Happy Birthday Lauren
Today was Lauren's birthday. I decided to take her to Picasso's Coffeehouse for her own mocha. (I know this sounds really weird, but she's forever mooching off mine and every single time she asks, ''Can I have my own?'' So...um...what can I say? She'll be the only kindergartner who comes to class with a triple latté.)
So I went to get her dressed and she wanted to ''be fancy,'' which translated into opening her dress-up trunk and hauling out a favorite...this happened to be a white bridal dress and veil. Totally weird, but it's your birthday, so whatever. I was also feeling inspired to get out the foam stick-on letters, and spelled out a message on the back of her veil:
She and I trooped off to Picasso’s with Grandma and David. We ordered an interesting combination of mochas (they made hers at about 120 degrees instead of 160, to reduce the risk of her burning herself. It really was the perfect temperature, and I was so impressed that they thought of that!), hot chocolates and strawberry smoothies...and a couple of lemon biscotti.
Turns out that David adores the strawberry/pineapple/banana smoothies, and hates biscotti. Lauren thinks biscotti dipped in café mocha is pretty much (+5000) manna from Heaven.
We sat around the fireplace for awhile, until David discovered the wooden games set in the back area. At this point we had to move back there while Grandma taught him how to play his first Checkers game. I played Snakes and Ladders with Lauren (and she won...fairly!), and she had fun playing with the Chinese checkers board.
We stayed longer than I'd anticipated (2 hours or so?) and we went back home, opened a present (a book, There's a Mouse About the House), and picked up Dad for lunch. Yes, it was the weekend, but he had to work. At least it was from home.
She was a complete hit at Red Robin...got three balloons, a free ice cream sundae and lots of grins and ''Happy Birthday'' wishes.
After that we took her home to curl up with her blankie and several friends (Blue Pony, Panda, Cottontail and Pink Horse) to watch The Last Unicorn. She watched that with Grandma and David while I went to the grocery store to get Thanksgiving stuff.
Tonight David pretty much couldn't wait to get to bed...it looks like he's coming down with something evil. Let's see, that means Lauren will have it by Tuesday, and I'll have it for Thanksgiving. I really, really hope I'm wrong. Positive thinking: I won't catch this thing, and neither will anybody else.
So I went to get her dressed and she wanted to ''be fancy,'' which translated into opening her dress-up trunk and hauling out a favorite...this happened to be a white bridal dress and veil. Totally weird, but it's your birthday, so whatever. I was also feeling inspired to get out the foam stick-on letters, and spelled out a message on the back of her veil:
I'M
3
TODAY!
3
TODAY!
She and I trooped off to Picasso’s with Grandma and David. We ordered an interesting combination of mochas (they made hers at about 120 degrees instead of 160, to reduce the risk of her burning herself. It really was the perfect temperature, and I was so impressed that they thought of that!), hot chocolates and strawberry smoothies...and a couple of lemon biscotti.
Turns out that David adores the strawberry/pineapple/banana smoothies, and hates biscotti. Lauren thinks biscotti dipped in café mocha is pretty much (+5000) manna from Heaven.
We sat around the fireplace for awhile, until David discovered the wooden games set in the back area. At this point we had to move back there while Grandma taught him how to play his first Checkers game. I played Snakes and Ladders with Lauren (and she won...fairly!), and she had fun playing with the Chinese checkers board.
We stayed longer than I'd anticipated (2 hours or so?) and we went back home, opened a present (a book, There's a Mouse About the House), and picked up Dad for lunch. Yes, it was the weekend, but he had to work. At least it was from home.
She was a complete hit at Red Robin...got three balloons, a free ice cream sundae and lots of grins and ''Happy Birthday'' wishes.
After that we took her home to curl up with her blankie and several friends (Blue Pony, Panda, Cottontail and Pink Horse) to watch The Last Unicorn. She watched that with Grandma and David while I went to the grocery store to get Thanksgiving stuff.
Tonight David pretty much couldn't wait to get to bed...it looks like he's coming down with something evil. Let's see, that means Lauren will have it by Tuesday, and I'll have it for Thanksgiving. I really, really hope I'm wrong. Positive thinking: I won't catch this thing, and neither will anybody else.
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