Busy weekend

It was a snowy weekend here in GR. The snow started last Thursday night and didn't let up until Saturday night. We didn't let that keep us in, though. I (not so) patiently waited all week to see what surprise date Jason had arranged for the two of us on Saturday night. Hannah had fun with a babysitter while Jason treated me to a dinner at Leo's downtown. I had a warm goat cheese salad and stuffed shrimp. Oh so good!!

After dinner, we then walked to my next surprise - attending the GR Symphony Holiday Pops! Jason scored us third row tickets, right in the center of the aisle. It was somewhat "lucky" that we got those seats, I guess. As we made our way to our seats, the lady next to Jason had her coat draped over his seat. We politely informed her that we were sitting there, and she asked if we knew the people who held those seats. "No. We got them through ticketmaster." She then made a comment that we must have JUST gotten them b/c the man who held the season tickets for those seats had just passed away the week before! We then started tuning in to the conversations around us, where we picked up a lot of "heading down to Florida" chatter. Looking around, we realized that we were by far about the youngest in the audience. Oh well. I guess we're really "old people" at heart anyway - just look at Jason's boat :-) We had a great view and the music was phenominal. Totally got me into the holiday spirit.

Sunday was very busy. Early church as usual and then I stayed for Sunday school as I've been for the past several weeks to lead the 4th graders with their portion of the Sunday school Christmas program rehearsal. They had to learn the "common" Christmas carol One Small Child (yeah, I didn't know it either!). I was a bit unsure how the program would go after a shaky rehearsal, but they did a great job. The whole program was nicely done. It will be fun to someday see Hannah up front. The little 3 and 4 year olds were adorable. Inevitably, one little girl had to put on a show by pulling her dress up over her head once in front of the congregation. I would loved to have seen her proud parents' faces :-)

As for Hannah, she is a busy girl. She is particularly fascinated by the Christmas tree. She inconspicuously rolls right up underneath it and then very carefully touches the bottom branches. I've caught her more than once. I'm definitely having to keep a much closer eye on her. She's not quite crawling but getting closer. She's also into making this "f f f" sound and even crinkling up her nose and sticking out her lips as she does it. I have no idea what it means but she looks very serious as she does it. She also now gets very excited when we get her bottle ready or bring her food to the table. There really is nothing that she won't eat. We're working on mastering puffs. She's good at grabbing them but not so great at getting them into her mouth. Hand-eye coordination gets her every time. No pics tonight. Hopefully soon.