A Few Extras

Just a few odds 'n ends that didn't/won't fit into other posts...

On Thursday, November 29th, Sophie had her 2nd special helper day at school and brought her daddy along as her guest.  They had a great day together!

A few more pictures of our babysitting night with Mya & Stella...

Munching our fruits and veggies while we wait for Uncle Craig/daddy to return with pizza.

We heart Vito's pizza.

After reading our book of the day, we went on to read several more of the previous days books.  One of them was Pete's a Pizza by William Steig - a favorite of my kids.  We added a "story stretcher" (kinda literally) as we took turns with each of the kiddies on the table while we "kneaded", "stretched", "sauced", and "added toppings" to the dough.  At the end, we "sliced" the pizza with our forearms and took a big pretend bite (really just an exaggerated chomping sound).  They laughed and laughed and each kid took about three turns before I finally said, "okay, time for bed!"

On Tuesday, December 11th, Craig went with his friend Jason to a Cavs game in Cleveland to support some local cheerleaders who were invited to perform/cheer (??) at the game.  (Jason's wife is the coach.)  Since it was a "Nana Day" anyway (where the kids are at Nana's after school until I pick them up), I just brought over our bath supplies, jammies and book of the day after work and we spent the evening their until bedtime.  Nana made us lasagna with salad and garlic bread for dinner and then read Little Farmer Joe to the kids after they hunted for it in her living room.  (This book happened to be a $2 score from Once Upon a Child, which was an awesome coincidence because it wasn't available on Amazon and I wanted it desperately.  :))

Sophie and Will got to take a bath in Nana's big tub and get into their jammies before we called it a night and went home.  It was a fun change in routine from our usual week night evening.  Thanks, Nana & Papa!