William's vacation, Day 3

Wednesday. 

1 month and 10 days late. Today will be exciting! But about that later.

The day started out well with a fat envelope being delivered for William. His Mom had ordered a book for him. William is an avid reader. Of course that needs to be encouraged. Our library didn't have the book he is currently "into". They can't be visited right now. Only curbside pickup. What did we do before Amazon?

Omi had bought herself a new toy, a digital microscope. It connects with the iPhone or computer and can magnify 1000x. It came just before William arrived and I had no time to play with it but managed to download the necessary app and found out how to turn it on. 

I had found a dead fly and asked William whether he wanted to find out with me how the new toy works. We had a grand time with it. We should have moved into an area where there was better light but here are just two of the photos we took. There is potential. 

There was still time before lunch and James took William to Meadow Farm Park again. There is that huge grass area in the middle. William had brought his bike too and we had never seen him ride it. Ben had just recently taught him how to do it.

VIDEO     (0:18)     So proud of him being willing to give it a try.

The pre-virus plan had been that William visits us shortly after his birthday. We had hired the Magician/Juggler Jonathan as a birthday treat and the event should have taken place at our church because William knows some of our friends there.

Plan B: Sarah and Wade volunteered their place with social distancing in mind of course. It started at 5pm. Sarah invited a few of her friends but it was not really a party because no food or drink was offered. She designated 5 different areas for the 5 families besides us with space in-between. They came with blankets or camping chairs and everybody had a grand time. 

I had not expected Jonathan the Magician to call William forward but was very pleasantly surprised how comfortable William was with it. He was a very good sport.

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More videos:

Juggling with fire     (0:33)

On uni-cycle     (from Sarah 0:55)

At the end William was called up again. This time because he was the guest of honor. He was turned into a rabbit. VIDEO!     (1:00)

And it led right into the last act. Caleb, Colin and Owen were waiting for it because they remembered it from Caleb's 5th birthday party.

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Yes, it was the highlight again. 

After everybody was gone we had dinner.

And then we went for a little walk in the neighborhood. William was eager to use Caleb's bicycle which is a little larger than his. He did a great job.

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Back to the house for "special" dessert:

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Time to go home. William and Caleb were very excited because Caleb was spending the night with us. The boys were so cute. It did take a little while to settle them though. 

Altogether another wonderful day.