The Gap Days

LAUSD, for budget cut reasons, shortened the school year by three days. Instead of ending the year on  Friday, Tuesday was Addie's last day. Summer Camp doesn't start until Monday so we had three days without a childcare plan. We did a kid swap with Addie's friend Danika - great idea! Wednesday, Addie spent the day at Danika's house with her mom baking cookies, playing dollhouse and swimming -- and going a little Lord of the Flies too (I'm told this is their own mixture of sidewalk chalk turned face paint and moss).



Thursday, I took off from work and the girls did Shrinky Dinks and then I took them to the Griffith Observatory planetarium to see the star show. This has been a dream of mine for years. You have to 5 to go to the star show so we never went because of the little ones. This was the perfect opportunity with Eliza and Xavier in school and a free day with two six-year-olds. Danika was somewhat terrified (she thinks Tinkerbell is scary) but made it through the half hour show. Addie, of course, wanted to go again.

Friday, Cap and I switched off at home with Addie and Danika. They jumped in the bounce house (poor Addie got stung twice by a wasp!), played house and dress-up, walked to get lemonade from the kids down the block, and then I tricked them into going to Target to get Addie's comfortable clothes for summer camp with the promise of an Icee.

The girls are amazing together. No fighting and they always have tons of fun. They don't go to the same elementary school during the year, but they start a week of soccer camp together on Monday, followed by a week of art camp and then the rest of the summer they are doing regular camp except for vacations. Next year we are thinking of sending the 2 of them off to sleep-away camp for a week in the Hollywood Hills. Addie is already super excited!