African Children's Choir

Marilyn & I went to see the Choir, they put on a great show. 21 kids ranged from 8 - 13, they were very active, high stepping and moving all the time. Music was both Religious and African folk. Concert lasted about 1 1/2 hrs. I am only sorry that I didn't take my camera to get some photos.

Visitors

I got home from afternoon bingo and was getting ready to fix something to eat and I notice the family of deer in the flower bed. So I took some photos. There was buck, lady and two kids. This photo was the best, you can see the spike horns on "buck".

If you double click on the photo you can see the spike horns. Sorry that the photo isn't better.

Jen, Ella & Ben

Jen, Ella & Ben visited today. It was a surprise to me because I didn't know they were coming.

Ella wanted to play with the play dough, well we did finally get to it just before dinner Marilyn, Ella & Jen all pitched in an made something. As usual the day went fast.

Grandma had to read to Ella but she also had Ben, he did listen for a little bit.

We did ask Ella if she would like to come back again an stay the night, she felt that would be ok. Jen called just after they left and they were talking about Ella coming back to stay at a latter date and Ella said that she would like that and she would drive her self to grandma & grandpa's. OK.

Abby, Ella & Ben

We had all the grandkids up today. When Ella arrived and she got out of the car it was a bunch of running and screaming from both girls. Time for lunch and a nap before we go to the new park to play.

On the way we stopped at Cooks for a treat (ice cream). Yummy.

First we had to go see the cows, it was time for them to be fed so a worker was taking some feed for them. Wanted to see the calfs but they were in the back of the big barn.

What flavor do you want was a big question, both wanted Blue Moon. Small kids cup was more than enough for all of us.

The park is big with a lot of ramps connecting all the structure with another, however I think I like the purple orange park in Wheaton better.

When it was time to go Abby didn't want to hug Ella and that disappointed Ella which she started to cry, we tried to get Abby to reconsider but she wouldn't. The photo to the right shows Ella trying to get Abby to give her a hug.

Just as we were getting them into their car seats Abby said that she wanted to hug Ella so unsnap them so they could give the hug a kiss, it still was a chore for Abby but she did give in.

There is a small water (wading) park but it closed on Labor Day, I didn't see any rides, however I guess we will have to check it out next year.

Grand Rapids

Aug 31, 2009

Marilyn & I went to Grand Rapids to stay with Abby while Amy was working @ Zondervan. We checked in with Amy and then she changed & off to work. We had lunch and Abby wanted to go swimming so I changed and out to the pool we went. It was a sunny day but cool, however this facility is not good for small children. No wade area and the spa had a ledge around the spa that was 3 ft. Abby, did get wet and I tried to get her back in but once she was out she didn't want to go back in.

She did go in the room a slept for about 1 1/2 hr. Drove by Zondervan to show Abby where her mother was working. Time to eat (Abby hungry). Went to Perkins, however no one seemed to want our business because we were there for about 10 minutes a no one came to seat us so we left and went to Bob Evans.

Abby ordered mac & cheese with a side of fries ate just about the whole bowl, she had one slice of my pumpkin bread.

Amy came about 8 PM

Sept 1, 2009

Jen, Ella & Ben arrived to spend the day with us.

We went to the John Ball Zoo, which is a nice small, but your are close animals so the kids can actually see the animals.

Had lunch and then went to Build-A-Bear, the girls had a great time picking their bear and watching it being filled. Abby was a little taken back because of the big machines noise.

Ella did the bath, an a brush of her bear, Abby didn't want to do this. Next was the clothes for the bears, Ella chose a soccer player and Abby a Girly purple gown.