Bouncing Back

The thunder was rumbling today again, but there wasn't much in the way of actual rainfall for us. Still, the overcast conditions helped cool things down a bit to a brisk eighty five degrees or so. It's amazing what you perceive as "cool" after enduring triple digit weather!

Today we returned to Monkey Joe's for a time to let Madison run off some steam for a few hours. It's the perfect indoor location for that sort of thing. When we purchased Madison's birthday party package, we got five more free visits, so we used one of our entries today. The funny thing was that we wound up getting another free visit to compensate for one of the inflatables collapsing! I think one of the kids pulled a plug on it or something. Madison wasn't inside it, but the management was there in a flash and dealt with the situation as professionally as they could. On top of that, we got a free "bounce back" pass, which we might be using next Monday...

Afterwards, we went to Dairy Queen again to get what is now probably Madison's favorite word: "ice cream!" Mommy had a free coupon for a vanilla ice cream, which Madison promptly swallowed whole. We keep telling her, "slow down!" To help emphasize why, we grab our foreheads and act in pain - but sure enough, Madison gets a brain freeze and presses her forehead on Daddy's chest until it goes away. Fortunately, this doesn't happen that often!

Next, we did some shopping at Best Buy for a new printer. Mommy would like to print out coupons and such from here, and Daddy will have to hook up this new printer soon so we can accomplish that. In the meantime, Madison had fun picking up all the pamphlets and leafing through them. Here I imagined that secretly, she's absorbing all the information about Cannon printers and HP printers that she can, so that she can share the new information with her friends at church. But really, she just wanted to whack Daddy on the head with them.

We were up late last night, so we were up late this morning - and all tired early tonight as well. In fact, Madison was quite ready for bed at 7:45 or so and is already asleep at 8:15. I just snuck in there and snapped a photo of her sleeping. I didn't use the flash for fear of waking her up, so I had to keep perfectly still to allow more light into the camera's exposure. Note: that is Alice that is sleeping beside her, face down.

Isn't she cute? We are so blessed! Sweet dreams, our precious little angel.