Sunday, June 10

Today we had a relatively quiet day. We went back to church at Belmont Methodist since we're still having car troubles. David got noisy early, so we slipped out to the nursery - which was unmanned. So, I just stayed there with him. There is a speaker system though that allowed me to listen to the service while he and I played with the Thomas set. A little later in the service, a dad came in with his 20 month old son. I told him that I was just a visitor, but would stay with both kids if he liked. He decided to stay too. I had noticed his accent immediately, and asked about where he was from. It turns out that he's from Australia. He and his family have been stationed at the air force base nearby for the next 3 years. His name is Russel and his wife's name is Wendy. We visited with them during the coffee time after the service. Wendy has a daughter named Porche (sp?) who is in first grade this year. I exchanged info with her, so we may get the girls together to play sometime. Still no boys Jamie's age. But, we'll keep on trying.

After church, we went out for breakfast again. Tim likes it as a tradition. David ate lots of eggs. The last bit were even heavily salted and peppered by him, but they still were consumed! Next, we went out for a bike ride. We decided to try to navigate to a nearby ice cream parlor (Rancatore's) by bike - as Rachel's first big outing. She did fairly well. We took back roads all the way there, and made it ok. This is a yummy place for ice cream. They even have lots of frozen yogurt flavors - I had almond chip (had lots of almonds and chunks of chocolate). Jamie was disappointed, though, because they didn't have mint chocolate chip, so he just had a root beer. We made it back home (mostly uphill), and decided to rest awhile.



Then we suited up and went out to the Belmont sprinkler park. The water was really cold!! Jamie & Rachel had a good time, but David was not at all interested in the cold water. He ended up on the playground.







When we got home, Jan & Don were outside, so we visited with them a bit. They're headed to China for a trip with the native speaker who teaches at Don's school. Don also asked us if we could do him a favor. It seems that he's going to be on Jepoardy on June 21 (I think) and wanted us to record it for him. He says that it was taped almost a year ago, and he's not allowed to say how many shows he'll be on. It will be fun to watch! It made me think of Julie and her attempts to be on Millionaire.

For supper, we walked down to Brother's Pizza. Then back home to settle in for the night. Jamie is madly reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He announced today that if he reads just 2 chapters each day, he'll finish in 2 weeks. That means I only have 2 weeks to reread Half Blood Prince. Jamie spent a lot of time reading on the sunporch off of our bedroom today. I am so tickled to see him enjoying reading so much!! We had to force him to read the bare minimum for so long. But hopefully this will be the beginning of a new trend for him.

This is a wide shot Tim took of the sprinkler park. There is a good little playground there too. You can see it in the background.