Dinner and a Movie!

Grace did her own school for 3.5 hours yesterday, as she often does, without me saying a word. Did I mention this is Christmas break? :D
Well we also went out yesterday afternoon to shop for some christmas presents, and Grace was a great help! She really does have an eye for locating pretty items! She indicated things like "color, tone and balance" while looking for the perfect thing;)
Then we met and had a great time with Ami, Mariposa and Mr. M! We met at the bookstore, and Grace indulged a new passion of consuming Ted Geisel books. ( That's Dr. Seuss books, for those who don't know Ted) She was never into these when she was a baby or toddler, and I tried to "introduce" them, because I have a set of signed copies of many of the books. My Grandmother had them signed at Marshall Fields in Chicago, years ago, as she was the manager of the Children's Department! I loved the cute "on the fly" illustrations he would draw for the signings. Grace apparently does now too, because she includes them in her reading binges. :) She just loves the innocent humor and far-flung illustrations:) She also picked up the Nutcracker, the newest Spiderwick book and The Wicked History of the World (History with the bad parts left in...) to look at:)

We moved on from the bookstore to eat dinner, which was good! I had the salad-that-ate-Texas...and so did Ami, and Mariposa, and Mr. M! LOL! We all had a little piece of it, It was so big:) And *I* thought I was being good, getting a salad.

Then, Mariposa, Ami, Grace and I all went to see "Enchanted", and the guys went to see "I am Legend". Both were great, according to the viewers, and the girls asked for copies of the movie when it comes out on DVD. I'm ok with that;)

Forte