1. I needed to take the car back in to the body shop because when they fixed it after the neighbor backed into it, they hadn't completed the pinstripes along the driver's side and the inside door handle cover was missing. The kids did ok in the waiting room for an hour. Alice read and Simon and I played tic-tac-toe and he did sentences in his notebook.
2. Go to the mall to return a blouse. The mall errand should have been quick, but the kids got distracted in a kids jewelry shop for a while, and we also stopped to play at the play place (except Alice felt she was too old, so she sat by me and read instead of playing). On the way out we got some pictures with Garfield. Again, at first Alice felt she was too old to sit in the car, but then she succumbed to temptation. It's funny/terrible how she's becoming self-conscious about some things.
3. Return books to the library and get a new stash. Alice does great at the library--she gets a bunch of graphic novels, then goes and sits in a corner and reads one. Meanwhile, Simon pulls random books off the shelves and insists insanely stubbornly that he must have them. Then at home, he shows zero interest in reading them. It's great fun.
