the all day date

Well, Rose has had quite a week-end. Yesterday, she had an all day date with Miriam and Ariana.

We started with Tot Shabbat which went very well. David still refuses to get on the floor for bim bam. I have no idea why. Rose was disappointed the two year old she has befriended wasn’t there, but she did get to actually hold the Torah. David managed to wait until after the blessing before he drank his grape juice.

Then off to the park. I left the kids with my sister and family and went to dance class. Yee ha!

They all had lunch together and I left dance class early in order to meet David at my house and get him down for naptime.

Rose went with Julia and family to see Horton Hears a Hoo. Too scary. As we might have expected. G doesn’t really mean five year old safe. Rose has seen Lion King at home which has some pretty scary parts, but we can stop the movie and talk through them.

Then were they on their way home? Oh no, they went over to the eastside for ice cream and playing at another friend’s house. (There is a long complicated explanation for all this involving a mother in the hospital with peumonia, a missed birthday party, and a support network spread over the city.)

Rose got home at five, exhausted. I spent the next hour reading her stories and cuddling with her. Then I left her and David with mom and went dancing. Yee ha!

the all day date again

Eight hours with Miriam and Ariana in one week-end was just not enough. We had to do it again today.

Dan, my brother-in-law, took the girls to Sunday School, then dropped them back at our house for lunch. He went home. They played and played and played.

First, they designed a cool art project which involved coloring over pieces of tape and jamming the pens onto the paper. They put pencils in their socks and rode them like ice skates. They dismantled the basketball hoop. They put on a show: the waitress, the princess, and the princess’ mother. The show involved a lot of strumming on the ukulele. I particularly liked the part where the waitress sang about how much she loved the princess and then the princess and her mother sang Happy Birthday to the waitress. They got out the doctor kit and played ill on the couch. I’m sure there were many other games that I wasn’t privy to since they did 90% of this independently.

John got lunch into them. I got snack into them. John and I got dinner going and the parents rejoined us.

Then there were puzzles and stories and trying to wish Grammy and Grandpa Joe a happy Easter through the start of the melt downs, and finally David and Ariana had a nice bath together.

I’m sure everyone’s going to go through withdrawal when school starts up tomorrow.