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Yesterday Sarah slept until 10:30. When she got up the first thing she wanted to do, after a long snuggle and some Cheerios, was sit in the recliner with the messager going and have me read "Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One" to her. She's a girl who likes to keep up with tradition.
Under the weather circumstances, we thought we would stay cool in a movie theater for a couple of hours before we picked up Charlotte from her last day of acting camp. So we ran down the street to the Uptown Theater to see the penguin movie, which we both thought was pretty depressing when you think about it. Basically, we decided we were just glad we weren't penguins. We froze in the theater and then got immediately cooked when we walked out. And the car was so hot we had to stop halfway to Imagination Stage and get another cold drink.
After we picked up Charlotte we stopped at Safeway and then came home where the big plan was to give the American girl dolls a birthday party as they were turning 14 that day, both of them. S and C planned a picnic supper to be held on the livingroom coffee table, which was really the teen-age game room of the boardinag school Kaylie and Molly attend. Charlotte had to run home to get the picnic hamper and while the caterer, me, packed the supper, Charlotte and Sarah set the table and dressed "the girls" for their party. It was all quite posh. In any event, Sarah and Charlotte ate well: chicken, bread and butter, carrot sticks, watermelon, yogurt and fruitbars for desert, by which time they were ready for the first two chapters of "The King's Equal."
While the girls and their "foster children" were having their picnic supper, Jim and I ate as usual at the dining room table and listened to the little girl chatter, which just cracks us up. We've nicknamed them "Fruit" (Sarah) and "Loop" (Charlotte) because they are so goofy. Of course, periodically, they had to have a couple rounds of The Banana Sticker Game with Uncle Jim which entails much teasing and running and hiding and pretend scariness. Uncle Jim tried to vary the fun and slow things down a little at one point by showing them some Homer Simpson sound effects on the computer, but they both emphatically declared them to be "NOT funny" so he gave that up.
Finally, about 8, Carey called us to come pick her up from the Van Ness subway station so I sent them over to Anja's, and Jim and I went to pick her up. S and C were starting to get a little cranky with each other, so it's good that Carey is back so she could sleep with Sarah last night and Charlotte at her own house. I hope they both sleep long and hard because I don't want little cranky girls on our hands today.
In other news, our friend Stephanie has updated Florin's weblog and everyone is doing fine. Florin is over 6 pounds now! And there are some new photos. Check it out: http://www.florincecily.blogspot.com/
Under the weather circumstances, we thought we would stay cool in a movie theater for a couple of hours before we picked up Charlotte from her last day of acting camp. So we ran down the street to the Uptown Theater to see the penguin movie, which we both thought was pretty depressing when you think about it. Basically, we decided we were just glad we weren't penguins. We froze in the theater and then got immediately cooked when we walked out. And the car was so hot we had to stop halfway to Imagination Stage and get another cold drink.
After we picked up Charlotte we stopped at Safeway and then came home where the big plan was to give the American girl dolls a birthday party as they were turning 14 that day, both of them. S and C planned a picnic supper to be held on the livingroom coffee table, which was really the teen-age game room of the boardinag school Kaylie and Molly attend. Charlotte had to run home to get the picnic hamper and while the caterer, me, packed the supper, Charlotte and Sarah set the table and dressed "the girls" for their party. It was all quite posh. In any event, Sarah and Charlotte ate well: chicken, bread and butter, carrot sticks, watermelon, yogurt and fruitbars for desert, by which time they were ready for the first two chapters of "The King's Equal."
While the girls and their "foster children" were having their picnic supper, Jim and I ate as usual at the dining room table and listened to the little girl chatter, which just cracks us up. We've nicknamed them "Fruit" (Sarah) and "Loop" (Charlotte) because they are so goofy. Of course, periodically, they had to have a couple rounds of The Banana Sticker Game with Uncle Jim which entails much teasing and running and hiding and pretend scariness. Uncle Jim tried to vary the fun and slow things down a little at one point by showing them some Homer Simpson sound effects on the computer, but they both emphatically declared them to be "NOT funny" so he gave that up.
Finally, about 8, Carey called us to come pick her up from the Van Ness subway station so I sent them over to Anja's, and Jim and I went to pick her up. S and C were starting to get a little cranky with each other, so it's good that Carey is back so she could sleep with Sarah last night and Charlotte at her own house. I hope they both sleep long and hard because I don't want little cranky girls on our hands today.
In other news, our friend Stephanie has updated Florin's weblog and everyone is doing fine. Florin is over 6 pounds now! And there are some new photos. Check it out: http://www.florincecily.blogspot.com/
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