Monday, January 14, 2013

Evening with Kate

Jack had baseball practice this evening, and Emily was at work, so I hung out with Kate. I realized that I do t often spend a lot of time alone with Kate, especially evenings. If Jack has an activity, I usually take him, or else they're both here. Something I need to work on, I think, in part because she's a lot of fun.

We had brinner, breakfast for dinner, which generally means Kate eats a lot. So four scrambled eggs, an English muffin, a yogurt, a piece of banana bread, half a red pepper, and various other foods later, she was done eating. As we ate (I had been planning on splitting those eggs with her...nope), we listened to Taylor Swift and occasionally she sang along and talked about her day. "For snack I had my apple, and I think Anna stole my Cheetos. And then I went back and I looked for them and they weren't there. I looked under my bag and Brooke's bag and...." (the upshot was that her Cheetos disappeared at some point, so I told her to make sure she zipped up her lunch box when she ate snack.) anyway, she didn't seem terribly upset about the whole thing.

After dinner I cleaned up while she looked at our photo album from around our wedding, which we dug out recently for some reason. "Daddy, you look nice!....in this picture only you and Lucky are smiling, but in this one you all have nice smiles..... That's great that his name is Lucky, he must be lucky....oh is this your wedding picture? No, you aren't dressed up nice....but you have a shirt with a wedding picture on it...and so does Mommy! ...why do have birds on your floor? What's a patio? Oh, the birds are so cute! Ooh, thats a nice dress Mommy has." (laughter) "DADDY! I see your belly button!" (more laughter) "We didn't see turtles at the beach! You were so lucky!....Ooh, those flowers are so pretty!"

It pretty much went on like this for a while. She flipped through all the pictures, laughing and talking cheerfully. Then we went and watched "Diners, drive-ins, and dives," and I wished i had more food than a piece of reheated pizza for dinner. But the company was great.

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