Spyder & Sass

S&S's parents invited me to join them for supper last night at my very favorite pizza joint. I kept Spyder & Sass afterwards while they went off to a movie. Sass turned on the water works when her parents walked out. You'd have thought they were leaving her behind to go into the jungles of Peru, not walking across the street to a movie. Oh how she stood at the window and cried.

Not making fun of a child crying, but she is a wee bit of a daddy's girl, and a natural born princess. First, I asked Spyder to "be the big brother" and console her, thinking that she might intuitively realize it's ok if her brother is still here, then I realized we would just need to be on with the evening, because standing at the window waiting for them wasn't going to help.

So hand in hand, we crossed the parking lot, and by the time we were in the car, she was almost dried up.

A trip to Garden Ridge for them was very exciting. Spyder wanted to remember the name of the store so he can tell his Mom. They had to touch everything, with Spyder explaining the differences between man made and machine made. Then they each got one thing at Dollar Tree. Spyder picked out the glass stones in the arts section, pretending they are precious jewels. Ever the princess, Sass picked out a feather fan, which was broken before we'd gone 1/2 a mile towards home.

The evening finished off with a game of each of us flicking a stone towards an object, to see who could come the closest without going past. Spyder seems to be the best at controlling his flick.

Olives at my table, they are precious to me.