friends, food, FHE

 Today we have Maggie and Daniel spending the day with us.  The kids were pretty excited, and I don't mind at all having friends over.  It is interesting to me how they play.  Ethan and Daniel play soccer.  All day.  Or watch it.  I have to step in only to hand out band aids and Gatorade.

update: E informs me that while they did play some soccer Daniel does not like to play it all day?? so they had to supplement with other things.  In any case they were low maintenance.

Maggs and Lu however are a different story.  They play by getting out lots of stuff and "setting it up".  I have to intervene to settle things like who gets to wear the mermaid fin first, who gets to the be the queen, teacher, mom, princess, star, shop keeper, maker of the rules, picker of the games.  They mostly play well together but there is always tons to clean up after and refereeing during.

We've had dinner company this week.  Sunday evening we shared our break the fast dinner with the elders.  Very fun.
Monday night we invited our next door neighbors over for FHE and dinner.  It was also a pleasant evening.  We ate, had a little lesson then played Disney headbandz. 
Bonus is that R liked dinner both nights and I got lots of compliments.