Day 7!

Picked up Jack at school. As usual, he had another kid locked at his elbow. "Can we have a playdate?" Today it was Dylan, and I said I'd talked with Dylan's Mom and they were going to have a playdate on Friday. They both said, "Oh," and ran off to the playground. A few minutes later, Jack came back, with his friend Brian. I also saw Brian's Mom. "Can we have a playdate?"They asked in unison. His Mom said, today wasn't good, but they could do a future day, maybe Saturday? I said that was fine. Jack went looking for Dylan again.

We headed back from school. I asked Jack how his day was. "Grreaaatttt!" he said. It didn't really sound like Tony the Tiger or anything. I said, what was the best part. He said, "All of it." OK then.

At home, we played with Laney for a bit. Jack likes to run around with her chasing him; they did that for a while. Then he gets tired, or at least tired of running, and she continues to want to play, so he asks me to put her back on her leash.

He makes two amazing dinosaurs out of K'Next pieces, which are sort of like super Legos or something. He carefully places them in his room so they won't get destroyed by one of the two members of our household under the age of 4.

We play football. I kind of win, 30-29, but let him tie it up with a final catch. We high-five and then he insists we shake and say good game. So we do.

We go and get Kate. As we peer into the "tumble room" at preschool, we see her standing on a gymnastics mat facing one of the other kids, lifting a knee up in the air. Crane technique? She looks at us, smiles, and runs over. I make the same pose. She wants to hug me, but Jack steps into her path and embraces her. She is one part happy and one part annoyed. "Jack!" Then: "Daddy!"

We go home and run around the backyard more with Laney. Kate wants to do it, but shrieks when Laney runs in her direction. Sigh. Later, though, she bravely petted her, and said a tender goodnight through the bars of her crate. Laney's, that is.

I read Jack his dragon book from Mikey. I'm not sure he's really following it (nor am I, since I only get to read every other chapter; Emily is reading him the alternating ones), but he likes it if for no other reason than his cousin sent it to him.