Life as a Leach

Matt and I went to my first hockey game last night with our good friends Jenn and Steven.  Jenn and I gave Steven and Matt tickets for Valentine's Day. They played the Ottawa Senators, and it was intense!  They ended up losing in the last 30 seconds of overtime, but it was a really good game between two excellent teams.  I have to admit that it was much more exciting than baseball!! Between periods, they did a game with Chris Cooley and some other Redskin player I didn't know.  They were quite entertaining! There was also a short peewee hockey game.  There was one little girl who was so much smaller than all of the others that she just couldn't keep up.  She just sort of skated (walked is more like it!) around the rink aimlessly until Slapshot carried her off! I would definitely go to another game.  It was a lot of fun with good company!  The highlight was the walk back to the car when Steven danced a jig in the middl...

Welp, we finally saw Wicked.   It only took 3 tries!!  Here are my thoughts on the show: *  The lead (Elphiba) was played by her standby. At first, we were really annoyed at this and figured that she wouldn't be any good since she didn't even have another part in the show.  Then we realized that this girl's sole job was to study the character and be totally ready for it at a moment's notice.  It is such a HUGE part that it's unfair to expect someone to learn it well while performing another part.  The girl was AWESOME!  No Idina Menzel , but still very good.  She could definitely do the part. *  The show itself was rather dark and scary.  I was prepared for this because I read the vile, atrocious, putrid, mildly difficult to read book and knew that at least some of the mood had to be portrayed in the show.  However, I was not prepared for the number of YOUNG children (4 and 5 year olds!!) that were in attendance.  I know ...

...to see the wizard Wicked!  Matt and I are celebrating our anniversary by spending a night in Fredericksburg and seeing the musical Wicked.  We've tried three times to get tickets with no success, so we're really excited about it!  I'll be back late Saturday night!  :)

Caleb and I are making an alphabet book together.  It's a slow process because he loses interest quickly, but we're getting there!  We are finding pictures that start with a certain letter, then gluing the pictures onto a piece of card stock.  We'll eventually put them in plastic sleeves and put them in a binder so that he will have his very own ABC books!  We've been working hard on his letters and sounds, and he's really making the connection....except that he gets confused when letters don't sound like the sound they make--say H, M, and R out loud, for example! I'll post some pictures soon...as soon as I take some! 

...how much this picture at the header of my blog makes me smile!  I love the shot, I love his smile, I love that he's outside, I love the picnic table, I love how the color of the wood matches my blog layout...I just love it all!  I wish I had thought to print it out last night.  I need to remedy that this weekend!

We have been loving the warmer weather these last few days! If there's a basket around, he will put it on his head!! A few black and whites for you to enjoy! This boy has such a vivid imagination!  He was pretending to put out a fire with his fire hose. Reeling in the fire hose to load it back on the truck! Enjoying the blue sand in the sand box Being a little bit camera shy