Weekend in review

After our day at DelGrosso's on Thursday, the kids and I had a laid back day on Friday. Yesterday morning Paul took Nadia and Ian to Lowe's for their fourth (of six) Avenger's build projects. This one was the easiest (Hawkeye's jet). Oliver and I went to Walmart and the library while they were at Lowe's. After we ate lunch at home, I took Nadia and Ian to the Acorn Festival about 10 minutes from our house. We heard a concert by the Sunbury City Band (Ian's favorite songs included one from music from Music Man and another featuring the music of John Williams) and then they did crafts for about an hour. There were eight different craft stations set up, and the kids picked which ones they wanted to do. It's a free event, and we went for the first time last year. During the band concert Ian told me he would like to play the drums, and Nadia said she wants to play the flute. Usually Ian says he wants to learn to play the guitar. I am planning to teach all three of them to play the piano, and I'm hoping each of them will also learn another instrument along the way. Nadia has been asking me to start teaching her the flute, but I told her first she has to learn how to play the recorder. We have not been nearly as faithful with the piano as I had hoped we would be this summer, and she has certainly regressed. Hopefully we can get back on track with that soon!

This morning we went to church. I slipped out part way through the first service and went back to our previous church to play a flute solo for their special music ("His Eye is on the Sparrow"). I was signed up to help in Nadia's class during the second service so Paul covered for me until I got back from playing the flute. During part of Sunday School they saw a puppet show about Elijah, and Ian's class joined the other children for that as well. After we had lunch at home, I took Nadia and Ian to see the musical "Oklahoma" at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport. They enjoyed it, although I don't think it would rank as their most favorite musical (I think "Annie" and "Mary Poppins" would rank higher in their minds). Next weekend we're going to see "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs", and "Alice in Wonderland." Each of those productions will be no more than one hour long so Oliver will be joining us. Today's musical was 3 hours long including the intermission, and Oliver never would have lasted that long.