Last Week

Tuesday Fairly typical Tuesday. Amber picked Dallas up around 12:30 for gymnastics with Trevin and Corbin, then back to their house to play. The girls had their art classes with Kathy Austin. During Emma's class, Mia and I went to a coffee shop for hot chocolate. I read her a couple books, a favorite being The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Then during Mia's class, Emma, Amabel, Christine and I went back to the coffee shop. More hot chocolate. This time chips and salsa for me. Emma did Cube Friends math.

Wednesday Dallas went to Trevin and Corbins (again) and the girls went to Jenny Warnasch's while I had a gyn appointment. One returning to pick up the girls, Jenny, Christine and I talked about ongoing Chapel Hill Homeschoolers "issues" -Just what constitutes "obsenity" for things posted to the CHH e-mail loop, etc. Wednesday evening Dallas did an "extra" reading lesson in anticipation of his sleeping over at Trevin's on Thursday night.

Thursday We started the morning by driving over to Christine's. Christine then took Mia and Luci and headed to Whole Foods, I took Amabel, Jaeger and Emma to Ariana's Japanese Mythology and Art class in Hillsborough. Dallas and I then went to the new Weaver Street Market. Dallas had hot cocoa and did his reading lesson. We then stopped at a hunting/fishing store and bought Dallas a couple new archery arrows. After picking up the art class gang we headed back to Christine's for a lunch of cheese quesadillas. We then loaded up all the kids and head over to Cedar Falls park in Chapel Hill for our weekly THEA park day. Once Jenny arrived, Christine, Dallas and I (and Kevynn...) left to drop Christine at her dentist appointment. I then drove Christine's car (at which point Kevynn had fallen asleep) to drop Dallas at Trevin's for his sleepover. I then returned to the dentist office and planned Friday's Daisy Girl Scout meeting while Kevynn sleep. After Kevynn woke up I entertained her with keys, a carrot/apple drink, and walking around outside. After all that Kevynn was getting a tad fussy so I drove her around and around and around the Chapel Hill Bible Church parking lot (the site of Friday's CHH Friday Enrichment Classes). Finally, after her first ever 90 minutes away from Kevynn we returned to the park day.

Friday Today was the last week of Friday Enrichment. I sat in on Mia's ballet class's demonstration. Very cute. Should have some video since I had Merri White's video recorder. Then it was on to Girl Scouts. Then to picking Dallas up and on home.

Saturday I went to the gym. Returned home. Took Dallas and Emma to the kid gym. Mia and I got a birthday present for Bella at the Dollar Store. Returned home. Emma put on her devil Halloween costume and Mia her mermaid costume and headed down the street to Bella's birthday party.

Sunday I swam/biked/ran the Ramblin Rose triathlon in Chapel Hill. Finished 292nd out of 600 or so entrants.

In the afternoon we went to the NC State Fair. The kids played a lot of balloon darts. You know, the carnaval-type game where you (the Dad) pays like $2/dart for your kid to through darts at balloons. And you need to pop like 15 balloons to win the really cool BIG prize up at the top of the display. Emma is actually pretty mean with a dart! She walked away with a big stuffed red dragon and a big stuffed blue dolphin (or whale, depending on how you look at it...)