We went to the Guatemala adoption meet up tonite. A very Seattle cafe- in a church basement, with a playroom and amateur hour going on in the main room (and some pinched face lady came over and closed the door to the playroom, as though we had no right to be there and children should be seen and not heard in a playroom). And a pay-what-you-feel-like coffee bar. Do you think $1.50 for 2 Snapples and 2 cookies was too much?
There were two moms there and 3 kids- all 4+. They were all very nice and Kat had a great time watching the big kids play silly games they made up, like 'burglar', which seemed to consist of one kid "throwing" poison on the other, presumably the burglar. We were all entertained watching those imaginative kids.
And there were two more older girls, but they and their parents didn't deign to come into the playroom until the other children had left. They never even acknowledged the existence of any of the 8 of us who were in there the whole time. It's great to see such wonderful American values being taught to these children. I can't fathom why they bothered to show up, if socializing with other kids/parents wasn't the point of the outing. They could have taken their eco-friendly Birkenstocks and home-grown granola anywhere if they just wanted to feel superior to people, but apparently they had to feel superior to other Guatemalan kids and adoptive parents.
Boo Radley has been driving us CRAZY! I don't know if it's the baby (I don't really think so, I think it's the voices in his head), or maybe the heat but he spends all day and all evening when we're here, walking around coming up for pets and reassurance. EVERY TWO MINUTES he's back and as you can imagine, it gets old fast. I have just concluded that maybe it's the ceiling fans in the family room, as they've been on almost all the time since we got home and the breeze from them causes things to move around and maybe he thinks it's a whole host of ghosts? I have turned them off and he's now resting quietly on the floor and hasn't bugged me in at least 10 minutes.
We have discovered that our YMCA membership entitles us to FREE CHILD CARE!!! While at the Y, and 2 hrs max (I don't know if that's per day or per visit), and within their parameters- 4-8pm M-F, 8-1 Sat/Sun and then some. We were all there last night and probably will be again tomorrow. It's great for Kat, as we'd like her to get used to other people and kids, but aren't ready to do daycare or anything like that yet. But I don't want the concept to be completely foreign to her, especially as she approaches what is supposed to be the 'stranger fear' stage.
I just found that if you hold the arrow buttons and go up (or down) through this post, it looks like a movie of Kat in the box. I LOVE the continuous shoot function of my camera.
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