A very busy Saturday (part 1)

Shawn woke up and got ready in record-breaking time this morning, in spite of the fact that we slept a little longer than I had intended. We wanted to get to Home Depot for a kids' workshop before they ran out of the free project kits. Work stations were set up outside (not their usual place, but we figured out why later) and we could hear hammering from the parking lot. The project was a fire rescue airplane. We were able to put the plane together very easily. I assisted Shawn by (nervously) holding the pieces still while he hammered. He decided to just use the included decals to decorate his plane and opted out of painting it. (A-ok by me!)

Just as we were finishing the project a real, live fire truck pulled up right behind us! (Ah-ha! Now the outside set-up made sense!) Kids got to climb through the fire truck to see what was inside. A very kind firefighter helped Shawn get down when he was done. The fire fighters handed out coloring books and sticker badges. When we were all done, Shawn went to the main table to retrieve his special project pin, certificate, some activity pages, AND a bonus mini Lego fire rescue truck! We keep losing the pins that accompany each project, so Shawn and I agreed that we need to find a better way to keep them instead of simply pinning to the Home Depot workshop apron. No one else seems to have this problem. We see kids' aprons practically dripping with project pins. We've only attended 3 workshops, but we lost the first pin on our way to our car minutes after getting it; the second pin fell off this morning, but luckily Shawn found it in his carseat - before he sat down. He won't be dripping with pins any time soon!

Since we got ready so quickly this morning, I realized we skipped breakfast! Practically across the street from Home Depot was The Great American Bagel shop. Shawn had a chocolate chip bagel with plain cream cheese and I had a 10 grain & honey bagel with egg and cheese. Lilly tried her hardest to steal bites, but reluctantly settled for her Zwieback toast instead.

A very busy Saturday (part 3)

Sister love

Raj got home minutes after us. When he brought in the mail I found a package from Hayjac Designs: a necklace from Jennifer with the kids' initials. "Sterling silver 5/8" framed discs with decorative scroll at the top. The discs are high polished silver and can be stamped with block, script or lowercase font. The discs are hung on sterling silver ball chain, which come in 16",18" or 20" lengths." Love it!

We missed the Itasca Village Oktoberfest in early September, which we go to every year. It was pretty disappointing when we realized that. So, I did some research to find another that we could still go to. As a result, this evening we went to the Lynfred Winery Oktoberfest in Roselle. There was grape stomping and cork throwing for kids. They had food, but not really what I think of for Oktoberfest, so Shawn had a hot dog, pretzel, and brownie and Raj and I nibbled when he wasn't looking. We agreed to go to Schnitzel Platz tomorrow to make up for it!