The Daintys

This past weekend Miss Leah turned FIVE years old.  Five seems so grown up - it is hard to believe!  Leah got to pick the restaurant where we went out to Brunch for her birthday.  Then, we did a little shopping and she traded in some of her birthday money for a new book, a purse, and a bow and arrow set at the Disney store.  Yep.  That's Leah in a nutshell right there, hah!  She is delightful, and says the funniest things sometimes.  And then at other times, she says such insightful things.  The other morning in the car on the way to school she said to me out of the blue, "Mom, do you want to know what I think about this whole big wide world?" (I said yes, obviously!)  Then she told me, "Well I think that the whole time we're in this whole world we're actually really in heaven already.  And it's like we're dreaming the whole time we're on the Earth.  And then when we wake up, we're in heaven!  We don't even have to go anywhere!" Som

Actually, it was a whole WEEKEND out!  Grammy B. came to watch Leah and Wyatt the other weekend while Ryan and I went to Chicago for a mini getaway.  (Thanks Mom!)  We took the train downtown, and were able to walk right to our hotel, and pretty much everywhere else we had planned to go.  On Friday night we saw Million Dollar Quartet, and on Saturday night, we went to the Lyric Opera House and saw Parsifal.  (It has been a loooong time since I've had two late-night out and about events!)  We had so much fun - missed the kiddos of course, but it was nice to be able to sleep in, eat a meal without getting up a million times, and have actual adult conversations!  Sometimes the afternoons and evenings are so hectic, it feels like we haven't talked in days! We also went to Garrett's popcorn 3 times.  At least.  (And I admit I was wrong about the whole cheese popcorn mixed with caramel corn thing - it IS delicious!)  And we went shopping downtown for a birthday present for Leah.