What a wonderful weekend…we laughed a lot, played some backyard football, rode bikes, worshiped and served together, and ate some deeeelish Chinese food. Here are the highlights:
*Lilly hosted a Murder-Mystery with some friends from school. Josie didn’t really understand the whole concept of role-playing, but she got to hang out with some super girls and make friends. They stayed up late into the night and had a blast! The whole crew camped out in the living room, and it was a fun night for all. Levi and the little girls headed for other homes for the night, and Kim and I had fun listening to the girls upstairs.
*Annabelle learned to ride a bike this week! She’d seen it done before, but never took the plunge. We’ve spent the last 2 Sunday afternoons playing at Spring Creek Park, and some of us have ridden our bikes (Kim takes the truck as the emergency response vehicle!) Annabelle started to get the hang of it last week, but her collision with the basketball goal post left me a little hesitant to allow her to ride on the road. But by the time it came to head home yesterday, she was a 2-wheelin’ machine!
*Josie doesn’t understand the subtleties of the Tampa-2 defense, but she’s a super bakyard footballer! She’s fast, and apparently is impervious to the cold. While we were all bundled up, she insisted that she was fine in shorts and a t-shirt.
*Levi invented a game that we can all play–Sublett Ball. Played on a basketball court with a playground ball, we can adjust the number of allowable bounces & touches on each side according to the skill level of the players. I have to tell you that Lilly, Josie, Sadie and I crushed Kim, Levi, and Annabelle. We took the first 2 games in a sweep. But I suspect that there will be a rematch.
*Kim got Josie registered for school. She’s in the middle of testing for her classes, and Kim is trying to work it out for Josie to join Lilly’s 7th grade classes. There’s not an ESL offering at Lilly’s school; they bus the ESL students to the other middle school every day. We’d love to see Josie and Lil share some school time. Josie tested into 7th grade math, and will take more tests tomorrow. She’s really doing well. I had her join Annabelle for some basic ESL homework today…spelling the days of the week, months, using capital letters, etc. I like to do homework. At least 4th grade ESL homework. Who knew?
*When we landed at Harrisburg with Annabelle, there was a huge welcoming party. Josie had seen the pictures and commented on the number of cousins who showed up. Tonight she got her Welcome Party, complete with a cake! The Bedford cousins met us at the Slinky Action Zone for some celebratory play time. The highlight was the Lazer Tag! We even got Kim’s dad to join the fray, and there are video monitors outside the arena for spectators to view the mayhem. Nothing says family bonding like blasting away at your cousins with lazer guns!
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