After I got up and made the smoothies, I cut Cashel’s hair while Joe held him on his lap and we all enjoyed yet another viewing of Return of the Jedi.
Afterwards, Riesling painted in a coloring book, trying very hard to stay in the lines. She used a paper towel to wipe off any mistakes or excess. Cashel painted as well, but opted to mix all the colors resulting in a muddy green or brown spread randomly over each page. After lunch Riesling wrote down the alphabet, numbers and symbols needed for her font for her birthday card while I read Cashel Too Many Pears by Jackie French twice and then There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback twice. He wouldn’t go to sleep so he and Riesling dressed up, danced, and looked at books while I had a few minutes of quiet time. I heard rumor that there was going to be a show after dinner and saw costumes carefully packed into show boxes, but alas, Joe didn’t make it in for dinner, Cashel wouldn’t cooperate and we ran out of time. I will ask for a special viewing tomorrow.
After snack went outside where the kids rode their bikes around and Riesling climbed the oak tree to the second limb and no further. They also practiced crossing 17th Street safely while I watched. Then we went to the neighbor’s and the children jumped on their trampoline and ate the concord grapes growing near by (don’t worry, this didn’t happen simultaneously).
We came back home and cleaned up, had dinner, a bath and read books. Riesling chose Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes and Cashel chose Blue’s Cool Idea by K. Emily Hutta and Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott.
…on to Monday.
