Ellery slept from 8:30pm until 8:00am, only waking twice to eat. Good job, kid. You can keep that up.
On a not-so-positive note, will someone please remind me that Fridays in the month of May are a godawful time to go to any place that a school might even consider taking their kids. Last week, we went to the zoo. Ridiculously crowded. Today we went to the aquarium. And, you know, when I saw the line of 50 kids stretching out beyond the main door, I almost did a 180 and ran. But Neko and Shep have been watching this DVD about aquariums all week and I didn’t have a prayer of not going.
So we went. An intimate trip of us and about 300 kids and not-very-attentive chaparones all crammed into a teeney midwest aquarium. I’m developing a theory that kids between the ages of 8 and 14 have no field of vision below their chests because Neko and Shep almost got plowed about 26 times. And they’ve changed the traffic flow, and somehow we missed the otters, which Neko was pretty ticked about. But somehow, out of the 642 frantic pre-adolescents trying to touch the baby sharks, Neko managed to do it, which made her toally forget the otters and exit in a blissful state.
Later we got pizza and had a picnic by the river in the sunshine, and everyone should have a picnic by the river in the sunshine in a box in their closet for rainy days because I completely forgot all about the crowds and suddenly we were all smiling.