Today was the annual Crop Walk we participate in for the church. Alice and Mom skipped out on the early part of the walk because Alice had her ballet recital pictures scheduled for the same time. I was stuck walking with the boys while Mom was able to frantically stuff Alice in her costume, arrange her hair, coo over all the cute little girls in their cute little costumes in Alice’s ballet class, and try to prevent Alice from falling in the outdoor water fixture used as a backdrop for the picture. Oh, cruel fates, why do you do such to me?
Other than that, the walk was mostly uneventful. We had Polynomial with us and she decided she needed to poop about 3 minutes in to the walk. Charles ended up with poop bag duty and carried it around like a little prize for 10 or 20 minutes, but then put it in his backpack.
I didn’t see too much of that because we almost left Charles behind. We I was trying to stay with our group but they are a determined to finish bunch and had forged well ahead while we were waiting for Poly. I thought Charles would get lonely and exert himself to catch up but I was in error. Charles did, however, set a pace that gradually over a long period got him back in our group, just before we hit the first rest stop.
Corwin was supposed to take charge of Poly, but he foisted that off on Mara. I ended up having to walk with Mara because Poly became distressed if she wasn’t able to sniff one of her family every 10 or 20 seconds. Charles and Corwin, being allergic to girl cooties, begged off,
Alice spent most of her time in the stroller, clutching a helium balloon (I snagged on at the start, correctly anticipating that Alice would be insufferable if she saw other children with balloons without having one for herself). At the very end though, when everyone else was tired, she got out of the stroller and bounced around with much energy, just to mock the rest of us. That’s our sweet little girl. She get her leg muscled admired again, although it was just her calves this time. The older girls (Mara and her friends) spent a good time discussing Alice’s best sport choices.
