Our Memorial Day Weekend fun started with celebrating Jeff Perkins’ graduation from Pittsburg State University. The party at Marcia and Chuck’s was the usual combination of great food, drink, family and friends. Mikaela and Jonathan had a blast in the backyard, playing tag and hide and seek with Cousin Margo.
On Sunday, it was on to [...]

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Right after dinner tonight, Jonathan asked to play Pla-Doh. But as Miriam was getting down the Pla-Doh, Jon recognized the “Bubble Blower” that we’d stashed because it didn’t work without batteries in it. At that point, his interest immediately shifted to BUBBLES!!! I found a spare AA battery in the camera bag, and we went [...]

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The kids had fun this morning, clambering around at Monkey Bizness.

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Last night was Mikaela’s end-of-the-year dance recital in the White Theater at the Jewish Community Center. Mikaela was VERY nervous heading in to the recital. Her teacher, Miss Maggie, had emphasized in the weeks leading up to the recital how important it was to get their steps right. Mikaela was afraid that meant that Miss [...]

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I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that one of the reasons for taking Mikaela to the skating party was that she needed a diversion, and that I’d post more about why. Mikaela needed a diversion, because she was upset that Spike didn’t live with us any more.
Well,we took Spike to the vet for [...]

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Today there was a special music program at Mikaela’s school. They don’t usually do “performances” with just one class. But Mikaela’s kindergarten class is a particularly enthusiastic music bunch, so we got a sort of mixture of an end-of-the-year/Mother’s Day concert. Here’s the finale:
The whole concert is available for download here. It’s about 15 minutes [...]

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Tonight was the last Cottonwood Point Elementary rollerskating party of the year, and the first against which we didn’t already have a conflict. And Mikaela needed a good diversion tonight (more on that tomorrow), so I brought her to her first rollerskating party.
For me, the experience was a bit surreal. The name may have changed [...]

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