What a Week!

It started out as a typical outing to the Chandler Mall Play Place. Noelle went up to a random Dad and sat on his lap. He looked around, nervous and confused, wondering who this friendly child's parent was. Then she asked if she could spin around for him in her new princess clothes, which she did. Then she proceeded to point at his daughter and say, "Your girl is mean. She took my shoes." (which was true.) Then , there was Stanton , who wants desparately to engage another child in a game of chase, but is too shy to ask. He will follow kids around, and sometimes he gets really close to asking them if they want to play, but then he gets scared and runs back to me and asks me to ask. Finally, after about 30 minutes of him almost asking this boy, I promised him that the boy looks nice and he will want to play with him cause who doesn't love a good game of chase. So Stanton gets the nerve up and asks him, and the boy kicks him. Stanton falls over and bonks heads with another girl and they both cry a whole bunch. So to make things better we take a trip to the Lego Store, and boy did it ever make things better!
They just happened to be having free Lego building contests and whoever could build the most Lego people in one minute got to keep them. After all the big kids went, we entered Stanton vs. Noelle.
Noelle made one in a minute and Stanton made two, so he got to keep them!
Then they had an adult contest, which I HAD to enter, on behalf of Noelle because she needed to win too. So, I went up against a middle aged Lego-lover. (I really wish I had a picture!)He stood confidently with his beard and his "Kiss Me I'm Irish" shirt. I was intimidated, but I had to win for Noelle. So, after saying I had never really played with Legos, he accused me of blasphemy and said "I was going down."
HE WAS WRONG!!!! I beat him, and I wasn't very humble about it either. I made four Lego people in one minute, and he only made three! In your face Beardy Lego guy! We left the Lego store, a family of winners, and Stanton said he was very much cheered up! He and Noelle are still talking about it! I have to admit it was SO FUN!
We also went on a leprachaun hunt this week, an idea we got when we visited Amy's fun pre-school last year. We followed it's tracks and found him and his gold and caught him in a paper bag. Then we read books about him and eventually released him up our chimney.
We also went camping this weekend. It was a beautiful spot, and pregnant camping is just as much fun as I'd remembered.

And of course, camping isn't camping without shooting "Storm Troopers" (soda cans) with our BB gun!
In other news, I got a staph infection, and we find out what our baby is tomorrow! Hooray!