Daddy was gone the whole week. It was a long week. Not bad, just long. We went to preschool, went to the gym, had playdates with friends, etc. One evening we went shopping with grandma. Another evening we had a girls' night movie night. And we frequently bounced off the walls like small crazy people cooped up by cold weather.
But then Friday came. and the girls awoke, stumbled sleepily to my room, rubbing their eyes. They saw Daddy, who had slipped in during the night, and immediately shrieked, running to him for cuddled and loves. Butterfly insisted on helping to make breakfast for Daddy (our favorite, pancakes with nutella, bananas and strawberries) and eventually they let him go to work for a few hours. But he made it a short day and came home to play with us again. We went for a drive, ran a few errands and rescued their bikes from the storage unit. We played and cuddled and life is glorious with Daddy home again.
On Saturday, Daddy attended a training/planning meeting for some upcoming scout stuff. So the girls and had our usual run to the gym, play time and lunchtime. When Daddy came home we packed and loaded the girls up for a ride. We stopped at a few stores along the way and made our way north towards my mom's house. We stopped for dinner, at a sushi place we found on google maps. It didn't look promising, located in a strip mall in a run down part of town. But inside, it was beautiful, clean, inviting and classy. What a great find! The food was fantastic, our servers were great and especially patient and understanding with our three little ones. But the best part was the fish-carrot. We ordered the sesame chicken (along with our sushi rolls) and were very surprised at the beautiful presentation that included a carrot, standing on one end and intricately carved into a fish dancing on it's tail. Butterfly went nuts over it and ended up eating the whole thing herself after much admiration.
We finished off the day at a McDonald's playplace to run off some energy and treat the girls to ice cream cones. Butterfly and Ladybug ran off, with Lovely trailing behind them. But she bravely followed them all the way to the top of the playplace and then called down to us, over and over. The big girls raced down the slide, leaving her alone. Before I could fetch her (as I always have too), I heard her come tumbling down the tall twisty slide. Probably on accident, she came out on her back, head first and very upset. Poor kid! But so proud of her first time alone on the tall twisty slide. And then the best part was when Butterfly and Ladybug had to go in a little bubble at the very top of the playplace. They declared this to be their spaceship, which they used to go to Costco for me and buy milk, chocolate muffins and spinach. Husband used this evidence to declare our apparent arrival to yuppie-hood. The came down the slide, bringing me my groceries, and then made several trips back up to retrieve the next item on the list.
We spent the night at my mom's house, much to the girls' delight because they got to spent the whole day with their cousins who were also visiting. We played through breakfast, attended church and then played some more. Butterfly, as usual, disappeared immediately with a cousin a few years older into their own little world of princesses, tea parties and heroines. Ladybug played more leisurely bouncing from one cousin to the next, playing with the castle, reading books or playing hide and seek. And Lovely ran nonstop, cuddling and playing and bouncing from one activity to the next. She especially loves the lego table and just-her-size shopping cart. We watched movies, made a huge mess and played all day until it was time to go.
as we drove home, Husband and I tried to go over our calendar, reconciling the many dates and fun plans that keep popping onto the calendar. Summer fills up so fast! looking forward to so many fun things...
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