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Green = Steve | George = navy | Janet = Purple | Evelyn = Black

8/22/09 (Saturday)

Thursday night Evie and I had a late appointment and Grandmama came up to babysit for us. The child was suitably thrilled. Friday night I took Cara to Chuck E Cheese, where I saw my child for the first time that I can remember play air guitar. Rather than spend a lot of time up in the tubes, she would take her shoes off, climb up there, slide down, and put her shoes back on to go do something else. This happened about three times. Cara was a little disappointed that the "real" Chuck E (the employee dressed in a Chuck E suit) did not come out--there were no big birthday parties happening that night, so he did not appear.

Today we will probably be packing and preparing all day for our week-long visit to North Carolina with my parents, my brother, his wife and all the dogs. It will be an extended period with no journal!

One milestone that has occurred recently that we may not have mentioned in the journal: we just took the back off of Cara's car seat. Now it is just a little booster with cup holders. She will have time to really get used to it on our long car trip to NC. Last year we set her up with a borrowed portable DVD player in the back seat. This year we are going to try to make it without movies. But we have car bingo!

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