Today Jonathan attended his first day of CAPS, which is a preschool-type program offered by Capital Gymnastics (he’s been going to one of their gyms since he was 18 months old) at a different location that we’ve been to before. (The reason why we’re doing this is involved and boring, so I shall spare y’all a recitation of it.) This last year he’s been going to Bal Pals on Mondays & Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. CAPS, on the other hand, is 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. I was a little concerned that the longer time might be a problem, but he had a fantastic time. Barely gave me a second look when I said good-bye this morning, and while he gave me a big smile and sort of headed my direction when I arrived to pick him up, he wasn’t overjoyed to see me. All the rest of the afternoon (partly occupied by getting some new Bob the Builder books and some Amy’s Ice Cream), he talked about when he would get to go to CAPS again and how he now goes to school—CAPS is school, Mummy, he said. I think he wishes he could go every day. I am so pleased he had a great time—sob, sob.
While he was at CAPS, I went to spend the time with my friend Jessica and her baby Eamon, who will be six months on Friday. (I know Jessica through Jennifer—her husband Archie used to be Jfer’s roommate). We had planned this on Saturday when Jessica, Archie, Eamon, Jfer, & Stepan were over for the afternoon & dinner, so that Jessica could try to finish up a contract job, and it turned out to be an even better thing this morning since she was ill all last night. I got to doze with Eamon on the bed, and before I left I took him outside in the sling, patted his bottom and sang to him, and he just put his little head against my hand and went to sleep. So it felt good to leave a hopefully more-relaxed mommy with a happily sleeping baby—and I do love to have little babies sleeping on me! I’d taken off his clothes so he had just a diaper on, and he seemed to like that. Not too many smiles from him today as he seems to be teething, but I did get a few and he woke up quite happy from his first nap.
I also confess that after all the cards we played last week at Kathleen’s that I bought a Hoyle’s computer card game program and played a new solitaire I hadn’t played before (Spiderette), then some Hearts, then some Euchre. A very dangerous purchase.
Posted by elizabeth at August 19, 2003 12:17 AMThat is really great that Jonathan is starting and enjoying school. I know exactly what you mean by playing computer games. Hoyle or not, most of them can be addicting. My current addiction is Mahjong. I've been playing the same puzzle trying to better my time. Object of the game is to click on matching pairs to remove them. There are a 144 tiles in this particular puzzle. My best time so far is 2 minutes and 40 seconds.
Posted by: Theresa on August 20, 2003 09:01 AM