A Present from Elastigirl

Look what we got in the mail today!  Disney does it right, and although this is just the briefest of our trips to the parks, they still sent us our wristbands in this nice box, and with our names beneath each one.  Daddy chose the green one to go with his costume, and Madison chose red like her Mommy.  They look nice, and of course these are used as keys to the parks and to the doors, and to a few other things like the Fastpass.  The other thing they unlock is something on Disney Infinity, which is a pretty neat hidden feature.  By waving one of these wristbands over the Disney Infinity pad, you can unlock some sort of new background a props for the worlds you design.

This was a nice thing to open up at the end of the day.  We spent some time at work today, typing up messages and getting things together for service tomorrow and beyond.  Time is zipping by, and that deadline to have all the messages for the next series is looming.

Madison did piano practice today, and reading practice as well.  And speech too - this is one area she's been paying a bit more attention to.  We're trying to be more diligent in this, getting her to do more exercises each day.  We've been looking online for resources, for apps to help in getting this one last stronghold defeated.  Madison will be speaking fluently and clearly very soon, but it will take a bit of effort for all of us.

Tonight we read from Neverland again - the Never Girls have officially met the Lost Boys, which I think would be an amazing rock band name.  We watered the garden a bit, and got ourselves a pretty big harvest of cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes.  We also met a ginormous spider, who has now taken up residence in front of the house, hanging between the garage and front porch.  She has built this ginormous web, and let's just say that Daddy met her the hard way.  Madison thought it was hysterical.  There is something utterly horrific about walking along, and coming face to face with a spider that big, dangling in front of you, legs flailing.  Both you and the spider are in full panic mode, as your arms do some sort of kung fu directed at all the rope-like webbing now stuck to your body.  The spider is merely trying to climb away from this large human who appears to be doing some sort of weird, jerky interpretive dance, with accompanying sounds:  "Oh!  Gross!  Get it off!  Yuck!  Oh!"

It is a seasonal thing.  Daddy will let the spider stay there, but everyone has been warned, including you.  Watch where you walk in that little zone, because there is a spider hanging there that's roughly the size of your face!  We'll have to come up with a name for her.  Knowing Madison, it will either be Rosie, Lilly, or her new go-to name, "Jamie Lynne."  I think that's the name of a friend at school, and such a nice name that she's named other friends in the house that same name, like our alien LEGO creature.   That's the perfect name for an alien, isn't it?  Jamie Lynne.

ALIEN:  "I HAVE COME FROM THE DISTANT PLANET OF NEPTAR FIVE, AND I AM HERE TO EXAMINE LIFE ON YOUR TINY EARTH."

ARMY GENERAL:  "What should we call you?"

ALIEN:  "THERE ARE THOSE THAT CALL ME... JAMIE LYNNE."