Six Years

This past Saturday was also Ted and Julie's wedding anniversary. That's right, Fans. It's been six years. Haven't they gone by in a blink? To celebrate this year, Julie found a sitter and Ted found a restaurant and we went out like fancy pants grown ups! Ted also got Julie some earrings with birds on them since this is the year Our Bird came to us. He got them at a store Julie mentioned but once liking! That Ted. . .But enough about all that. You're in this for news of the Bird herself, and her erstwhile, older sidekick. That was all prelude to the point of this post which is headed your way!

So Julie asked Ms. Che to sit. Ms. Che is one of the teachers in Clara's room, who also cared for Joe when he was in that room. When we arrived home after dinner, we chatted for a few minutes with Ms. Che who was telling us how much fun she had seeing the kids in their homes. She was amazed how talkative Joe is, and noted that he put the dogs right in their place when they were trying to lick her. Then we compared notes on Clara. Ms. Che reports that Our Bird motors everywhere around the room with John, and if something falls on the floor while the bigger kids in the room are eating, she is on it like white on rice. She's got definite ideas about which toys she likes, and is apparently a big fan of the "sensory bottle" [read: clear plastic water bottle filled with different stuff] with tissue paper inside it. If a "friend" takes her toy of the moment, Clara will, in Ms. Che's words, "look at the 'friend' who took it like 'Oh no you didn't,'" and go over and take it back and then take herself someplace else with it. Then we talked all about how Clara seems to want to twirl her hair. She tries hard (as you can see in the picture here), but since she obviously doesn't have enough hair to do this, she is all about other people's hair. So it was the perfect end to a perfect sixth wedding anniversary, comparing notes on Our Hero and Baby Bird.