Day off

Today the kids were off. I had to work. There were ups and downs.

In the morning, while I worked, they played a game called wanderers. They put together backpacks and filled them with play food, books, blankets, and sleeping toys. Then they spread everything out and ate, read, and slept. We might call it camping without the tent.

We went to Burger King for lunch. They looked around for the toys they would get, which weren't on display. We got our food, relaxed in a booth, ate. The burgers are better than McDonalds, the fries aren't as good. They ate everything, and we heard We Are Young on the way home.

We played in the backyard. They briefly climbed into the treehouse to play with the BK toys, then Jack and I played football. We have been working on our timing on pass routes - shed, bush, swing set, tree. I think that in a movie, one day we would need these skills to defuse a bomb or something. "Jack, shed!" I would say, and he would run the correct route. Anyway. We have been practicing.

They drew colorful pumpkins on printouts Kate had brought home. They were similar and I am not sure who copied whom, or if it was just coincidence. Kate also drew a family of cats.

Jack and I watched an Avengers cartoon. To my surprise, he got out his ukulele and played it for the first time in months.

We went out for pizza.

Kate cut her thumb on something. Jack ran to tell me about it "gushing blood." There was a drop, yes. Emily told me at bedtime Kate lamented having not cut her other thumb instead, because the bandaged one is the one she sucks when she goes to sleep. Sad but also funny.

I wrote this blog, and went to bed.