Jan is in charge of Sunday dinner and he cooked for the first time in a month tonight. His menu included grape tomatoes and pink grapefruit juice. Angela looked over and noticed Bree squeezing tomatoes into the juice. “Bree, what are you doing?” she asked. Bree looked quizzically at Angela and explained very seriously (in a well-duh kind of voice), “It’s la-yu” (Chinese hot oil).
Anya uses the girls’ stamp collection to decorate the walls of a paper building to create a “Museum of Stamp Art”, complete with a museum guide, patrons, and a janitor.
First day of second grade for Liya.
First day of third grade for Anya.
Sabriya starts preschool! It’s a drop-off Montessori preschool, just ten minutes from our house. She’s happy that her friend, Jack, is also going there. She’s also glad she gets to bring Lambie with her.
Anya’s soccer team, the Chihuahuas, has its first game of the season.
This is how many of our Sunday night family meetings end, after we’ve all looked at the schedule for the coming week in Cozi: with Anya and Liya deciding that they want to change the colors that represent them on the Cozi calendar. This got so confusing for us that we had to lay down rules in which Daddy is always blue and Mommy is always green.
Anya and Liya spend the morning finding paper crafts from the Toymaker web site, printing them out on card stock, cutting them out, and then assembling them with tape. Our living room floor gets covered by paper toys.
Jan and the girls go out for lunch and a movie matinée and have a fun afternoon. The movie is, “Despicable Me”, which all three girls enjoy. It’s Bree’s first time seeing a movie in a theater, and she’s neither antsy nor unhappy about sitting in the dark. She and her sisters love the little yellow “minion” guys in the movie.
Liya joins us on a date night, as part of our running table manners game. She’s cleared the “blue square” intermediate level, so we take her to a rather nice restaurant, Place Pigalle, in Pike Place Market. She (and Angela!) are happy to have a reason to dress up. The cuisine is French, and leans to courses like rabbit or halibut, but Liya picks out an onion soup gratin and a pasta bolognese, and she ends up liking both.
She’s also pretty happy sharing Jan’s pot de crème dessert. Her behavior at the table is impeccable up until the very minute we’re signing the check, when she starts to get silly. The waiter laughs and says, “Here comes the crazy!”
Anya does stuff on Angela’s laptop for the first time. We’re going to get used to this scene…
Our fairy ballerina
Liya reading with her kindergarten buddy, Katherine. It wasn’t too long ago that it Liya who was in kindergarten, reading with her second-grade buddy.