Saturday, July 12, 2008

A Hurricane in Marbles

Today, our local children's museum, Marbles, held the opening of the Marbles Olympics and had Rod Brindamour there signing autographs for the kids. Joe really wanted to get Brindamour's autograph so we put on Lillian's Hurricane cheerleader outfit, gathered all our Hurricane junk and headed to the museum.

Lillian and I are usually there during the week so to see the crowd today was a bit much. As soon as we got in, we saw Stormy. Lillian was a bit hesitant at first so Joe had to hold her but then she warmed up and gave Stormy a hug:


After that Joe went and took his place in line while I followed Lillian around the play area. Joe called me when he was near the front of the line and asked me to bring Lillian over so it would look for legitimate (apparently the autographs were supposed to be just for the kids.) Lillian was not very happy that I tore her away from the glue in the craft area but we went.




There were a couple of cheerleaders that saw her and wanted to have a picture with her. Lillian was not into that and promptly fell onto the floor. Then one of the cheerleaders tried to grab her to pull her into them and Lillian started to cry. She does not like strange people (or even people she knows sometimes) trying to make her do something she does not want to. Eventually Joe held her and these are the two pictures we got:



We then took her upstairs for the Olympic displays and she quickly found her Olympic spirit on the gymnastics floor - does anyone else see a rhythm Olympic gymnast in the near future?