an evening out (3/365d)

walked a very very tired henry to school this morning. he left nearly a quarter of an hour after everyone else, and got there as the bell rang. it's so very nice, and such a luxury, to have some one-on-one time, walking through the city, even though we were in a rush, and he was tired, he had so much to say and it was so fun.

a very useful conversation with the director of school about felix. he probably won't "have" to skip a grade... he is very learning advanced, but very young, and they have some really good ideas, the best being what they call the "revolving door." ... i'm very curious how the change will feel in january.

theodore's nativity scene
the fence took him the longest.

strange feeling today, after lots of practicing and homework and reading we took the childruns to the playground, and left them there... the annual end of year sleepover in the party room with sleeping bags and card games. all three of them! brian and i went out for a walk in the "snow" (slushy drizzle) and got wet feet. dried my socks on the heater while we had dinner out, and then we saw olena play a show with her band the woody machine at cafe kaiserfeld, in the "governer's room" completely surrounded by steel-mounted pictures (some very good, some very not) of (kind of old) arnold schwarzenegger.