I came to Muncie Friday evening to be with my daughter and family for Meg's birthday weekend. Big plans for today!
Meg and Robin and I left before the "men" were up. We stopped at a place called Mac's just down the street for breakfast before leaving for the Indy area to Beef and Boards to watch a children's musical presentation of Cinderella. Robin ordered pancakes, and the very first thing that happened was that she managed to rip the foil top off the syrup cup and spilled sticky syrup all over her pants. I managed to get the booth cleaned up some, and we ate our breakfast...but we had to return to the house to get her a clean pair of pants. We still made it to our performance on time. Robin was really good and the performance was, mercifully, only an hour. It was special!
After that, the three of us stopped at a McDonald's up on 116th Street in Fishers (on the way home) that has a Play Place, and let Robin run for a bit. We also drove by Nathan's new golf course. (Not as elite as the last one, but not bad, either!)
When we got home, we asked about what went on here while we were gone. Meg asked what time Nate and Ryan got up. Nate said, "I got up at 11:30. I'm not sure what time Ryan got up." Well! Just in the last couple of days, Ryan has figured out how to get out of his crib. When we left this morning, Nathan claims that someone shut the bedroom door so he couldn't hear Ry. Ryan got himself up and was playing who knows how long in the house without supervision!!! (It could have been bad. We had left some risky cabinets unlocked, etc., expecting Daddy to be in control. Right!)
Robin and I decorated Megan's birthday cake while Ryan took a nap in the afternoon...then this evening was a parents' event at their church. It was a pot-luck supper with young families with children, just to get together and share. Babysitting is provided. Someone remembered that it was Meg's birthday, so there were TWO little professionally decorated cakes and a balloon for her. (When I saw the cakes, I hid the one we had brought! (Although my cake was superior in taste to the others, the decorations were...shall we say...pretty bad!) It was a pleasant evening, in any case.
Nathan and Ryan left for home after the dinner. Meg and Robin and I stopped at Wal-Mart to return some clothing I had bought for Meg. Robin and I let Mommy find what she wanted while we went elsewhere in the store. I ended up buying a Strawberry Shortcake video and some (minor) clothing for Robin. (She has outgrown all of her 4T stuff...and doesn't have much in the 5T range.) We were leaving the store and I thought, "Rats! I didn't buy anything for Ryan!" The Ry-Guy is only two, but he is beginning to keep score. Note to self: Do for one; do for the other! Fortunately, he enjoyed the Strawberry Shortcake video every bit as much as Robbie. He didn't notice...this time!
I think Meg had a nice birthday. I tried to make it a little special. Her major request was for a day without children in order to tackle a toy "roundup"--getting rid of things that are now too young for the children, finding all the parts of each toy, and rotating toys so that the children don't have too much to deal with at any given time. Pretty ambitious! I must admit that I don't think the results--if they can occur in one day--will last very long...but that is what Meg has been itching to do for months. SOOOoooo...Nathan and I are removing the children from the house tomorrow so she can do her thing. You go, Girl! And good luck!
We went through every kind of weather imaginable today--rain, sleet, snow, sunshine. The weather map was pocked with the stuff, everywhere. I will return home, exhausted, tomorrow afternoon. One more week until spring break. I am ready!!
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