One on One

Last Wednesday was Dad's Night at the kids' preschool. Claire, Cameron, and I were all looking forward to it. Sadly, Cameron picked up a bug over Memorial Day weekend, which gave him a fever in the low 100s and a ticket to stay home. He was understandably upset.

And so I found myself with but one twin at Dad's Night this year. Claire missed Cam but we had a fun time stringing bead necklaces and hammering random pieces of wood together. One of the activities was "Give Your Dad A Shave." Sounds scary, doesn't it?

Luckily, the popsicle stick was fairly dull.

Since Cam had to miss the Dad's Night festivities, I told him that we would go do something together this weekend. He chose to go bowling.

We had a good time, although he didn't break 100 like the last time. (Those bumper rails are helpful, but not quite that helpful.) We followed that up with stops at "King Burger" (his name) for lunch and the hardware store for sprinkler parts, soil amendments, and ladybugs.

It was good to have some time to give each of them my full attention.

(The ladybugs were supposed to help control a whitefly problem we're having in the back yard. Most of them did not avail themselves of the cornucopia of bugs available, choosing instead to "fly away home." Oh well - it was worth a shot.)