I then got as far as to read the Christmas Countdown list from last year and realize I'd already saved it in a Word document last year.
As I was working on both of those things at the computer and after the Tile Guy finished up with our grouting and ceiling patch, Natalie announced she was going to go get kasha at the store. I said, "Oh good!" and handed her the fruit-and-veggie-laden grocery list, which she sighed heavily at. Then Aleks wanted to go with her. Then Bastian wanted to go with her as well, so I decided it best if we all got ready and went to the store together.
At the Food Co-op, we saw our friends India and George and talked happily about the sleepover Aleks & Bastian had at their house last week, as well as about the upcoming changes in the works for the Co-op. Since the co-op didn't have kasha, we decided to go to the Russian grocery.
In the entryway of the store was this poster. It's some theatre event that I can't quite understand.
Aleks was wearing his lion costume. Apparently, this is his usual grocery store attire.
I quite liked this weird Troll guy.
Honeycomb in jars. Jon has told me before about getting comb straight out of the fridge at his grandparent's house (they kept bees) when he was a kid. My parents have also kept bits of comb about for chewing on. Aleks was into it.
There were bulk Russian chocolates and candy, the children's favorite part by far.
On the way to the Russian store, Natty got a call from our friend of ours that they were going to be playing soccer at a field between the Russian store and our home. So we went for the pick-up game. I called Jon while we were there to get started on the pizza dough so it'd be ready for dinner, even if we didn't get a chance to make our own mozzarella.Aleks was way into playing with the big kids.
Bastian tried it out a bit too.
Johnny brought the heat. And the crazy.
Natty in action!
Aleks got filthy dirty by attacking people's legs as a defensive mode. I told him he'd go the way of that girl from the University of New Mexico team who got suspended. The other players didn't seem to need to give him a card at all though.
Examining injuries (from wrestling with his brother at home the night before rather than flinging himself at running adults).
It was a beautiful day.
Anna, in between a wedding and a reception, stopped by to play zombie with Bastian a bit.
We taught Bastian how to do somersaults. I consider it a minor failure as a mother for not having ever shown him before!
Afterward, it got so late we totally couldn't finish the pizzas and instead ran about finishing our errands before ordering take-out pizza while Jon and I ate out with our friends over at Slow Learning.
We may not have finished much of our to-do list, but it was a full and lovely day nonetheless.
