Springtime

How can these weekends go by so quickly? Ridiculous! Today Naomi and I headed to a birthday party for her classmate. It was at... Chuck E. Cheese. This was Naomi's first visit to the venerable Mr. Cheese's. She was a little overwhelmed at first, but had recovered enough after an hour and a half to declare that Chuck E. Cheese was super duper fun. Whee. I was comparing notes with another mom, and we agreed that our childhood version of this was Showbiz, and that Showbiz had been much bigger, darker, and deafeningly louder. So Chuck's was brighter and quieter (somehow) than I thought it was going to be. Still an insane mob scene. We tried to find some games to use our free tokens on. I found one that looked cute, with penguins, and after it started I realized that the point of the game was to hit the penguins (and occasionally walruses) over the head with a big wooden mallet. Nice.

We had a little sun in the afternoon, though the sprinkles have returned. This area is known for non-stop rain, I get it, but we go through periods here where it just gets ridiculous. It has warmed up, too, which is nice. Hopefully March's in-like-a-lion phase is over, and the lamb part is here to stay.

Jim convinced Naomi to try to pick every dandelion in the backyard, so both girls ended up with a lot of flowers.