Graduation Season

It’s graduation season.   We’ve got friends and family members graduating this year and we’re going to multiple parties.   And who doesn’t love a celebration party?   We went to one this afternoon, getting the children out of camp an hour early so we could make the festivities.

The party was at for the third child, and third sitter, who are friends of ours in the neighborhood.   I remember when they had just moved in to the neighborhood.  Kate, the mother, came over with her daughter to introduce themselves and to say that Morgan was interested in sitting if we had a need.   And we definitely had a need.

Hannah, their oldest, is finished with college now but we were very happy to see her, up for her brother’s graduation weekend.   Morgan, our children’s favorite sitter for multiple years, is finishing her second year in college and now their son, Tristan, has graduated from high school and is off to college in the fall.

Tristan loves video games and my son clearly thinks he’s about the coolest sitter in the world as a result.    We got to the party late, but we also left late after finally finding my children in the attic playing Disney Infinity on the Xbox, hiding away from the adults.   My children were trying to monopolize as much of Morgan’s time as they could because she’s not here for the first time this summer, having taken an internship out of state.

Tristan will be around this summer, but it may be some of the last times we’ll get to have him sit for us before he goes to college in the fall.

The Big Boy Update:   My son went to rock climbing day camp for the holiday day today.   His sister went too and is a veteran of camp there as she’s done track-out full week camp as well as some single day camps.   I was a little worried he would be unhappy about his skill level versus hers.   When I left them this morning he looked a little anxious.   When we picked them up this afternoon he told us all about the day and how he liked climbing.  He didn’t have any troubles getting to the top of the various easy and hard routes and had an overall positive experience.   He wanted to know if we could sign him up for a week class like his sister.   He wants to get a t-shirt like his sister, which she told him he would get if he went to camp after he commented about it.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  At the graduation party this afternoon my daughter wanted to do crafts at the house the party was held at.   All three children (who have all sat for our children) and their parents have great ideas and have done lots of crafts with the children before.   It was hard to get her to understand that it wasn’t the best time to do crafts because there was a celebration going on.    They all spent some time with her and at the end lots of pipe cleaner creations had been made.