Spring 2017

Alice has had a nice spring this year.  She has sleep-overs nearly every week-end, and play-dates most weeks.  She has a nice varied group of friends.  She continues to enjoy her music lessons with Ms. Tracy, and we've been spending hours at a time outside swinging from the tree, usually having conversations about anything and everything.  She's pushing to be more independent and usually walks home after school now.  She has also been practicing on her bike and has a small but growing range of freedom for exploring and practicing.

Alice still maintains her fairly recent appreciation of Olive Garden and prefers it to any other restaurant, so we go there more frequently than in the past.  Although its P. Terry burgers if she gets anything she wants... plus the chocolate shake of course.

Also... don't want to ever forget the budding chemistry interest.  Alice, like many others, is really loving playing with slime this spring.  She has been looking up and experimenting with numerous online recipes.  She keeps most of the results in old yogurt containers in a stack in the play room with creative and interesting names.

Also... she just finished her second after school coding club session (daddy was proud, certificate for office wall!, but Alice mostly goes for the social hang-out I think, whatever coding activities they do she seems to do easily).

Its really been a wonderful year being a parental unit.  Good times.

Friday Night, Pizza Night!

Alice learned early that she loves pizza.  This led to responses of "pizza!" whenever asked what she wanted to eat.

Dad:  What do you want for breakfast Alice?
Alice:  Pizza! (followed by short pizza dance)

Dad and Mom needed to let Alice know that pizza is a treat and not something anyone should eat every day, especially for breakfast.  Our solution was to officially designate Friday night as pizza night.  She could get her yummy pizza predictably (plus let us off the hook to cook after work on Friday).  So we began responding to every request for pizza with, "Friday night is pizza night, you'll have to wait until then" or something like that.

This has seemed to work well as she no longer asks for pizza for breakfast.  Its still the dinner that gets her most excited and she loves hearing that dinner is pizza on our drive home from school on Friday.

Alice also gets excited for "Parties!" where she often gets pizza.  Just mentioning that we are going to a party gets her energized and she'll run for the door to get her shoes yelling, "Come on daddy".  She often encourages me to get out the door faster.  I'm not sure if this excitement is for possible party pizza or just for party fun.  Since she mostly plays with us at parties, I'm guessing its in large part due to possible party pizza (and cake of course but that is for another post).