Music Program - Finally!

Due to the pandemic, G has never had a music program at school. Tuesday night was finally the third graders time to shine! G had been a little apprehensive about performing, and didn't want to do it, but after performing a few times for the school early this week, he was SO excited to sing for us on Tuesday night. All of the grandparents joined us, and we had a blast listening to their little voices projecting out over the gym. It had been a really long time since we had sat through a performance in the Red Pine gym, and I'm so happy that we had a chance to (he's been there 4 years!)

G was also really excited to show off one of the art pieces they worked on recently. It's in one of the display cases near the front door. Can you tell what it is? Here's a hint...he was SO excited to see it when we went to California, but the rain prevented us from reading this famous sign...

We decided to venture out for a Mexican dinner on Cinco de Mayo. Never again - it was chaos!

I took this pic to show the constant battle G and I go through when we are out to eat (he's a leftie, I'm a rightie...and you'd think we'd have figured this out by now.) I also enjoyed Ava's bored expression in the background. That's kinda the way we were all feeling by the time it was done. A bit overstimulated and ready to get back home!

And on another exciting note...we got a new dishwasher this week! Our last one decided to go on strike during the dry cycle, so we were constantly having to hand dry all of our dishes...annoying. Scott went out last weekend to scout out a few options, and then we agreed on which one we wanted. G came with me to purchase it, and then we hit up the popcorn/ice cream shop just down the road from the appliance store. YUM!

Even though there was a long backorder for the dishwashers, the sales guy was able to bump us up near the top and it was installed on Thursday. I LOVE IT! It's so quiet and has many fancy features that I never even thought of having. And, it makes the unloading process go so much faster.

We're taking it easy this weekend. It's rainy and stormy, and seems like a good idea to just stay inside. We've got a really busy week coming up, so any down time we can have now will be well-used!

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