Primary Program is Over...Let's go to New York!
Today we had the big primary program. I was on piano. I found out it was going to be me last week. It was tolerable, but not anywhere near perfect. I suppose songs like "Holding Hands Around the World" can only get SO good, even if they are played to perfection. I had fun watching Lisa crack up watching the Sunbeams. One little Sunbeam said that after we are baptized, we get the 'holy goat'. Got love the Sunbeams. I asked if it was our boys that were making her laugh. She said they weren't super animated - just focused on getting through the songs I guess. There was a ward meal afterwards. Thomas sat down next to me with his plate full of nutritious foods: brownies, cookies, jello, and so forth. He didn't mind my taking on of the 4 large brownies he had stacked. Now you are probably wondering "Why didn't he go get his son some real food?" Well, he DID have some meat on his plate, and it WAS his second round. He had already eaten...something. I'm not sure what...But in case you didn't know, Thomas has the ability to consume large quantities of food for such a little guy. Parker is the ultra-fussy eater, and Scott is somewhere in between. I don't have to play Sports Announcer with Tommy, but he'll always play along if I have to do if for Scott and Parker. It's like this: "And here we are at the annual eat-athon, and the eaters are taking their places at the table. Oh, Bob, this isn't good, it looks like Scott is distracted by a lego on the counter! Meanwhile Parker takes a large bite! He's taking another! He's going to need a gulp of milk pretty soon here Bob, or he's going to choke! Speaking of milk, this moment was sponsored by Cream of Weber milk!" and so forth. You wouldn't believe how quickly they can finish their food when this technique works! It also provides me and Lisa some entertainment while we get through it, since the announcements are sometimes the funniest when the kids start to leave the table: "Oh, this doesn't look good at ALL Bob! It looks like Scott must have hit his head; he is walking off the field in the MIDDLE OF THE GAME!! The crowd is going nuts? I've never heard boos like this!"Oh, here's a funny quote - I was driving the kids back from their Suzuki Lessons yesterday, and took a wrong turn. Scott and Thomas don't generally know, or care where we are, but when I took another turn into a neighborhood (because I was lost), my 4-year-old yelled out "Oh great, we're lost!" I had to laugh, and marvel. Was it that obvious? He already knows me too well.We're reading Candy Shop War - it's a great cross-over kids/adults book. Very well written. We didn't realize that the author, Brandon Mull, was a member of our church until we were halfway through the first Fablehaven, and the way things were presented sounded very similar to the way that we explain the ideas of men being mixed with truth, then we read the cover in the back that says the author lives on a mountain next to a prison. It's like, 'Oh, Draper. Yes, he's a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints".Lisa and I fly to New York this coming weekend with my business partner, Brent Bankhead, and his wife. Darren Rodabough would come, but his wife, Aaron, just gave birth to their fourth child. We'll be going to Carnegie Hall, Mary Poppins, and something else - we just haven't decided what yet. We'll be staying at the Hyatt that is on 42nd street - right in the heart of everything. I'm having a hard time believing it, since I've always thought it would be interesting to go, but never had a chance. Hope the kids are OK. A younger couple will be staying at our home with the kids. Students. Wow, we are getting older.I didn't finish my last post, as both computer's power, and my power were running low. I will try to get pics up from Halloween. Oh, Lisa and I raked up leaves yesterday. It is the first time we had a tree big enough in our yard to bother. Lisa had the awesome idea of using a tarp to move the leaves from the backyard to the curb, where the city is sucking up leaves tomorrow. For some reason, I'm imagining that vacuum with eyes from Teletubbies, which means I must be getting a little tired. Back on track, it dropped from the mid 70's down to the flipping 50's this week. Could we take the transition from nice weather to bad weather a little slower? Maybe we're being blanched. Lisa wondered why I needed that word. She's the cook, I'm the sou-chef...in traing. Ok, ok, I'm the clean up guy that comes in after the Head Chef has gone home for the night. Right now: Lisa is reading the Friend magazine, probably for FHE ideas with Padme on her lap, Thomas setting the Risk board up in hopes that someone will 'play', Scott is cutting a box with kid scissors, and Parker is trying to practice his Cello. Oh, now a fight is breaking out, gotta go.