She only just recently realized that sometimes we have three-day weekends. She fully endorses the concept, and hardly a weekend goes by without her wistfully asking whether it will be three days or two.
"No, hon. We need to go to school and work on Friday. But pretty soon, in a couple of weeks, we'll have a holiday on Monday."
Lord knows I'm looking forward to it myself.
Penny had a good birthday. They had cupcakes at school, and Penny got to be at the front of the class lines all day (an important birthday privilege!) and after we got home, she opened the rest of her birthday presents from Matt's folks.
That was hysterical, because she insisted on a bit of clean floor to open each gift, but wouldn't move anything (even paper) after she'd opened it, so it wasn't long before the whole floor was covered with birthday detritus.
Everyone seems to have converged on Spider-Man as the gift theme -- Ray-Ray, Jill, and Matt's dad and stepmom all sent her Spider-Man gifts! (Matt's brother and his wife sent Batman and Justice League DVDs, so we could expand to the larger theme of "superheros.") And both grandparents sent some clothes for school, and Jill sent some school supplies, as well. (The clothes Matt's dad sent are definitely too big -- size 6, and Penny's only barely fitting into the 5's -- and I'm still trying to decide if we should just keep them for next year, or try to exchange them. I already know my mom is planning to take her shopping for school clothes as well, so maybe I'll wait and see how much Mom gets.)
I let Penny pick our vegetable for dinner last night (carrots, raw) and after dinner, of course, there was cake and candles and singing.
I don't think she actually went to sleep until after 10.
Today she's going on a field trip with her class at school -- a park with a swimming pool that they've been to several times this summer already. It sounds like they'll be heading over immediately after lunch, and won't come back until almost snacktime. (Why she was begging to stay home from school this morning, I have no idea!)
And then this evening, her school is throwing a carnival/back-to-school party, just for the pre-K and school-age kids. They've promised games and snacks and fun, and Penny is eager to go. Maybe I'll get dinner on the table early so she can go.
(After all this excitement, tomorrow and Friday are going to be terribly boring for her!)
But hey, one of her friends from school called last night to RSVP for her party, so she'll have at least two friends there -- her two favorite girlfriends, in fact, so even if no one else can make it (there's still four or five kids who haven't responded yet) they'll have fun.
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