Peter Pan

The cast of Peter Pan at the Seattle Children's Theater

Me and my sweetie!

Up against the wall, you scoundrels!

Harrison looking pretty cool!

My handsome boy!

Arlie - pretty girl, so grown up!

Her first fancy dress, bought at Jessica McClintock

Hayley in her Jessica McClintock frock

Fancy girl!

Hannah hamming it up in her new fancy duds!

Strappy sandals, wrap, fancy dress........Hannah is all grown up!

Kids waiting at The Old Spaghetti Factory.......

My favorite picture - all my kids dressed up and looking sweet!

Lunch at The Old Spaghetti Factory

We had a great time taking the kids to see Peter Pan at the Seattle Children's Theater. We went with our neighbors Amy, Jason and Abbie and started by having lunch at The Old Spaghetti Factory. The kids love that place! The play was amazing.......always such a high-quality production with great actors, beautiful sets, original music. Totally worth it! I wish we could do that more often, but it was a special Christmas outing. The kids dressed up (a rarity!) and everyone looked great. Such a fun day........I love days like that when we can take the whole family to do something special.

Spaghetti and retainers.........

We went to Spaghetti Factory for Harrison's birthday dinner. Harrison was especially pleased with his candle-topped spumoni after dinner, the singing and seeing one of his teachers at the restaurant! After dinner, Jeff got the crazy idea to smuggle our leftover bread out in the hoods of Arlie's and Harrison's sweatshirts! It was hysterical and the kids thought they were being so "bad". All the way home Arlie kept asking "was that stealing?" I explained that we already paid for it, we just took it home in unconvential form! We tried to feed it to Charlie, but apparently His Royal Highness doesn't like sourdough.

Immediately upon arriving home, Hayley had that sudden, dreadful gasp that says "uh-oh, you're not gonna like this!". She had left her retainer wrapped in a napkin on the table! Her $600 retainer. In a napkin. Exactly the place she's been told a hundred times by both her orthodontist and her parents NOT TO EVER PUT A RETAINER! We called the restaurant but they couldn't find it. So, Doug and Hayley drove back and decided to search for it (I tossed in some disposable latex gloves!). In the first bus bin she looked (alerted by a birthday candle in the bin!) she FOUND IT! A miracle, considering it was at least a half hour later, the restaurant was full on a Friday night, and the bus bins simply hadn't been emptied into the larger (and grosser) garbage yet. She is SO lucky. Doug suggested she buy a lottery ticket (if only she were old enough!).

The unexpected departure of Hayley and Doug gave Harrison an opportunity to shoot his new BB gun. What a blast! I tried it, and so did Hannah. Arlie was terrified to try it, and when we finally convinced her she was trembling! But she managed to pull off a perfect shot, hitting the target. Annie Oakley!