While Dad is away....

We dropped Dave (aka The Dadders) at the airport bright and early this morning for his family trip to Japan.  He will be gone for two whole weeks, which already kind of feels like an eternity.

The girls and I decided that we would miss him less (and he might feel less left out) if we recorded messages for him here.  So here goes.

After the airport, we were still so sleepy, we decided to get bagels and juice and eat them at Bruegger's.  After breakfast, we tried out the new Hello Kitty puzzle, and got it done together.  We went to the wading pool, and Clio's bathing suit ripped wide open.  Oops!  When we came home, she tried to put it in the recycling, but I explained it belongs in the "garbagh," thereby introducing Clio to this fancy term for plain old garbage.

We all took naps, each in a room of our own.  Eleri thought it was silly to sleep with her pillow halfway down the bed.  After nap, we went to the playground, but Eleri had a little accident, and the fun was short lived.  We picked up our farm share, and you'll be happy to know that greenilocks was revived.  This time her adventures took her to an island in the middle of a pond with a turtle house that has smaller and smaller and smaller doors to get in.

For dinner we had Grandma's meatballs, corn on the cob, french fries with ketchup in special bowls, and tomato cucumber basil feta salad, with ingredients from the farm.  The girls each had three servings of salad.  Eleri ate watermelon, and Clio had peaches, and I remembered that those were my favorite foods with each of them when they were still in my belly.  We think this is like magic.  We marveled at the fact that you are still not in Japan yet, after this whole long full day.

We had bath right after dinner because Eleri wrote on herself (in pen.)  The little plastic flounder went missing from the tub and Clio started some detective work, first looking for footprints, then handprints, then hair to see if we could track down the fish.  She did find some hair, but the fish remains at large.

After we say good night to you, we will go up and read library books for stories.

Clio is dying to type "xoxo," so I think it's time to say we love you.

xoxo

Your girls