Spring Vacation, Day 1

It's Spring Break, so I'm going to try to blog every day. Today was a good day. Weather indicated this would be the nicest day of the week, so I knew the plan would be to be outside.

First thing in the morning, I had both kids make a list of everything they wanted to do this week. They collaborated on it, which was nice; no need to read "McDonald's" and "Dunkin' Donuts" on multiple lists. Their list was pretty good, including the expected (TV) and unexpected (Easter projects). Looked good; I am sure we will end up doing many of them.

While I did some work, they played together quite nicely. This morning's game was "Stuffed Animal Rodeo," during which their various stuffed toys were timed riding on Zoomer, the battery-operated robot dog. No, I am not making this up. The monkey won. Of course.

Today we started at Bruce Park. It's a nice playground in Greenwich which we used to go to semi-regularly (when we lived in Connecticut) and I think have gone to every spring break since Jack started school. It's a tradition, and we like those around here. They immediately climbed the rock wall, and the climbing tower, and the hoopy thing -- I believe that is the official name -- and stuff that was difficult for Jack a year ago wasn't, and stuff that Kate couldn't do a year ago she did with effort. Stuff she didn't try then, she managed to do now. They had a blast on the swing chairs, and the slides, and the rock walls, smiling genuine proud,happy smiles for the camera.

When they tired of that, or couldn't put off their McDonald's craving any longer, we went there. We sat and ate their unhealthy food with lots of ketchup. Some little girl stood up and shouted instructions to her Dad across the restaurant. I evidently cringed because Kate looked at me and said, "She must have never been in a restaurant before!"

Jack had an afternoon play date at a friend's house,,so Kate and I took her bike out for a spin, which ended at yet another playground. Pushed her on the swing, helped her ride, watched her climb trees. Just a nice sunny afternoon.

Back at home, Emmy came back from work and we/they played baseball in the yard. Kate is working on her skills, Jack just likes to play. And that was our day.