Saturday, April 12

A nice quiet Saturday. I went out this morning to get Easter candy and drop off a return. Greta and I played Othello. After lunch, the kids and I walked down to Ebisu to get a birthday present for one of Greta's friends. We then watched two episodes of Lost. Greta was in tears for part of the day after finishing Fearless. I cried after finishing Raising Hare. Lucia didn't cry at all but hasn't gotten very far in Fearless yet, so perhaps there will be tears from her tomorrow. 

Beth brought over dinner for us. I couldn't convince the kids to watch more Lost after we ate because they had a new project to work on: Yesterday Lucia had the idea to order baseball-card albums to organize and preserve all their stickers, and they arrived in the evening; so they spent a lot of time doing that. Lucia also spent some time trying to convince Greta to let her organize her (Greta's) bookshelves and dresser top, but Greta could not be convinced. Organizing things and creating appealing setups of tiny things in meticulous categories has been Lucia's forte since she was a toddler; she'd just finished doing her own shelves and dresser and was itching to do more.