Madison's magnificent...

month-long birthday extravaganza is finally over. It started on Sep 11 her actual birthday with lunch at her school and a small party and ended this past Saturday with a party for her friends and cousins of like age. Note to Gigi: no horns at kiddie parties. They all played in a gym with a bunch of gymnastics stuff. I think they had a good time. It looked that way anyway. They kept the parents in a parental Siberia. Your child only observable through a thick pane of glass while they traverse across a 3 inch wide piece of wood suspended 2 feet above the ground or as they bounce on the most dangerous toy ever devised by man, the trampoline. That seemed to please all of the mothers.

Cup cakes and ice cream were served. Everyone received a goody bag and paint on their face. That was interesting. We actually stood the kids in a circle and threw buckets of paint at them. They really loved that. Mothers again, not so much.

As Madison gets older she sure is getting wiser. I was talking with her the other day and something came on TV about 9-11. She asked what happened. So I told her some bad men killed some people in a building a long time ago.

"Why?"

"Because they don't like us."

"Why?"

"They don't like the way we think. Their religion tells them not to like people who aren't like them."

"Do they believe in God?"

"Yes"

"If they believe in God, how can they be bad?"

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