Tomorrow's Big Surprise

Tomorrow is Elias' birthday party, which has turned out to be much bigger than I expected. We are so excited that most of the kids in his class are able to come, plus some friends from outside of school and some adults who are family to us here. We are having the party at the indoor playground at church, which is like a McDonalds playground on steroids. Then we are doing pizza and cake in an open gathering area. Elias can't wait!
I can't either- but for a reason he knows nothing about....
A couple of nights ago I was putting an ad on craigslist.com about my murals and began browsing other catergories. Somehow I ended up looking at pianos and thought (once again, for the millionth time in the last couple of years) how wonderful it would be to have a piano for Elias. We do have a keyboard out that he loves to play. He began playing melodies of songs he knew at age 3 and has begun figuring out the "demo" songs on the keyboard now. So, Wednesday night, on a whim I placed an ad on craigslist. I pretty much said that I was looking for a piano for a talented, budding musician about to turn 5 years old. I got an email back THAT NIGHT from a lady 15 miles away who said she has a beautiful upright she would love for Elias to have. We went to see it last night and picked it up on Jean and Jerry's trailer today. It will stay on the trailer tonight and Jerry will bring it to the church tomorrow for the party. After all the gifts are opened we will tell Elias there is one more gift outside. We will walk him out and let him pull the sheet off and see his new piano!! We even got a big red bow to put on top. I honestly think that he is going to be do happy that he cries.
So, off to bed tonight to get rested up for the big celebration!