Day with Kate

Kate is done with camp, but Jack's lasts two more weeks. So Kate and I are doing our own thing; here was today.

- - Drop Jack off at camp. Kate wore a ballerina skirt and slippers and the leggings part of her Olivia dress-up outfit, so it is just as well that she doesn't have to get out of the car. "Bye Jack!" she yells.


- - We drive home and Kate goes off to find the stuffed monkey she and Jack are calling "dark chocolate." I don't ask.  I hear her playing with her dolls, which is pretty cute: she speaks for them in this high, airy voice. The stories usually involve somebody being put in jail and then rescued or whatnot. I am not sure how the monkey figures into it but I like to think she is reenacting King Kong or something.


- - We go to the grocery store. Kate has certain staples of these trips. We go to the deli for meat where she wants to try slices of ham or turkey, and then chooses peanut butter and jelly anyway when we get home. She likes to say hi to the lobsters, who for all she knows are grocery store pets I suppose. She likes to pick out her yogurt, and usually wants eight different kinds of cereal which I honestly believe she picks based on either the color of the box or how cute the animal is. So if you ever wonder why cereal doesn't come in brown boxes with cartoon warthogs on them, now you know.


- - We visit with the neighbors' kids who are slightly younger. The three of them ride tricycles and scooters in circles around the driveway. Golf clubs come out eventually and I get Kate home before someone gets brained.


- - We have lunch. Kate eats a sandwich, yogurt, chips, grapes, juice box, milk, water, cheese stick, and some pea pods. Lunch is Kate's big meal, especially since we cut out second breakfast.


- - We ride Kate's bike, well, she does, and I run or walk fast behind her. Sometime she sings, sometimes not. Today she didn't sing but did ring her new bell. A lot.


- - Read a book, "Backyardigans: A Merry Fair." The TV show is better, but she is learning to read and we are going with "ready to read" books for her. She does pretty well, and when we finish a page, I congratulate her, and she cackles with pride. She really does kind of cackle.


- - We pick up Jack and I try to ask about his day while Kate babbles away about her day. Our day.