Gordon also asked: “How’s the Lydster?”
Well, her birthday is today. I wrote a letter to our Bradley birth instructor this week indicating how important that childhood education was for us. (The birth story, BTW, is here.)
We’re planning her birthday party. This will be her first one that wasn’t ice cream and cake with the family. Meanwhile, she’s been to LOTS of fancier gigs of her friends. It’s not a matter of competition, but on the other hand, this one at least, we thought we’d do something at the local museum.
The invitations have turned out to ber more of a chore than we thought. She wants to invite her old friends from day care, some of whom we have no contact info. Meanwhile, she’s decided that she doesn’t want to invite a couple of her new friends because they recently took her stuffed animal without permission. Her mother suggested that she just not bring the stuffed animal; I say that she’s got to speak up when that happens and complain to them and, if necessary, to her teachers. Someone told me kids don’t hold a grudge; I’m not convinced that’s true with mine.
I was tentatively pleased about the news on the peanut butter allergy front. It’d be nice if, one day, she had one less allergy, since it’s about time for the daily sprays to deal with her pollen allergies.
There’s a working dog on our bus every morning. She’s gone from making sure that I’m between her and the canine to hurrying past it; this is progress.
There’s an open house in Albany for kids entering kindergarten this weekend, with registration starting on Monday. Someone suggested that this will make life easier; I’m not convinced. Since we live in walking distance of her school, I’m still not sure how I get her to school and get to work on time. (And by “on time” I’d settle for within a half hour, as opposed to 2.5 hours.) The buses run infrequently to Corporate (frickin’) Woods, and kindergarten starts late – 8:45 a.m. Don’t know how other parents who both work outside the home deal with this stuff.
Lydia is either going to take her first train ride or first plane ride this year; I haven’t decided.
Any specific questions?
ROG