"The Big and Giant Olaf"

Madison is starting her own new comic book, one called "The Big and Giant Olaf."  She's drawing the pictures of the Big and Giant Olaf, and by the time she'll be done with the thing, I'm sure he'll have many interesting adventures.  As you can see above, Madison met the Big and Giant Olaf, along with Queen Elsa once more.  This is probably the last weekend we'll see Elsa - at church, that is.  We concluded our ongoing drama, and had a great message as well about rowing together, and setting sail for adventure with faith.  It had a Viking explorer sort of vibe to it, which was fun!

Okay, so who was inside that Big and Giant Olaf costume?  You guessed correctly if you said it was Daddy.  I was a hot and sweaty mess in there, shuffling around and nearly immobile, waving my hands around nearly blindly and constantly struggling to keep the head in place.  Forget moving it side to side, or even up and down.  At present, Daddy's neck is sore - I had that costume on for a few hours today!

Why did I have it on a few hours?  Because there was a huge line of kids wanting to have their photo taken with Elsa and Olaf.  It was a HUGE deal.  Daddy got lots of hugs today, almost as many as Elsa did.  The younger kids were of course incredibly precious.  They were blown away at Elsa's presence, and not really put off by the fact that Olaf was a big bigger than he seemed on television.

It was a great morning.  We had a couple hundred pictures to go through, which we did, putting them all online for the parents and children.  And the service went very well also, a conclusion to our awesome series.  The kids have absolutely loved it.

We got home a little later today, which was a place of fried chicken.  This is something new, believe it or not.  Mommy made fried chicken using ground up Rice Checks and other gluten-free ingredients.  The end result was something perfect - just perfect.  Now Mommy can enjoy fried chicken with us!

We had some speech homework to do, practicing the letter "r" a few times like a good pirate.  And we   are also signed up to make a monster truck this weekend coming up.  This led us on a search of current monster trucks, and a revelation about just how many there are, and the entire world of competition they are involved in.  Seriously, we sat there for an hour looking and laughing at all the monster trucks.  I think our favorite might be El Diablo.  It has this huge face on the back, with a tongue sticking way out.

It was cold outside, and the rumor is snow this week.  We'll wait and see on that one.  But until then, we're still in Chinese New Year mode:  we watched "Kung Fu Panda" tonight.  It was almost as if it was the first time for Madison, who was laughing at a lot of the slapstick along the way.  It has just been a while since we've seen it.  The movie's soundtrack is familiar to Madison too, particularly that one tune called "Panda Po."  It's the soundtrack to her slideshow of our adoption journey, forever tied to our history with Madison now.

In any event, it was a good day.  We went to bed early, ready to tackle a new week this week.  It's going to be an interesting one, now that we've seen the forecast.  Stay tuned...!