Hamm

Today marked the first appearance of a Toy Story character Hamm on our stage, and it was pretty cool.  Now we've got Hamm, Rex and Mr. Potato Head inflatables, and the goal is to have them all on stage next weekend for one big moment.  But this week, the skit was fun and the message about temptation being "Lotso" trouble was done well throughout the morning through videos, the skit, and eventually the message too.  Kids had a great time this morning, as you can see from just a few of Maddie's pictures below. She took a good bit, and we have those uploaded on the KidPak gallery, but these are a few highlights:

We picked up some Chinese food after that from Wang's, and Mom and I shared some snow peas and chicken to keep it safe for my current diet.  The stomach and esophagus still bother me from time to time. Maddie got her usually General Tso's chicken, plus she's liking the Crab Rangoons lately.  

After lunch, I actually earned my running badge for September on the iFit, which was pretty cool.  I have both September walking and running badges right now.  

Meanwhile, Maddie was making beads, and then working on her calculus, which we'll just say she needs to keep working on.  We'll leave it at that, but afterwards, the two of us played a LEGO Marvel game for a good bit, and that was pretty fun.  We were in Wakanda fighting off bad guys and collecting studs.  

Tonight's feature flick was "The Music Man."  We watched the 1962 movie, the one we have in our collection, although we talked about ordering the 2003 version some time soon.  The reason for watching this movie had nothing to do with our usual seasonal choices, but rather the fact that we're seeing this live next week at City Springs.  Their new season starts, and we're all pretty excited to see this play.  It's one of my favorites!

We read tonight, some shorter chapters, and this latest adventure of the Kingdom Keepers is getting closer to the end.  But we're enjoying it, and already asking the question what to read next.  We said our prayers afterwards, and got to sleep after that.