kids' day

our builder told us about a kids' event at a christian bookstore down by the house and i just had to check it out.  i am so glad we did!  it was fantastic!  the kids were each (all three) given a gift bag with a movie (some patriotic thing that i haven't checked out yet), a veggietales cd, veggietales stickers and a pen.  then they each got to pick a "prize" to add to their bag from a large selection of items.  madelyn picked a helicopter that you can pull a string to make the propeller spin, mason picked a cement truck and i picked a veggietales mug for maddux.

while we were waiting to fill out forms for the hourly drawings, madelyn and mason spotted the life-size bob and larry!  they could hardly contain their excitement!  but when we got closer, mason became deathly afraid and would not get any closer than 10 feet and even then he was holding on to us for dear life and crying.  madelyn willingly went up to take a picture but i am so disappointed to see, now, that it is blurry.  bummer.

after the meet and greet with bob and larry, both kids made sparkly 'microphones' for the release of the new veggietales movie "the princess and the pop star".  and then it was off for face painting.  of course they chose bob (mason) and larry (madelyn).  i was proud of how still they sat the entire time.

and that wasn't all!  there were amazing balloon artists.  madelyn went very basic (and mason didn't get anything), but i saw a giraffe hat, a basketball hoop hat complete with a ball on a 'string' and a complex elephant hat.  the sad part was madelyn took it off her head in the parking lot and dropped it to the ground where it instantly popped.  she was so hysterical that a man leaving the bookstore drove down the parking lot to get what was left for her.  (he told me that he didn't realize that it was a popped balloon, he thought that it was a ball or something.)

they also had a wild animal company sharing a silver-back fox, a yellow python, a lemur and a large, white parrot(?) for petting.  next the kids had a free hot dog lunch (adults had to pay $0.50 for theirs). 

so much fun and all for free!  i couldn't believe how few people were there.  we will watch for this again next year!  there were also quite a few sales for the day and we got a few Christmas presents.  love.