Fun weekend!

We had a really nice weekend!  Paw Paw Mark and Cindy came to visit and so did Ronald McDonald!  And possibly best of all--ALEX GOT TO LEAVE THE HOSPITAL for the first time in 6 weeks!  Sunday was a beautiful day, and there was a really cool international children's festival going on in downtown St. Paul.  It was just over a mile away in a park with lots of statues of the Peanuts characters (Charles Schulz was from St. Paul--who knew?) so we walked to it.  Alex seemed happy enough just on the walk, and the children's festival turned out to be totally the type of thing she is in to.  There was a mariachi band, Indian dancing, a drum show, and tents with crafts.  But the highlight was a show called Swoon, with dancers from Australia who do their dance on very tall swaying poles.  We have been having a bit of a hard time getting Alex to eat decent meals at the hospital (after 6 weeks and a never-changing menu she is understandably very tired of hospital food) so we were pretty happy when she wolfed down a hot-dog at the fair.  And Isaac?  He slept the entire 3.5 hours we were gone!