with Larry). I thought the tickets were too expensive, but I'd heard great things about the show, and what's the point of living in a city if you don't take advantage of this stuff once in a while??? The show was really nice. The sets and staging were wonderful and so were the costumes, and the actors had amazing singing voices. I think Caleb really enjoyed it, though I thought a couple of the songs were boring (you could hear the audience getting restless). But that's a small complaint. The actors were in the lobby at the end of the show to talk to the kids and Caleb very solemnly told the woman who played "Mouse" that his favorite part was when they grew flowers in the garden (it was very cleverly done with lights).

The three of us (Caleb, Alana and I) went to the Academy of Natural Sciences on Saturday afternoon and spent almost two hours in the interactive section upstairs (they call it "Outside In"). Caleb had a great time and Alana crawled all over and tried to climb on things and got very mad when I wouldn't let her splash in the goldfish pond. They got to pet a bunch of animals, including a bunny, a guinea pig, a snake and two turtles. It was a great way to spend a cold afternoon. (We joined earlier this year when Matthew was visiting and we took all three kids and found out that for about $20 more than it would have cost that day we could join for the whole year.)

EXTRA BONUS GOOD NEWS: Alana was scheduled to get her cast removed on February 22, but yesterday we moved it up a week, so her cast comes off February 15. Hurrah!