Weekend Update

We started the weekend off by catching the opening of Golden Compass. This is the New Line Cinema release that Mike is spearheading. Amazingly he's stated that the DVD is pretty much complete! We made an evening of it by meeting up at Gus and Velvet's for drinks. Unfortunately Maria was feeling under the weather and stayed in for the night. We took in a leisurely walk from the house to the Century City Mall. Strolled up to the food court and gobbled up a little dinner before catching the 9:55 show. The movie was a grand experience, I truly enjoyed myself, but to be completely honest felt a little let down by the ending. Art direction on the other hand cannot be criticized in any way. It was magnificent to watch.


We ended up going back to Gus and Velvet's for coffee and dessert and finally left their place close to 2? I don't even remember. Kenny drove us back to his mom's and we ended up crashing in the spare bedroom, rather than risk crashing into a pole. The next day we awoke to the boys, okay, Rhys jumping around. This is the first time in his life that he has slept in another house without the knowledge that either Ken or I were present. And he did pretty well. Angele said that he woke up around 3a and marched around looking for me. Once he was not able to find a trace of us he went back into her room and under the covers. We left a little after breakfast to run errands and get ready for the Family Mass and Dinner the Second Grade class was holding at Henry's school.

After a full day of running around doing errands which included a picnic lunch at the park Rhys was knocked out! So by the time we pulled into the parking lot at school he had been napping for about 20 minutes. We were there early because I volunteered Kenny to help set up for the mass which was set to take place in the auditorium since there was already a regularly scheduled mass in the church. Rhys slept close to two hours before completely waking up.


I waited as long as I could, hoping that mass was over before I suggested to Rhys that we should go into the auditorium. Just prior to entering I reminded him for the second time that we had to be very quiet and be on our best behavior. And he was! We entered through the doors and found Kenny in the front row, and the kids from Henry's class seated on the floor in front of the impromptu altar. One of the boys was so excited to see Rhys he started talking to him all the while Monsignor was saying mass! Rhys responded by turning to the boy and saying "SHHhhh!" Boy, was I impressed!


On Sunday Henry was invited to a birthday party for his classmate. We all had a very nice time socializing with his friends and their parents. Both Henry and Rhys enjoyed themselves immensely and Rhys was really very well behaved.