more from DC

July 18
Griffin and Sophia are signed up for soccer in the mornings with the "legendary" Coach David.  Having met him, I have to admit that he really is something special.  I pick Sophia and Griffin up at 12.  On Monday and Tuesday of this week, the plan is to go home and Griffin's friend Griffith will join us at about 12:30.  Griffith is not in the soccer camp this week.

Everything went well with the pickup and Griffith arriving at the house.  We all had lunch together.





This picture shows Sophia walking home.  She was not really walking alone, of course.  Our house is the light-colored one.  When we got home, we had a good afternoon, which included building some Harry Potter-inspired buildings.  There was a lot of cooperation in the effort and it paid off in big feelings of accomplishment.

Here's another picture of the builders:

Go team hogwarth construction!



We went to La Plaza for dinner that night and had a great Mexican/Salvadoran meal, but I didn't take any pictures.

July 19

Essentially, the same routine as yesterday.  After the pickup at soccer camp, Sophia and I worked on some labyrinth drawings, but they became pretty complicated.  The boys are into a Wii game involving Harry Potter.  We did more work on the Harry Potter "scene," but I didn't take pictures.   There was a popsicle break on the front porch.  Sophia and Griffin were on the front porch and Griffith was on the back porch.  Griffith was so fast that I didn't get a picture of him.  Here;s Griffin and Sophia:

In this picture, Griffin has on some great tie-dye soccer socks...Sophia has the shoes on the wrong feet.  Louisa and I have been talking about this.  It should be 50/50 that she gets it right...but it is more like 20/80, meaning she mostly gets it on the wrong foot.  Why is that?





 It was Tuesday, so we went to Mr. Henrys for dinner.









Griffin watched the movies.  Sophia had a lot of fun with her friends, including hiding under the table.

This was my last visit (on this trip) to Mr. Henry's, so I wanted a picture of me and Sophia.

I'm headed back to Portland on Saturday, but this has been a lot of fun...memories to treasure...and we have this blog to document it.  How nice is that?