Today has been a good day. The boys let me sleep in, the weather is cool enough to warrant me wearing a sweater, and we went for a jaunt into Media (Everybody’s Hometown), which is a fun little town with tons of cool artsy shops and a new bead shop, too. There’s a trolley that runs through the center of the main street (and I wish I had though to take the trolley in from our town, cause the boys would have loved it, but I realized it too late!) And the best pizza place around (Little Anothony’s for anyone close enough to ever visit.) I had a slice of roasted pepper, broccoli rabe and kalamata olive pizza for lunch.

Anyway, we were on a mission to make a necklace for Gigi (my absolutely awesome mother in law, the boy’s beloved “Georgeous Grandma”, thus the moniker “GiGi”). Anyway, here’s what the boys created (and I finished when they got bored) for her birthday celebration tomorrow. GiGi and Pop-pop are taking them to the Zoo for the day, so I get a whole afternoon to myself. I’m practically gasping at the thought!

Plus, I got to chatting with the owner and mentioned that I’d love to teach a beaded knitting class, and she seemed very interested and offered class space in November! I told her I was thinking more along the lines of early spring after the babe’s born, but I’m pretty excited at developing the class. I think I might be able to rent their classroom space when it’s not in use for knitting classes, as well. Wahoo!!

So, of course I bought some more beads for stitch markers. I got the most adorable silver little turtle charms, and some beautiful butterflies as well. Here’s the turtle ones:

We ran into my friend Mindy in town, and she posed in this pic with the boys. I think little Ethan with that big head is hysterical!

And yes, that’s AJ trying to scratch Mindy’s eyes out with the freaky Freddie hand!