Another suburban family morning

A beautiful Saturday. 

We got to sleep in. Aria came and woke us up about 8:20. Usually, someone is up between 7 and 7:30. A little bleary because Audrey woke up at 3:50 for something or other - we never did find out what - but that's really unusual now. Most nights kids are asleep by 9 and they stay in their rooms all night. (And what a blessing that is.)

Hosanna was on fire. She went downstairs, put on some jazz, and made waffles. I've been eating (mostly) vegan since January, but I tossed that out the window as soon as I smelled the waffle smell. Waffle smell is hard to beat.

After breakfast, Hosanna went out for a bike ride with her mom. I started rounding up library books. We needed to take back the second half of the Bone series, as well as some Ivy + Bean. Aria worked on a board game she was inventing based on the Familiars books. She's just finishing up book 2 of that series. And she tore through all the Bone books and Ivy & Bean books in just a few days. She's pretty much graduated to chapter books now although she still likes to read comics and picture books for fun too. (She tells me to tell you that she still likes "About Owls".)

While Aria did her game, Audrey read some Archie comics they borrowed from their friends Siena and Shaenee. Audrey looooooooooooooves Archie. Her favorite character is Archie. Aria's favorite character is Veronica. I think it's funny that they call Jughead "Juggie" and his dog is named "Hot Dog." Audrey can read chapter books too. She's reading Toys Go Out right now. 

Speaking of Shaenee and Siena, we'll be seeing them later today. We're going to their house to pick up a Harry Potter costume for Aria. That's because we're going to a Harry Potter birthday party later today. (Say this 10 times fast: "Harry Potter Party." It's hard.) That's for some other friends at Aria's school - Grace, Ella and Rose, the triplets.

Somewhere in there we're going to stop by Uncle Adamen's bike shop so Hosanna can get her cables & housing replaced and we can buy a new pump. It's "May is Bike Month" and I plan on riding to work as often as possible this month. I started it off right, by getting a huge nail in my tire on the ride home from work yesterday. I learned an important lesson: CO2 cartridges are amazing. 

The kids don't particularly like going to the bike shop, but they do like bikes. Aria can ride her bike ("The Diamond") pretty fast now. She'll go way off ahead of us and then come back, as if to say What is Taking You So Long? When she rides off, her hair and her streamers fly in the wind behind her. There's a hill by the Sunrise foot bridge that is pretty steep, and if she stands up and really cranks it, she can make it up.  

Audrey is riding a bike too. Hers is called Amethyst and it's just right since we lowered the training wheels so it doesn't wobble as much. Hosanna braided the streamers on it so it looks like Amethyst has hair. Audrey thinks that's pretty cool. When she first started riding it, she would only stop by using her feet, but she's getting the hang of braking with the pedals now.

(Interjection #1: Aria and Audrey are proofreading what I'm writing. Audrey just caught that I misspelled "braking" as "baking." Earlier, Aria saw that I wrote "abike" instead of "a bike.")

(Interjection #2: I'm now typing this from practically sitting on the floor, because Aria pushed the seat adjuster dealio down all the way and my chair sank like 3/4 of a foot. It's an interesting perspective, being this short. "You totally took that by surprise, didn't you?" She says. Um, yes, it's pretty surprising when your chair suddenly sinks.)

And now my blogging time is up. Shower then go to the library then go to Shaenee and Siena's house and my phone is ringing crap crap crap. Ooooo, it's Aunt Lisa! Bye now.