Cruella de Spud

We returned to the Potato Head empire today, amassing a Potato Head Empire with the usual suspects: Tony Starch, Darth Tater, Spuda Fett, the Spud Trooper, Chipbacca, and Artoo Potato.  Add to this the Taters of the Lost Ark hero, and a whole assortment of Disney accessories we've collected over the years at Disney World - we actually have every single one available at the parks right now.  It fills up this huge tub that Daddy pulled out of the closet this morning.  Madison and Daddy immediately set to work creating different Potato Heads.  Madison made a few girls of her own, including a pirate Angelica.  Daddy made one we'll call Cruella de Spud.  

We made a Mad Hatter and a March Hare, and one from the Incredibles.  There's a Statue of Liberty Potato Head as well, perfectly acceptable as a decoration for the upcoming Independence Day Holiday.  Speaking of which, we're pretty excited here that Independence Day falls on the Fourth of July this year. 

Yes, that was a joke.  And a bad one, admittedly.

Moving on:  today was work, work, work.  Mommy came in the office and did some work as well.  As it was the big day for the Forward Conference, there was some hustle involved with getting last-minute props of an obscure nature, and bringing them down to the Gwinnett Arena.  In today's case, it was a life-sized stuffed rooster with authentic feathers, and a few coats of many colors.  And a white robe too.  Each year, there's a scramble for different items at the last minute, but this year was a little easier than usual.  Sometimes it is this mad, desperate scavenger hunt.  But we've always found the items necessary for the illustrated sermon, and tonight was no different.  By all accounts, it was a tremendous success.

Not that we were there.  Of course, the event means a late night in Atlanta, and we were all ready to hit the sack early, the same time Madison did.  So we got home early evening and though tired, we popped in another movie from the Disney archive, also picked up from the library:  "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."  Watch a quick movie and go to bed, right?

Wrong.  First of all, this movie is LONG.  It's over two hours long!  It takes a while to get to the good stuff, that is, the parts with the Island of Naboomboo, and the army of soldiers driving away the Nazis.  

Random thought:  Madison's first exposure to Nazis are from Lego Indiana Jones, and those wacky guys in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."

ANYWAY, we all enjoyed the movie, but did not go to bed anywhere near as early as we hoped. As mentioned earlier, it's a LONG one!  Still, it was great seeing David Tomlinson bob along on the bottom of the beautiful briny sea, and when all was said and done (and the Nazis were all gone), it was time for each of us to say goodnight.  There are no bedknobs on Madison's bed, so fortunately, she wasn't going anywhere...