Busy day

Today was a full day,mwhich for Emily and Kate culminated in a classmate's birthday party, and for Jack and me ended with a burger at his favorite eating place -- he's positively rhapsodic about it -- Elevation Burger. Seriously, as we approached it in the parking lot, he was like, "smell that? No, really smell the air. It's the French fries."

So as we were eating our burgers, I said, so Jack, what was the favorite part of your day?

And he said, "Definitely decorating the tree. No -- the snowball fight at the breakfast with Santa. (styrofoam snowballs, we don't have snow yet.) no, watching the "Avengers" show. No, this burger. No, playing with beyblades."

He took another bite of his burger. "I think it was the whole day."

I took Kate to ballet today. Parents don't get to watch, they just sit outside talking, or with their faces in a book or phone or whatever. So I was reading a book when Kate bounced giddily out of class with a "Booo!" And chattered away about "we did THIS and THAT and put our hands together to make a flower and we danced to that song you like and it's my favorite...."

All that and I almost forgot to mention that during breakfast Emily played The Nutcracker, which Jack's class had just seen a version of, and he marched around the kitchen and showed how the guy did this with the sword, and then the mouse sowed up, and the soldiers, and there was Kate saying "da da da da da, da da DA! Da da da da da da, da da DA!" over and over again.