After Soccer Cubs on Saturday morning, we ran a few errands in Sunset Valley then spent at least an hour reading in the bookstore. We also stumbled upon a child safety event at Old Navy. There were several police cars and a firetruck we got to climb into, and inside the store there were various safety-related activities. Well, if there's one thing we know about Spencer after almost 4 years, it's that he doesn't like surprises of that sort. If I had told him before we set out that we would be going to Old Navy to get him fingerprinted, etc., he would've been totally on-board. But you don't just spring something like that on him! The expression in the first photo below pretty much sums it up. So we passed on the indoor activities and just checked out the emergency vehicles.
Today, we met Spencer's school friend Taylor Bee and her mommy at the Paramount Theater for a Ballet Austin production called "Not Afraid of the Dark: The Show that Glows!" This was the first theater-type-event Spencer has attended and it was fun - a glow-in-the-dark ballet for the littles. At the beginning, the ceiling and walls were suddenly covered in lights from disco balls and he gasped in the sweetest way and grabbed my hand. At one point I heard him say, "Hey Taylor Bee, this sure is nice!" Mommy's heart melted quite a few times during that hour.
It was pouring rain all day and I was regretting that I hadn't found him new rain boots or a rain jacket yet. But then I found last year's boots and they still fit (sorta). And the golf jacket Daddy brought him from Pebble Beach was water resistant, though it came down to his knees. And the purple umbrella he grabbed on the way out of the house ended up being broken. But my little hobo was happy as a clam splashing around downtown before and after the show.
