Marching through March

As has been typical lately, there aren't any photos from the beginning of the week since there really wasn't much of anything going on.

On Thursday evening Bennett pulled out a game, asking if he could play it.  I suggested that first perhaps he and Daddy could vacuum.  He was so excited!  He put the game away, grabbed his vacuum, and told Daddy that he was going to vacuum upstairs and that Daddy should vacuum downstairs.  Who knew someone could be so excited about cleaning!

When they were done with that, we made a pillow fort/ tent.  I don't think Bennett really understood that the "tent" was the sheet strewn over the pillows.  I think he thought that the stack of pillows was the tent.  Either way, he had lots of fun with it.

Friday night we watched Peter Pan.  Bennett has a very abridged book that he's liked so we thought we would try the movie.  We'd forgotten how many potentially scary parts there are.  He did ok with it, but wasn't a fan of the crocodile, Captain Hook chasing people, Peter Pan trying to hurt Captain Hook, etc.


On Saturday the weather was in the 50s.  This warmer temperatures plus the fact that it was Celtic Celebration meant that there were a lot of people at Sturbridge. 

We were a little sad to learn that Isaac (the calf) is back in with his mother since he hadn’t been taking a bottle well over the week.  Hopefully he starts to eat more.  Interestingly it only takes a day or two for the mom to forget that she had a calf so we'll have to see how things go with them being back together after a week apart.  We were told that Bonnie was "tolerating" Isaac.

When we got to the blacksmith shop people were getting a chance to work the bellows and bend a piece of metal.  After lots of kids having a turn Mummy had a chance to give it a try.  Later, when speaking with the blacksmith he was surprised to hear that we had never been on the other side of the chain in the blacksmith shop. I think he thinks we've seen/done a lot more than we have!

Seeing how it was Celtic Celebration  there was, of course, some Irish music.  Full Gael was performing and Phil even joined them to play the bones.  Luckily we got there a little early and snagged some of the last seats in the room.  It quickly became packed and a bit of a fire hazard.

We also went back to Sturbridge on Sunday.  When we were there on Saturday Chris was offered a really cool experience, provided that we got there right at opening the next day.  This was likely offered to him because we go every week, have gotten to know the interpreters, and largely the stars aligned and we were in the right place at the right time.  (And this is different than the secret experience I mentioned last week.)  Talk to us in person and we would likely tell you what happened and share pictures.  Sorry, I wish I could share more about it, but I think if word got out then we might not be able to have experiences like this in the future.  :)

We couldn't go to OSV just for that one thing, so we walked around a bit more, seeing some people we had just seen the day before.  We headed out a bit earlier than usual and headed off to Alexander’s 7th birthday party.

Bennett had a blast playing with the other kids.  And considering the age range (3, 5, 7, 12, and 14) they all played together really well.  Bennett enjoyed jumping off of Alexander's bed the most.  He also played a little floor hockey and tried air hockey as well.

 Since he hadn't napped on the way to the party and he'd been running around a lot he fell asleep in the car on the way home at 5:45ish.  We got home and transferred him to bed, and then a few hours later when he was more soundly asleep we changed him into PJs.  He ended up sleeping for 13 hours!  I guess he was tired.