Great Day

Benny and I decided that a really valuable experiment at gymnastics class would be to always without fail let other kids go first. To never be first. My thinking was that this would take some of the stress out of racing to be first, stifling protest when other children are first, noting that the line "Doesn't look quite right" to him, and stuff like that. It worked GREAT. He was such a doll today. Really a doll. All day.



We left the house at 8:30 for Gymnastics. Dropped Sadie at Ahno's house. Did his class and ran into Porterfields there, because Zoe has her class right after Benny. They invited us over (or rather, Benny suggested plaintively that we should really go over and Veronica agreed) so we ran home, got Leroy from home and Sadie from Ahno, went back, had big huge fun in the back yard and then lovely lunch. After that, we went to the park for homeschool park day... I *think* I met some homeschoolers, but we didn't flash our secret gang signs, so I'm not sure. Benny had a FANTASTIC time -- there were lots of regular school kids there too and Benny loves a big herd of kids to run with. It was such a huge herd it was a little breathtaking, especially with Sadie who has no fear whatsoever and of course Leroy who wanted to meet everyone and lick a layer of their skin off.



Great day. Benny's playing Wallace and Gromit on the Playstation right now and Sadie is watching him from Daddy's chair, looking quite glazed over. Poor little moppet had to catch a nap in the car. No workbooks today. The weather was too good. I did get some help on my "Echar Flores" song from Veronica though.