What's that big lump?

I know I said I wouldn't talk about my personal life, but I have to mention this...I went to that audition this morning that I mentioned I was going to. I got myself up at 6:00am and got there at 7:00am, only to find the door to the theatre locked. So I waited outside in the freeeezing cold for an hour and a half but was so proud of myself because I was 2nd in line!! I signed up 2nd on the non-union list, and at 10:10am they announced that non-unions needed to come back at 2:30pm.

Well crap. I have to pick up W at 2:00pm. There goes my whole morning.

So that's how my day started.

I was really surprised that today W was in a good mood to see me and she actually held my hand as we walked down the street! She didn't complain about not getting a snack from 7-11 today but that's probably because I told her we could get a snack at ballet. She always gets fruit snacks. The blue packet. The ballet studio didn't reek today, thank god. There was this adorable pudgy, blond girl shoving a vanilla cupcake into her mouth, her blue eyes wide as anything I've ever seen, and I couldn't help but grin. What is it about pudgy little girls in leotards and tights that is so cute?

After W's class she got her ritual fruit snacks and I got a bag of wheat thin crisps because I was starving. For the first time, W wanted to stay after and watch the adult class. The "adult" class was really a teenage class, consisting of 2 guys and 1 girl. W kept saying she liked the girl the best. I asked her if she wanted to keep doing ballet until she was as big as them and she said no. I asked her why and she said because she didn't want a boy teacher (the teacher was male). When I asked her if she would keep doing it if she had a girl teacher she said yes. There was a video of a ballet playing in the lobby and W seemed entranced by it, so I asked her if she would want to go to a ballet performance with me and she said yeah. That's my new mission.

I didn't mind staying after because I love watching other people in class and critiquing. Out of the blue, W says, "wait a minute, what's that lump?" referring to the male's bulge in his tights. I pretended that I didn't hear her because I did NOT want to have to explain that. Children say the darndest things....

Maybe my favorite moment of the day: W asked if she could have one of my crackers so I gave her one, and she offered me a fruit snack in exchange which was very generous of her. Then she liked it and wanted another, so we swapped snacks and stood and watched the ballet class, occasionally eating out of the others bag. I don't know why but it felt so comfortable and cute.

Finally, I said we needed to head home because it was getting late. We got a female taxi driver which I think I've had only once before. W leaned in and whispered, "I didn't know there were girl taxi drivers". I laughed out loud for a little while. Then the driver slammed on the brakes and I instinctively put my arm across W's lap. There was an old man standing in between the two lanes of traffic. The driver then mumbles, "stupid, stupid, stupid....old man, stupid driver". W and I got a few giggles out of that one. In the taxi, W said, "can you do me a favor? Can you eat all the blueberry ones?" (referring to her GRAPE fruit snacks). I said, "why? You don't like them?" and she shook her head. So I said "aaaalright" and did her a huge favor and ate all the grape ones :)

When we got home there was no one there...a rarity but a beautiful one. We started on her bead necklace right away which she was making for her mom. Then she wanted to get her watch which her mom had told her a few days prior was in her safe. So W leaves the room and comes back saying she needs help getting her watch. I was unaware that would entail going into her mom's closet, knocking off the papers from her vanity, and reaching high up to get to her safe which didn't even have a code to open it. I was so scared we were going to get caught so I tried to hurry up the process so we could get out of her closet. We didn't find the watch so I told her it was probably getting cleaned. I didn't find the watch but I did find tons of red Cartier boxes in her closet. *sigh* To be able to wear Cartier. There was also a box that was rotating with 2 mens watches and a woman's watch encrusted in diamonds that had a code to open it. My favorite thing of all was the other closet I opened that was racks and racks of sexy shoes. It looked like what Carrie's closet would look like. Just beautiful.

Then W showed me her Swarovski crystal jewelry box. Mm hmm. Swarovski. It was stunning and sparkled in the sunlight that was pouring through her windows.

I made another Starbucks via (I'm really liking it more and more) which made my 3rd coffee of the day. Before I knew it it was bath time and M came home just in time. We had our bath/hair drying routine and then dinner. My dinner was goldfish. Their dinner was asparagus tempura and meatballs with carrots, onions and mushrooms. Guh.

I didn't read to W tonight which was probably for the best because I would have fallen asleep. Instead, I helped M with her homework and listened to her read for 20 minutes, then read HP for 15 minutes instead of the normal 30. That's also for the best because I was nodding off again during the reading of HP. They both had on the cutest pj's tonight: glow-in-the-dark cupids!

Today was another amazingly good day (for the most part) with a lot of laughs involved.

Also, it was a good day because it was the first time I saw the dad make any effort to say hello to his daughters. He came into their room and they walked up to him and he rubbed the tops of their heads. Maybe that's the most affectionate they ever get. Anyway, it was an improvement from what I've seen.

I hugged the girls goodnight and will do it all again tomorrow...minus the waking up at 6am part.