Tuesday the Great

My favorite day this week was Tuesday. Cinemark Theaters does dollar movies for kids during the summer. Apparently the times differ by location, but here they are every Tuesday at 10:00am. Three Tuesdays ago, they were playing a Chipmunks movie and I asked Emilia if she wanted to go, or do something else she wanted to. She didn't think Chipmunks looked that great (I don't blame her--not with the new ones anyway), so we looked at upcoming weeks and found that Nut Job was playing this last Tuesday. She thought it looked HILARIOUS. So for two weeks, she asked me constantly if it was movie Tuesday yet.

I was a little worried when we went that Cecily would be a pain, running around, or screaming for snacks, but she was a little angel. She sat on her chair without complaints, and when Mira said it was too hard for her to sit on her own chair, she shared hers. About 1/2 way through the movie, Cecily came to sit on my lap. She sucked her thumb and sat quietly on my lap the whole time. It was so sweet to cuddle with her for the better part of an hour. Everybody thought the movie was a crack up and they were quoting it all the way home.

After lunch, the neighbor girls were outside, so my girls played with them for a few hours. At 4:45, we had an appointment to take Flame for her first shots. Once again, all the girls were super excited, and they learned about being good pet owners. Since then, they have felt a lot more comfortable picking her up and playing with her. She's little and tends to bite and scratch them in play, but she has been quite good about letting them drag her around the house and make her houses. They even did a pet salon one day where they set up their little chair, put a pillow on it, sat her on it and then combed her with no less than three different combs. She sat on that chair for a good half hour just letting them be pet groomers.

Then Tuesday night, I got to visit a girlfriend of mine. We organized and decorated her craft area. It was fun to chat and organizing is always therapeutic for me.

The rest of the week was harder. The younger two were quite cranky. I don't know if Cecily is growing, or not getting enough sleep, but she was in destructo mode for 5 straight days. Gah.

Today, my whole family is getting together at my house as a goodbye get-together with Megan and her family before they move to Colorado on Friday. We will miss having them close by. One more excuse for us to visit Colorado, I guess. :)