Nathaniel Day 12 - a Play and Dinner

You can read about the idea behind Nathaniel Day and the activities of previous months here (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).

This month for Nathaniel Day Abby and I went to go see some kids from church perform in the play hairspray. We had a good time. Abby was very excited when she saw the kids on stage. "He goes to my church!" She said the play was "like the Wiggles" with the singing and dancing. For some reason she didn't take her coat or hat off the entire hour and a half play and only took her mittens off at the end.

We spent the afternoon doing a little prep work for the birthday party. Abby helped wash all the strawberries, cut some cheese, and put crackers in a bowl.





After the party prep we (maybe just I) took a nap for a while until Dave came home.

Dave had made dinner reservations for us at Buca di Bepo, a fun Italian restaurant not too far from us. It was Abby's first time there. She was convinced they had macaroni and cheese. We weren't so sure, but she was right. They had it on the kid's menu. We all had lots of delicious food and even decided to get some cheesecake for dessert since we were celebrating Nathaniel's birthday. It was gigantic. All three of us shared it and we still brought half home.

Abby's kid's mac n cheese.

Our dinner: Chicken with artichokes and bacon with lemon sauce. 

The other half of our dinner: four different filled pastas