Our Father's Day

We had a very nice Father's Day. Ellie woke me up and we went and got cards and presents for Greg. Ellie wanted to get him a stuffed kitty so we went to Safeway, where they have a little display of stuffed animals. They had kitties for $15 and stuffed bears for $6, so I grabbed a bear with a pink nose and declared it was a kitty. It did look like it could have been a kitty. Ellie was pretty convinced it was a bear, but I said no, I was positive it was a cat.

We brought everything home and Ellie wrote out her own card to Daddy and we set up the balloon and cards and bearcat and some coffee and donuts (because it was a special day) on the table. Then we woke Greg up and he came out and of course he loved everything. Then we ran around cleaning the place until it was spotless for our open house. Then we headed out to lunch and on the way Ellie bit the fleshy part around her thumbs, saying owww owww oww while she was doing it, until she had big, huge teeth marks in her hand. Then she showed us the teeth marks she made because she's insane. We went to a little place in Lafayette with an outdoor patio. Of course there were a bunch of people on the patio with their dogs, so just walking across the patio took 20 minutes. It went like this:

Walk four feet.
Stop.
"Can I pet your dog?"
"Sure!"
Pet pet pet.
"Thank you!"
"You're welcome!"
Walk four feet.
Stop.
"Can I pet your dog?"
"Sure!"
Pet pet pet.
"Thank you!"
"You're welcome!"
Walk four feet.
Stop.
"Can I pet your dog?"

Like that for every. single. dog.

Then we went to a park in Orinda and hung out and called people to wish Happy Father's Day and played that we were a royal family who was being chased through the woods and were swordfighting and walked across the whole play structure without touching the ground and had spit fights with water from the drinking fountain and just ran around. Then we went to Walnut Creek and got ice cream, which was huge but Ellie ate her whole entire enormous scoop and then we went home and learned magic card tricks. Then Ellie went to bed but she was pretty riled up so it took a long time for her to get to sleep.