We had a playdate today. Two Toddlers, One Dog, Their Moms and Their Grandmas.

In other words, Kat, Alex, Chappy, Risa, me, Ronnie (Risa’s mom) and Joan (my Mom).

And boy, did we have fun! It took about 10 minutes for Alex to warm up to Chappy (well, Chappy does insist on barking hello very loudly, and that’s kind of intimidating when you’re only a couple of feet tall). But within 15 minutes, the kids were playing (”Jumpy! Jumpy!”) and Chappy was either following them around (did I mention I gave them each a box of animal crackers?), or staying over by us adults, where his paws were safer. He really did get quite a few animal crackers, though . . . toward the end, both Kat and Alex were dropping them into his food dish, and how could any self-respecting dog not love that?

It was a really nice visit, and our Moms got along really nicely, too, which is a plus . . . though Risa and I both thought it might have been a mistake getting them together when they started telling potty-training stories. Still, at least they liked each other, right?

And look at the nice holiday present (Christmas? Hannukah? I’m not exactly sure, but does it really matter?) Risa gave me. A book of knitting patterns for dogs, packaged with a pair of needles with little dogs on top. Chappy glanced at it, but frankly, after helping monkey-wrangle, he hasn’t done much since they left other than sleep. (Poor, tired, little boy . . . so many animal crackers to clean up!)

Otherwise, about the only thing I did today was run out to buy some grommets for my knitted tote bag–which is done except for the final assembly. I was going to work on it this afternoon before Risa came, but got involved in my book, so sat and read most of the day instead of being constructive. Oh well! I’ll try to get to that tomorrow. It’s not a complicated assembly process, but I want to be able to focus.

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