Friday today

A lot happened today.

- We met with Jack's teacher for Parent-Teacher conference. She said he's smart, bright, funny, competitive, kind, likes everyone, and is well-liked. After the meeting we met up with him in the auditorium, where he was waiting with his class, and hugged him goodbye, until I'd pick him up later.

- At the meeting, Kate sat at a desk and on paper we'd brought drew little pictures of faces. As she finished each one, she ran over to us with it, then ran back to draw another one.

- Kate and I went to the grocery store. She helped by pushing the cart, by which I mean hanging on it with her hands and letting her feet dangle. She was disappointed that the deli guy didn't give us a piece of turkey to taste.

- We read a book together, from Aunt Linda, where you make different faces by turning flaps of the book. She was really into it, it was nice to see her talk about each different page.

- We had lunch, she napped, I painted.

- I woke her up and we went to get Jack. She was groggy or cranky (not much difference) and clung to me the whole time. Jack was red-cheeked but happy looking; it was windy and a little cold.

- At home, we played football in the yard for about half an hour. We threw the football around, and when I had it both of them tackled me around the legs. Whenever Jack got the ball he talked about "and it's an interception! and Percy Harvin takes it in for a touchdown!" He's still learning the difference between offensive and defensive players.

- They had their apple and Pirate's Booty snack, then tried to recreated Backyardigan World, a big lego block world they built last year and put the stuffed Backyardigan characters all over. It showed up on the calendar this month. I noticed Jack bringing all the Legos up to the kitchen from the playroom. Um...what are you doing? I asked. Jack said, "We have to look at the picture." Of course.

- Kate ran by, heading upstairs. Where are you going? I asked. "I need to get something," she explained. Of course: her Backyardigans.

- They drew pictures. Jack drew all the NFL team names and logos he could think of. He asked me for some spellings, and I gave him them, and then I told him he could try on his own. I liked his spelling of Seahawks in particular: SEWHOKS.

- Kate drew a picture of a face, with squiggly hair, and the letter she knows how to draw: P. All over the page. She brought it to me and said, "You can keep it if you WANT to." There's only one answer.

- Emily came home, having picked up Kate's preschool formal pictures. Stunning. She's become a little girl almost overnight, it seems.

- We made pizzas for dinner. I shaped Jack's like Scooby-Doo, as requested, and Kate's like a kitty. Kind of. Hers looked like a sock and his looked like an alien or something. They covered them with cheese, and ate a whole lot of cheese and a whole lot of tomatoes.

- They ate. "I eat my whole dinner!" Kate said, as she took about her third bite. Great, Kate. "I'm going to eat my whole dinner," she said again. She didn't, but she did OK.

- They ran around the playroom throwing the toy football against the wall and jumping onto the futon. Over and over.

- I started reading Kate's book, What the Ladybird Heard, while she was still dawdling with her teeth getting brushed. She heard, and got serious. "Oh! Daddy is reading. Without me! Daddy, wait." She ran in. "You forgot ME," she said. Nope, I couldn't.

- Jack came down to say another good night.

Just another Friday today.