Around the Bases!

We took the kids to hear salsa music at the Kennedy Center on Friday.  Diego was the most willing to get on the dance floor  while Charlie and Cici could only be convinced to stand on the dance floor.  I sure hope that changes. Charlie and Diego need to learn to salsa before it is too late and their hips move like gringos!

I took the kids to Philly this weekend to escape the rain.  All the museums here are closed due to the shutdown (as are playgrounds!) so it makes rainy days pretty tough!  The weather turned out to be great there so between grandma's toys and the Germantown Academy fields the kids had so much fun.  We visited my mom's store (http://curiophiladelphia.com) - which looks awesome - and Charlie and Diego love to use the typewriters she has on display.  I guess there is immediate gratification that comes with seeing the letters appear on a real piece of paper.  Nevertheless, they seem more adept at using the ipad...

We watched Germantown Academy's football game and then rushed the field to play kickball.  We played kickball, soccer, tennis, baseball, catch and ran around the track.  It was so awesome to have so many great facilities for them  to use.  It was especially fun to see them run the bases - it is a really long way around for their little legs!! Of course they always get a home run so after about 10 home runs they were ready to move on to the next sport.

Charlie has a little race this coming weekend so I wanted him to run a 1/4 mile to be familiar with the distance.  He ran twice around the track, but I only clocked it in once at 2:09.  Not bad.  My main goal is that he doesn't stop, but we'll see if he can improve that timing during the race.

Diego ran half way around and when I ran to cheer him on he fell on the ground and started crying.  I can almost make sense of that, but not quite.  One more Diego mystery.  Despite his recent attitude, Diego says some pretty amusing things these days.  There is a kid named Tate at school and Diego will only call him "Tape" despite Charlie's best efforts to reform him.  And when Carlos asked Diego how much he loved him, Diego responded "about 30 miles."  We told him that if he doesn't cry for a whole week at school, we will take him to Chuck E Cheese - so now he says "I'm not going to cry so we can go to cheddar cheese."

Sofia is a total joy.  She doesn't nap very well during the day, but has been sleeping pretty well at night.  She can sleep from 7pm to 6am if she wants to.  I'm trying to get her sleeping through the night before my upcoming work trip.  I'm super worried about being gone for a full week.  I just know she'll be out of sorts and wake up a lot and I'm paranoid about her not wanting to nurse when I get home.