As if that wasn't enough for the day, we got home, I made them strip and shower as a precaution against the poison oak and then Avi had a quick lunch before Nina and her mom came to take him on a play date to the park and their house. Then back again in time to get ready for swim lessons at 5:15. Walk both ways to swim lessons (four blocks each way), which isn't a big deal unless you're not yet four years-old and you've already climbed a mountain and ran around a playground all day. But he was a trooper and did it all without a meltdown all day. Cary pointed out that tomorrow might be the day where we see the ramifications.
Noah and Avi and I finished reading The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat before bed. For a book that's nearly one hundred years old, it does an amazing job of still capturing children's attention. My grandma recommended the books to me as a child, and I had forgotten what they were until a librarian here helped me find them again. The boys have such different needs when it comes to stories, Noah who reads voraciously on his own, and Avi who still likes to have the same book read to him repeatedly. And yet, they both were completely pulled into this book, despite the simplicity of it and the old sound of the language.
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