Yesterday I took the children to the airport.  It was a Christopher-designed celebration for his learning his Bible memory verses in his long-term memory.  We took the R1 train down to the airport, and visited each terminal, especially the B terminal, where we like to look at the different floors in the Marriott.  They have a great view of the airfields from the higher floors.   We ate at the Eurocafe in the international terminal, and the kids really liked the circular benches they have there.   We visited every terminal, bumming rides off the economy parking shuttles to get from place to place (for Mommy's sake).  A very important part of the trip was to take the R2 back to 30th Street Station.  Christopher was somewhat disappointed to find that the R2 train is really the R1 train, it's just that the return trip goes to Warminster, so it's called the R2.  He took it in stride, and we all had a lovely day.  Now Natalie wants some trips to celebrate her memory work, too.  Hmmmm.....

The kids and I dropped off two saxophone ligatures at John's colleague's office for our friend, Dr. Oathokwa in Botswana, whose son plays sax and cannot acquire one easily there.  Thank-you to Judy and Heather for being so kind to manage this for me.

We've had a productive and quiet day today.  By the time we finished gymnastics class, I was really exhausted and having harder contractions.  I just laid on the couch for almost two hours while the kids had snack, a piano lesson, and played nicely together for all that time.  This is when I feel like all that hard work in improving patience and consistency is worthwhile.  I do hope I will not have to go on bedrest--so far the doc says we're good.  My mom is after me to go for a second check up tomorrow because the contractions are getting harder.   I really don't want to, because we have the party to prepare for on Saturday, and I still have to pull some things together for Father's Day---(: (: (:  I think I'll take it easy and see how I do tomorrow.