It starts Friday evening with great expectations of sharing laughs and toys and stories about the past week.
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It starts Friday evening with great expectations of sharing laughs and toys and stories about the past week. By Sunday evening, the great expectation is a quiet time in a tub of hot water and a handful of aspirin.
Saturday and Sunday have been packed full of assisting Julia ride her bike, which is equipped with training wheels. The ride includes maneuvering numerous driveways with treacherous humps going down and coming up on the other side. But the little driver has them figured out and knows to wait for Gramma’s assistance. While waiting for Gramma to catch up, she balances herself by holding on to the mailbox, or sometimes just sitting and looking over her shoulder to measure Gramma’s progress.
This weekend was pretty windy, so the ride was limited to one circuit of the block. Then it was time for a plastic Frisbee game. That proved to be challenging because the wind wanted to play, too. It won. The plastic disk proved to be adept at suddenly making a right or left turn just as your fingertips were closing in on it. With the wind’s assistance, Julia managed a few good strikes on the house, and Gramma’s efforts seemed to take a lurch into the wild blue yonder just as the flying saucer approached Julia’s tiny hands.
Giving up on outdoor entertainment, we retired to the living room floor where we colored numerous pages and read stories to each other. This week’s favorite was about making a mess of baking chocolate chip cookies, beginning with the wheat field, the sugar cane patch, and the cocoa beans, to the smoke rolling out of the oven.