Laughs, tears

Tonight we read chapters 13 & 14 of Alfred Hitchcock & The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Fiery Eye. Sebastian loves this series, but the more spooky-seeming books are a little too scary for him, at least at bedtime; so we're sticking to the straight-out mysteries (of course even the spooky ones have mundane explanations).

At one point, the boys were trapped by gangsters. Some of the gang was away, and the two groups were communicating by walkie-talkies. The gang leader "barked" commands into the walkie-talkie. I couldn't resist immediately following up with "Woof, woof!". Sebastian laughed so hard he fell out of bed, and I laughed too.

But he was sad today, because tomorrow is his last day at summer camp at Wee Folk. He loves it there so much! But next week he's going to Armenian camp in Watertown - it's a day camp, he'll be sleeping over at my parents' place - and the week after that, Wee Folk is totally booked up. He begged us to get him more time at Wee Folk, but all we could do was promise to see if we could get him on a waiting list for the following week, on the off chance that there will be some cancellations.

Laughs, tears

Tonight we read chapters 13 & 14 of Alfred Hitchcock & The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Fiery Eye. Sebastian loves this series, but the more spooky-seeming books are a little too scary for him, at least at bedtime; so we're sticking to the straight-out mysteries (of course even the spooky ones have mundane explanations).

At one point, the boys were trapped by gangsters. Some of the gang was away, and the two groups were communicating by walkie-talkies. The gang leader "barked" commands into the walkie-talkie. I couldn't resist immediately following up with "Woof, woof!". Sebastian laughed so hard he fell out of bed, and I laughed too.

But he was sad today, because tomorrow is his last day at summer camp at Wee Folk. He loves it there so much! But next week he's going to Armenian camp in Watertown - it's a day camp, he'll be sleeping over at my parents' place - and the week after that, Wee Folk is totally booked up. He begged us to get him more time at Wee Folk, but all we could do was promise to see if we could get him on a waiting list for the following week, on the off chance that there will be some cancellations.