Sing alongs

I love Saturdays. They always have so much promise.

I had planned to take AWB swimming this morning. It was hot and it seemed like the right thing to do. We do pay for Y membership and since late August, we really haven't been. The outside pool has leaves. And once in September we went and the water was freezing--a few days of cold can make an outside pool's water too cold for swimming. Refreshing is what the receptionist told me. I laughed out loud.

So today, I persuaded HKB to go with me to the StellaBella Sing along in Inman Square and visit our old house and the new park and have lunch at the sandwich shop in the Square.

I thought the park was fine. No water and plenty of sand. But it was hot and there wasn't much of a slide or things to climb on. So I recommended leaving for the store and the sing along.

It was a great sing along! The woman had a keyboard and it was packed. HKB left 30 minutes into it but AWB warmed up toward the end.

We sang together later in the day. And she knew most of the words. They were garbled but she could sing along with me. I also spoke with her in Chinese to tell her to take a bath and she understood that too. No nap today though and so when we told her to put away her markers and go upstairs, she flipped out a bit.

I read the New Yorker today. I haven't done that in such a long time. We went out afterwards to blow bubbles and then we went to the park. It was a good day!