President's Day 2014

Little boy, big snow.

Just after Valentine's Day, when you think February can't get much better, President's Day rolls around.  Ted reports that Friday evening found Our Hero blabbing on about Barak Obama's birthday on Monday. When you are five-and-a-half, your birthday is the biggest day of the year after Christmas, so you can see how such a mind might assume that President's Day was just an extra special way of saying the President's birthday. Especially when you don't have school.

Birdie's school was also closed, and there was a big snow overnight! Julie had taken the day off and ted decided to work from home rather than slog in through the snow.  So the day held all kinds of promise. In addition to the usual running about in pajamas, underwear, princess costumes, capes, and assorted dress up clothes--just the bambini, Fans!--Julie took them to the open art studio space at Kiddywampus.* Sand art was big again (heightened glue supervision required but not always achieved) as was paint mixing to make different colors. She also took them to Starfoxes because the morning hot chocolate run had netted receipt-coupons for $1 pasteries after 2pm. Needless to say, we did some walking about in the snow which was also good times.

Happy President's Day!

*Local Fans may be interested to know that Kiddywampus is moving to a new space in Hopkins across from the Stages theater at the end of March. They will reopen there April 1. The spaces will be bigger apparently. Their current building--as well as the one next door which houses that fab design collective, Guild, and fun home store, Ciel--is being demolished. !!!!! (Must visit Guild and Ciel soon to find out where they are going.) We are sad we won't be able to walk there anymore, and tried to get excited about more parking.

Turns out, they also host MacPhail music classes there! Not on the weekends (maybe in the supposedly enormous new space?); only during the week. We saw Teacher Cheryl! Do you remember her, Fans?! Holy bonkers did she love Our Birdie. Birdie was entranced by the music class going on. She does love to get down.

Touching the top of the stop sign.

As tall as the stop sign.