Friday

First Friday in our new house. Here's how it went.

- Kate woke up at 5:15. No idea why she's waking up so early. They went to bed a little late last night, too. Fortunately, some magic occurred where she actually went back to sleep. On her carpeted floor. Ultimately we all slept past 6, which is a big deal around these parts.

- Went down and made coffee. Set up the new DirecTV box in the playroom, much to the delight of the kids.

- Gave them breakfast. Cereal, raspberries. I know why Jack likes them so much, they're fantastic. As was the watermelon we had after dinner last night; like candy. Really amazing how good it was. Kate wasn't going to get any because she didn't eat much dinner. I told her to eat two pieces of hotdog and she'd get watermelon. Looking right at me, she slowly ate her two bites.

- We got dressed and went to "the baby playground." (The smaller of the two we can walk to.) Jack said he wanted to go to Bruce -- the one we have to drive to. Forget it, Jack. We walked the two and a half blocks with ease, then played on the swings and raced. Maybe Jack will be into track. I liked the idea of track, but I was never particularly fast.

- Came home and had snack bites on the front porch. Jack said, "Our first time sitting out on our front porch!" For lunch, macaroni and cheese. Kids inhaled it, as they usually do.

- Kate napped, Jack and I played superheroes. Basically we make his action figures fight. Scott and I used to do something similar.

- We played in the backyard for a bit. Got out Jack's toy golf clubs, balls. They kicked those around, we raced more.

- Had an apple snack on the front steps and colored with sidewalk chalk on the sidewalk. First time we've done that anywhere. It was nice.

- Lots of people walked by with dogs. Jack said, "It seems like a lot of people here have dogs. We need to get a dog."

- They raced more on the front porch. I cracked them up by talking in slow motion. "Reddddddddy.....Settttttttt......" Jack's first porch-length dash took 7 seconds by my count, his last only 1. But I was talking in slow motion, after all. At times he ran in slow motion, but not always.

- Emily came home. The Rosenfelds came over for gin and tonics, their girls played with Jack and Kate. We sat on the back deck and ate pizza.

- I carried the kids up the stairs and we got them into bed. Think they were exhausted.