What a busy week!!!!!

So remember that bit about not staying home much? This week was a great example of that.

Monday we went kite flying (been there, did that, wrote the blog, right? haha)

Tuesday we went to a ballet! A church downtown has Feeding the Soul of the City concerts. This month was a short ballet performance by the Grand Rapids Ballet. It is a small room and we were right on the front corner. They did a fantasy about Shakespearian characters meeting in the wood. So when Romeo and Juliet did their death scene they were at our feet. Ian and Alison were both mesmerized. It was amazing to be so close to the dancers. We could feel the air rush past us as they danced in front of us. It was lots of fun. We got a compliment from an older lady as we were getting buckled in the car. She talked to Alison about what a good girl she had been and then she thanked me for bringing my kids to something like the ballet.

Weds we took Ian to get weighed at the nursing moms group. He was 20lb 2oz! No wonder he feels so big. And I thought he was huge at Christmas when he was 12lbs!

Thursday we had a wonderful time. We were gone all day with Grandma! Alison has been going to Hackley Library for story time since she's been 15mo. She just recently has become very interested in Mr. Hackley. So we've been learning more about him. As we drove by a few weeks ago, I pointed out Mr. Hackley's house. Since then she's been full of questions about him and his house. So Thursday we set out to explore many of the places that Mr Hackley was responsible for starting in our town.


First we went to The Hackley House which also includes the Hume House. We were our own tour group. So we got to ask lots of questions and take our time in each room of both houses. The woodwork is all handcarved and the stained glass windows are amazing. The worst part of the tour was that I had made sure the camera card was empty, but forgot to charge the battery. So we had to be selective about our pictures. We're going to go back to take pics of the outsides of the houses.





After the tour (we took almost 2hrs!) we had to go to our library, Hackley Public Library. Alison got to show Grandma all around "her" library. Since it was Thursday and free day at the Muskegon Art Museum and it's right next door to the library we went there too. The interesting thing is that Mr Hackley started the art museum too. We saw amazing glass pieces. Unfortunately they don't let you take pictures and my camera was dead anyway.

To finish off the day we had dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's. Alison begged grandpa for a scooter ride so they went outside together for awhile. She sure slept good last night!

Finally today we were going to stay home and get caught up. But an early morning call changed that. Instead we met my friend and her son at the mall to play and have lunch while her car was getting fixed across the street. We hadn't seen them for almost a month so it was nice to sit and talk while the kids played.

So tomorrow we are going to stay home! Yeah, that's it, except there is Mayfest and the Kite festival and the newspaper tours for the 150th anniversary and 101 other things to do...so maybe we won't stay home...hmmmm.....decisions, decisions...