June 1, 2007

7:00 Drop off. All the kids were tired and cranky due to the previous day's festivities celebrating Adam's 3rd birthday. At 10:00, Ariel met us and Ted and Mae at Pump it Up for some jumpy tent fun. Then Ariel went back home with Grandma and we had a picnic lunch at the airport. It was a bit cool and windy there, but we did see some planes take off and land. And then Ellen took Alex to his swim class while I decorated Adam's cake. And in the evening, the fam and Ellen came back for a pizza party. It was quite the day for everyone, pictures are here.

Anyway, as I was saying, everyone was tired and grumpy and it looked like it might be a long day.

7:30 Breakfast. Ariel ate about half her blueberries before she freaked out so her breakfast was over.

8:15 Took Adam to his swim class. Ariel was pretty calm, except for when Mae wanted to sit on my lap and when I wouldn't let her have a treasure toy.

9:00 The moms at class decided to go to the new Starbucks at the 29th street mall and we came along. They finally put in a play area at the mall (and I think a Jamba Juice too) so we might actually go there.

Everyone had fun playing. Ariel liked playing with the big girls, Rachel and Lucy.



And then she got some donut and that made her really happy.



10:30 And after Starbucks, the moms were going to go to a meeting at the JCC (which I did not know of) and since I had nothing better to do, we went there too.

The meeting turned out to be brainstorming for new programing for our demographic, which, while not riveting was at least not boring. And best of all, there was free childcare. One of the preschool teachers watched all the kids on the playground. Even Ariel wanted to be outside and had no problem being away from me.

12:00 Went home, Ariel fell asleep in the car.

12:15 Home - Ariel went right to her bed.

2:30 Ariel woke up, had some lunch. Finished her blueberries and had some yogurt and then threw a fit.

3:00 Ran some errands - first we went to McGuckin's to get a new water filter (which would have worked great if Jeremy had not broke the actual under the sink device while trying to install said filter). Then we went to Target to exchange one of Adam's new extra Darth Vadar toys. They had a small selection but the boys didn't want to check elsewhere so we got an Imperial Guard and an Imperial Shooter. Ariel just wanted to play with my phone (again) which would have been fine if she hadn't thrown it on the tile floor. Now it's slightly broken:



It's going to cost a lot of money and hardship to replace my $30 pay-as-you-go-phone. Actually, now that I think about it, this was Jeremy's old phone, I might have my old phone around here somewhere. Hmmmmm.

3:45 Becky picked up Ariel from Target.