"Mouse Show Too Scary"

We had been reading If You Take a Mouse to School for weeks. We talked and talked about going to see the "Mouse Show." We had our tickets in hand and were ready to go.

The stage looked interesting and the seats were very comfy. Yet, Mama and Papa hadn't thought to tell Finley that when the show started, the theater would get dark, the music would be loud, and the mouse would actually be a man wearing funny ears dancing around crazily!



Too scary! Finley clung to me and tried to bury his head. We clearly needed to leave. Outside the theater all Finn could tell us was that the mouse show was, "too scary." We tried to sneak back in a couple of times, but Finn was not having it. So, we went to the park instead. Much better!



--JAK

Touch a Truck

The people in Elmhurst really understand little boys. They welcomed us, for only $1, to wander a parking lot and touch a whole bunch of trucks, and a bus, a helicopter, a mini-car, a crane... Finn was literally overwhelmed by the whole thing, especially the horns, but certainly got to touch a lot of trucks.

--JAK

Grace came to visit

We were very excited to have Michelle, Paul, and Grace in town for Labor Day weekend! Finn and Grace got to practice the toddler art of sharing. The adults, after putting the kiddos to bed, got to remember what it felt like to enjoy an adult dinner and conversation!

--JAK


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Family Read Time

The nightly routine calls for putting on a fresh diaper and PJs (which some nights amounts to 10 minutes of collegiate wrestling), brushing teeth and then three books. However, Finn is already mastering the art of stalling before bedtime, wanting to surpass the three book quota, demanding "I want more book" and slithering off the coach, shuffling to the book basket and returning eagerly with another tome in hand. We often relent, and a fourth read it is.

This night, we finished up our third installment, Eric Carle's Baby Bear - from the Brown Bear series - after which Finn insisted on Duck in the Truck, a Jez Alborough yarn about a narcissistic duck who drives a truck that gets stuck in the muck, fortunately to be rescued by a Good Samaritan frog, sheep and goat, who for their troubles to push the truck out and back onto the track remain themselves stuck in the muck as the duck, unconcerned for his liberators, revs on down the road all smiles.

I sincerely hope Finn gets the irony.

--JAC