Weekend Fun

Joey hard at work lugging sidewalk chalk

Grace's garage is fun for everyone.  And yes, that's my daughter dressed wildly inappropriately for a 60-degree evening.

Mel playing catch with her friends

Unusual moment of all four girls sitting still

Silly girls

 Friday night, all four neighborhood girls got together for the first time in a while.  Well, since Aya moved out of the neighborhood, that's part of the challenge of all of us getting together; but, our friend Amanda has been going through chemotherapy all summer, and has not been feeling too up for playdates, although we've still gotten to see Ellie a few times we've managed to whisk her away.  We were lucky this past weekend to have both Amanda and Ellie join us for pizza and girl conversations at Grace's house.  All four girls - and Joey trying to keep up with them - played well together all evening, with relatively few hiccups along the way.

Saturday, Joey and I tried a class at Gymboree, after the success of the pirate party.  He did great, but I might have had him in the "wrong" class - he was at the top of his age group, and one of the only ones walking in the class.  He still enjoyed himself, staying very busy with all of the activities.  While we were there, Mel & Jeff went to Charlie's soccer game, and then we all met in Fishers for some fun at Charlie & Sammie's before the guys hit the golf course.  Saturday night was a fun girls' night out to prepare my friend Erika for her surgery this week, and Sunday night was family night at Ron & Gaylynn's, visiting with Austin during his weekend "furlough" from boarding school.  Melanie enjoyed an evening of silliness with Molly & Lily - with Joey, once again, working hard to keep up.  My camera wasn't working that evening :(