Wonderland's Cat

Tonight we met the Cheshire Cat once more, which has been a great puppet for us, as you can see above. He joined Alice at KidPak, and down the hall for the younger kids too - you should have heard their squeals: "Oh my goodness! A real live cat!"

Today Daddy spent largely at work, but coming home for lunch was a treat: Mommy had French Onion Soup made up, and afterwards Madison and Daddy played a game of Matching with Disney Princess cards. It was a pretty large deck, so it took a while to get all the matches, but it was fun nonetheless.

Daddy got a lot of goodies in the mail: a new driver's license (finally!), and some Mickey headphones (from Disney Movie Rewards - another freebie!), and finally the stuff we ordered for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration. It kind of all came at the same time - funny how that works. When it rains, it pours. Speaking of which, it stopped raining today, finally. Not that we've minded. The rain has been good for the land. The weather outside has been pretty cold though: this morning before driving Madison in to school, the cars outside were frosted over.

On the way to school, Daddy told a story of the trip Indiana Jones and Marion made to see the Groundhog. It involved Indy, Marion, and their attempts to get the groundhog to come out of his hole. Madison loved it, and Daddy had fun making up things as we went along - with her help, of course. Those are the best kinds of stories. You sort of get that feeling a similar thing was going on with Lewis Carroll when he made up "Alice in Wonderland," so long ago one golden afternoon. Of course, our rambling tale wasn't anything classic as that, but it still is a great touch when Madison adds her ideas to the story, pushing it along with silly fun that everyone can enjoy.