Pullen Park is cool

I haven't been to Pullen Park in years until today, and I've never been with a small child ever. It is just plain cool. Meredith and I went to Sunday School and church today (not quite as successful as last week since she would NOT stay in the nursery during the service) and then we met Chris at Pullen Park for a Bojangles picnic and lots of fun playing! The playground isn't quite as great as some of the other local parks, but the other amenities totally makeup for that. We rode the carousel and Meredith wasn't digging getting on a horse, so we rode in the bench seat section, but she still thought it was pretty awesome and I think she'll be ready for the horse next time (that thing really moves, I even got a little dizzy!) Then she did the boats, which she liked at first then got a little apprehensive about toward the end, and then we all rode the train and she loved that too. The slides were the favorite part of the playground and she was nice and worn out by the time we left, fell asleep in the car and took a nice long nap this afternoon. Anyhoo, we'll definitely be back :)

We had some friends over to watch the UNC/VT game yesterday, which was lots of fun (except for the outcome of the game!). Meredith was really excited about having a friend to play with, but it seems that Emma has outgrown playing with 2 year olds since we saw her last and poor Meredith was sad a lot of the time that Emma was ignoring her. I felt really bad for her, but you can't make kids play together and I suppose that 6 year old isn't really all that interested in a 2 year old. They did ok toward the end of the evening, but it took a long time and hearing lots of 'she keeps pushing me' etc (Meredith literally wanted to touch her all the time because she thought Emma was so cool), and Emma would run away from Meredith and so on and so on. Still a great time, but it's hard to see your baby feeling left out :(

On another note, today's adult Sunday School had an immigration lawyer come and talk about how difficult it is to gain legal status in this country. I knew it was difficult, but this really opened my eyes to how hard it really is and why there are so many illegal people here and how upstanding families are just torn apart because local law enforcement can now act as immigration officials, deporting people right and left....so much for family values. There was a lot more to it, but that is my soapbox for now...point is that immigration law really needs to be revamped, big time.