The boys have tomorrow, Friday, and Monday off from school, so they had their Valentine’s Day party today. Mom went to help out with Charles’ class, Corwin not being quite as appreciate at having a parent hang about. Mom said there were lots of little activities, but Charles spent most of his time at the food table, working up a major sugar rush. Mom’s solution to this was to take him out on a long walk around the park. There was much crying and wailing, which seemed to work off a lot of energy. For the first half mile or so, Charles lagged back as far as he could without losing sight of us (too much). Eventually, though, the emotional distorting excess energy was dissipated by his vocalizations and he was actually in a good mood by the time we made it back to the house.