Busy weekend. Beth had a baby shower to go to Saturday morning, while I stayed home to get the kids ready to go to Carson's 3rd birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's in Fort Wayne. We got to the party by about noon. Alex had a great time! It was the first time either he or I had been to one of those places (I was happy to see there was no ball crawl) and I probably would have loved it as much as he did had I also been 3. Ever try to keep a toddler from crawling up the skee-ball ramp when he/she (yes, Missy too) really really really wants to go up there? But they liked riding the rides and climbing the kiddie habitrail a lot too. Laura was coming to visit for the weekend and met us there after a couple hours. Her new boyfriend (met via e-Harmony.com) has a 9-year-old and has been to CEC before, many times, but he said that the Fort Wayne one was the nicest he had ever seen. Thomas seems like a good man. It's nice to see Laura dating an adult. He's also a sci-fi fan and plays fantasy football so I'm good with him all the way. We had another birthday party (Jacob's 1-year-old) in the church basement to visit before we all went out to dinner. Beth and I had heard good things about Stacy's Lounge in Leesburg so we decided to try it, but it was closed. I found out today that the owners close it the first 2 weeks of every year and go on vacation. So anyway, we went back to town and ate at Ruby Tuesday. Alex seems to have liked Thomas too; he has named his monkey backpack (the one with the leash) Thomas. We asked him if it was like the train Thomas, and he said "No, Auntie Laura's Thomas." He also thinks the fun place where Carson's birthday was is called Chucky Jesus.