Little Drummer Boy Parade

A few weeks back For King and Country had an outdoor concert at a drive-in theatre here in town.  We opted to go because they used cars as barriers to the different groups and it was outside.  We also couldn't pass up the price of admission for one car when we have a van full of For King and Country fans. 

During the set the band did NOT play the song the twins wanted to hear.  M and Big E brought their drums to play along with "The Little Drummer Boy" as it is their favorite song ever.  I mean, they know the different version by the first drum kick and request the song by version.  (Yes, they did that this morning as we were finishing breakfast.) Anyway, when the stage went dark M (being a good 3.5 year old) just collapsed.  He had held out hope ALL SHOW LONG that the band was going to play his song.  Then, ENCORE!! The band was playing his song.  He strapped up his drum and went for a walk.  There was plenty of space between everyone and he and E started drumming on their toy drums with the band.  It was fantastic.  Several other little kids kind of joined in so they had a sort of parade going down the aisles.  GMan tried desperately to stop them, but the twins did it anyway.  I didn't take pictures because I was both laughing and apologizing for the interruption.  No one thought it was an interruption though and instead Chris said you could hear people pointing at "The cutest thing ever" as the parade wound by their vehicle.  It was fun, something that could only have happened outside, and a great bit of fun for M.  Here are a few pictures of the drummers before the concert really got going. 

Blackberries!

It is that time of year. The time when M turns himself black with blackberries.  Our own blackberries were done before 4th of July, but now we've got some from our CSA.  M & Big E go with me every week to pick up veggies just to get the blackberries.  M will even tell the other kids that the "blackberries aren't any good" simply so that he gets a few more.  He eats them the first day or so then decides that I need to turn them into blackberry jam which he then eats with a spoon.  Here is M super excited about having a black tongue from the blackberries.  He was upset when it started to fade, so he ate more jam.

Not a lot has been happening here though.  We are starting to have restrictions re-instated so that's been interesting.   

School has been ramping up. We are on to the next great adventure of homeschooling.  The bigs picked the homeschool curriculum last spring after we tried a couple during the school shut down.  Now we are fully on board with the program and ready for the group to meet the end of August.  As it is the end of July that doesn't seem so far away all of a sudden.  Schools here just announced that 1st quarter will be mainly done online so the kids are happy with their decision.  Chris is both excited and a bit scared, but that's to be expected with any new adventure like this.  Hopefully we can find some poor soul to help us with piano.