i woke up WAY too early. like 6:15 because bob had to go out. we
are working on gettting him to not need to be crated at night (because
the crate is ugly and i don't want it in my bedroom forever). once i
woke up a little and got some coffee in my system, i admired the grass
which is finally despite the various weather issues is finally coming
up well:

maia
got a her first sewing box yesterday (it's the round one) and she spent
the morning sorting through her various items and trying to filch some
from mine before we went to the grocery store:

later,
after missy and catharine joined us for lunch at home, we went with
catharine to help her pick out some new glasses. i think maia did more
trying on with me taking pictures than we actually helped:

we
stopped at the katerbean in regent square where i had a cup of
tea--yes, i said tea! before getting dropped off at home. maia and i
made a welcome sign out of chalk before we went to get tristyn:

and
now we are are getting ready to take tristyn to piano (i type this as i
wait for tristyn to locate his shoes even though he just took them off
30 mins ago!)