Wicked Fun

Well 2015 is off to a great start. This last week has been full of Birthday celebrations for Andi. Sunday we had a family dinner and celebrated with both families. She's known for a while that she wasn't having a friend party this year because we had something big planned for her. So Sunday we finally told her and she was so excited.

Yep, tickets to see Wicked. This picture is blurry, but for good reason. We sang happy birthday and Peter sat nicely on the bar stool, but the moment the song ended he was on the counter and blew out the candles before the girls could get to them. 

So Thursday after school we drove down to LA for the show. I was looking forward to taking Andi out to a grown up restaurant, but instead we ended up at Denny's. And this is how we felt about it.

 Thad and Andi share a love of pancakes, so I was out voted. So much for a big grown up night out on the town. But the show more than made up for the "dinner".  The pantages is such a cool old theater. Our seats were front and center Balcony, which we think is the best spot in the house.

I was a little worried that Andi would not be able to stay awake through the show because it started at bedtime. We are pretty serious about bedtime around here, so Andi was pretty shocked that we were staying out that late. But she loved it. She's been listening to the music for months, and was completely enthralled. The only little issue we had was when Fiero an Elpheba start kissing and she asked me if they were married. When I said no she yelled, "eeewwww, gross, they can't do that!" Luckily it was loud enough that the people sitting next to her weren't bothered.
Andi also went birthday shopping with Grandma and picked out a fishing pole. She may love wicked, but she's still her Daddy's girl.

 We lost a "pet" this week. The little silkie chick Sammy brought home in August decided this week that it was a rooster. Luckily there is a place in town that will take roosters and we were able to return Midnight, instead of "dispose" of him. Sammy was very sad to see him go, but day 3 of the noise, he understood why we had to get rid of him.

And this is just a perfect demonstration of daily life with Peter. I rakes the leaves into a pile, and he followed behind me raking them back out. It's like this all day, every day, like his sole purpose in life is to hinder and destroy. It's a good thing he's cute.

And thing one and thing two here are at each other constantly. They wrestle and rough house and pester each other from the minute they wake up till they go to bed each day. I thought a 4 year age gap would keep that from happening, but it hasn't. This was a rare moment of peace brought to you by Phineas and Ferb.