Prior to Nadia's fourth birthday I gave her a few options for her "party," and I was not surprised that she picked seeing Jonah in Lancaster at the Sight and Sound Theater because as a three-year-old that was definitely her favorite Bible story. Seven of us had lunch and birthday cake at Friendly's and then nine of us attended Jonah in 2012. I was in a wheelchair due to being on bed rest during Oliver's pregnancy, and Paul and I missed out on Friendly's due to a MFM doctor's appointment. Last year she said she wanted to have a similar "party," and so ten of us had lunch and birthday cake at Friendly's and then attended Noah in 2013. This year she wanted to see Moses. We were going to go on her actual birthday (24th), but my sister and her family will be in Maryland next week. Paul teaches on Tuesdays and Thursdays this month, the theater is closed on Mondays, and all the tickets were sold out for Fridays when we went to buy our tickets. That meant we needed to go on a Wednesday. Yesterday ten of us went to see Moses and then had dinner and birthday cake at IHOP. The last two years Great Gram was part of our group. She didn't come this year, but Uncle Maurice, who just came home for a visit from Brazil a few days ago, joined us this time.
For a few years I have been planning to take the kids to a Day out with Thomas (the train) at some point, and when I looked on the website a couple of months ago I discovered that Thomas would be 5 miles away from the Sight and Sound Theater this week. So I bought tickets for us to do Thomas in the morning, prior to going to see Moses. We live 2 hours and 15 minutes away from these sites so it made sense to do it all in one trip. A slightly cooler day would have been nice, but the crowds were much smaller than they said they are on the weekends, which was much appreciated. We spent three hours there, and we could have stayed longer. Oliver did a lot of waving and saying "choo choo." It was fabulous to have Paul's mom with us, as we hadn't seen her for a few weeks.
Nadia's birthday celebrations actually started on Sunday (15th) because Uncle Al and Aunt Millie gave her birthday presents that day. Yesterday (18th) she opened up her gifts from Great Gram and Paul's parents, blew out her six candles, and ate some delicious chocolate cake that Aunt Millie had made with the requested Frozen decorations. Paul's parents managed to keep the cake cool in their car all day long even though it was over 90 degrees outside. We're going to let her open her birthday presents from us on Saturday (21st) because Paul won't be with us in Maryland. If the weather cooperates, we're going to use our free tickets for Six Flags on her actual birthday. I'm sure at some point in her life she'll want a more traditional party that includes inviting children to our house or some other venue, but for now she prefers to go to Lancaster to see a show at Sight and Sound, and that's fine with me. Next year they'll be doing Joseph, and she says that what she wants to do for her seventh birthday party. We shall see if she changes her mind over the next year or not.
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