A Great Day To Be A Mom

It has been a busy day!!! Isabella, Lisi and I started out at Michael's (craft store) where they have a pre-school story & craft time. We met our pre-school friend, Emma, and her Mom there, too. We heard a story about Thomas The Tank, and then each pre-schooler made a Thomas felt story-board. It was a hoot! Isabella and Emma were each pretty exacting with their coloring and cutting. Lisi, on the other hand, just squeezed tacky craft glue on everything within her reach. We took home 1 beautifully executed story board, and 1 almost-finished story board...and some random papers with alot of glue. I think it is still drying in the car:) Then we loaded Emma up in the Suburban with us and headed over to Chuck E Cheese. Her Mom thought I was a little nuts taking 3 kids, ages 3,4 and 5, alone, but the girls were so good and we had SO much fun. Then off to school for Iz and Emma, and Lisi went to play with her friends Jordan, Jake and Jadyn. (When I went to pick her up, she did NOT want to have to leave~ it was cute.) And then off to PaPa's office for their first eye exams...and NOT given by PaPa. He was afraid that it might not go well with dialation drops, etc, so he offered to have Dr Den Hartog do the exams:) Lucky her! But despite the major meltdown from Isabella on the drive there, it went REALLY well. Lisi had requested that Rachel, who works with Dr Den Hartog and also goes to church with us, be the one to help her. Super cute:) And as a super-bonus, when we walked into the waiting room, there were GiGi and TGO (The Great One)~ the girls' great grandparents! They were also there to have TGO's eyes examed:) So after confirming that their eye health and vision was A-OK, the girls got gum. Everyone was happy.
Of all days to leave my camera at home! I had about a ka-gillion good photo-ops! I did snap a few on my camera-phone at Chuck E Cheese~ I hope the resolution turns out OK. But all in all, it was just a really good day to be a mom.