sunrise

• Holy sunrise this morning!
• Jane, Katie, and George, we sat in the living room and enjoyed it.  Daddy and Lila were still snoozing away.  It's a shame they missed it.
• Lila, I love finding your random drawings and printing everywhere.  You're super proud that you figured out how to spell butt all by yourself.  When Keegan was here, she taught you how to draw a cat.  You're pretty good at it!
• Jane, you still weren't feeling well this morning, so you stayed home from school.  We played a friendly game of Bananagrams before breakfast.  You have a pretty big vocabulary, and even included a Japanese word in there...although it was the word for a type of Anime Porn, so I was 50% proud, and 50% horrified.  You're hilarious.
• Katie, you had a burning desire to visit daddy at school and meet his class.  You skipped school and we went for an hour and a half this morning.  We ran into his principal at the office and got an evaluation form from her so we could do a formal observation on him.  Daddy's class is so quiet.  It was alarming how calm they were.  Not really what I expected from a classroom full of 13 year olds.  And Katie, you said they were like night and day compared to your class.  It was interesting to see daddy at work.  We've never seen him teach a class before because anytime we'd ever dropped into the school before, he was in the library.  Daddy made it look pretty easy, which I'm pretty sure it isn't.
• Lila, because Jane was home today, I came to pick you up all by myself.  You relish alone time with me.  You told me all kinds of little stories from your day.  Apparently you and Rose like to giggle and talk about butts and farts...but only outside...never inside.   You had a TOC today, and she was "a little bit ok, but a lot not Mrs. Bellet."  We went to the purple park to play.  Of course, you took your coat and socks and shoes off.  I don't know how you didn't turn into a little popsicle.  We stayed for over an hour.  And just like every other day, you open up your little lunch kit and polish off anything that remains.  Your lunches are huge.  I cannot believe how much you eat in a day.  Today I packed for you a sandwich, fishy crackers, grapes, raisins, pretzel crackers, peppers, apple sauce, a granola bar and a fibre one bar.  You ate it all.  Amazing.  
• George, when I was making dinner, I asked Jane to turn on a show for you and Lila.  You wanted Power Rangers and Lila wanted Scooby Doo.  Jane decided to put on Scooby Doo because you had already picked a show earlier in the day.  You weren't happy with her.  You finally burst out and yelled, "Jane, you ruined my life!!!!"  It was so dramatic and heartfelt.  It was really hard not to laugh.