Loooooooooooong Day

Yes, it was one of those days. Daddy went in early, and we had another fun service in Wonderland, where the Caterpillar was blowing bubbles and teaching Alice how to be a queen. Here he is, pictured to the right. His big question is "Who are You?" Of course, we tried to answer that today for everyone. In the meantime, our little Queen Madison was getting ready for a birthday party at the church for one of her friends, Jordan. He's the son of the guitar player in the band (Chris), and his mother had a nice party all set up for everyone in the recreation room. Madison loved it - she ran around and got herself exhausted playing with all the other children. What fun! While that party was going on, Daddy was in the auditions for the upcoming Easter drama at the church, secretly hoping to not have a big role. Funny going in to an audition, praying for something minor. It's just that the last three dramas (two Christmas, one Easter), Daddy has had a significant role that required practices galore. Lots of time away, and lots of little stresses. Hopefully, that won't be the case this time around and he'll get to spend more time at home. We'll see! I'm hoping to play a Villager #3, who has a big scene walking behind a well and off the stage for about thirty seconds while something else really important is going on up front.

Anyway, when we got home together, we spent some time in bed for movie night. Madison got the popcorn out and we plugged in our latest thing: Disney Treasures DVDs.

These gems are great. Daddy has nearly every one, and many of them have short cartoons that you can watch back to back. What's interesting is that many date back to the 1930s, and it's fun for Mommy and Daddy to watch too. Madison clearly enjoys them - she laughs out loud at some scenes, really getting into the slapstick. She also immediately recognizes the bad guys, and waves her naughty-naughty finger. The last few days we've been watching the Silly Symphonies, which as I said earlier are a lot of fun to watch. We've got plenty of these DVDs, and they're perfect because they aren't an hour and a half long movie. For example, I mentioned Madison got exhausted playing around at the party - tonight she fell asleep watching the third or fourth cartoon. In fact, Mommy fell asleep too. And the cat. Out of the four of us, Daddy was the only one left awake - I guess it was a long day!