This year, Veteran’s Day fell on a Friday, so I didn’t have to burn vacation for it.
Dave brought Peyton to me the night before so I could extend my sleep, while he slept downstairs as he had an early tee time. But, it failed, as he forgot something and woke us up at 615 am before he left. Peyton never went back to sleep, and thus began an early morning. I kept her quiet enough until Brandon woke up, 12 hours after he’d fallen asleep. I think he’s hit a growth spurt, or he is reading under his covers. I did check the night before, and I did not observe any signs of life. But he likes to sleep with the cover over his head, so I’ll never know what really happened. We woke up and made pumpkin pancakes. I did a little fractional math, as we were doubling the recipe. Most of it was easy to double, but it was an exercise for both of them. They helped measure and mix up the ingredients, then both made their own pancakes. Each of them enjoyed them thoroughly, and then piano was practiced before we headed out to the park. This is our fourth or fifth year running now, at least. We sat in our favorite spot, on the wall. Both kids had books to keep them entertained. We got there about an hour before, and I wanted to go return our library books. I presented Brandon with the dilemma that if we returned the books, it would be about 20 minutes round trip, and we may risk our favorite spot as well as a parking spot farther away. Brandon asked me, “Why would we do that? Let’s just wait!” So we waited almost an hour. They kept each other pretty well entertained with minimal intervention on my part. Soon, the ceremony started. This is the 10th anniversary of the program. It was most solemn as the mother of one of the victims spoke with her story, sometimes through tears. The two kids were respectful and gave their attention to the speakers. The program lasted about an hour and a half. I saw Dave come up just as the ceremony was starting, and he stood behind us through a few rows of people for the remainder of the ceremony. I didn’t want to tell the kids, otherwise, they would come unglued. They kept it together until the end, and then I walked back to Dave. We walked over to lunch, as we have after every ceremony. This is the first Dave has ever been to. We saw something a bit different. Last year, the flags were held in a stand, but the wind knocked them over and then the color guard ended up standing watch through the rest of the ceremony. This year, the color guard stood at attention to hold the flags. But, the flag and the color guard fell down! We couldn’t see the second color guard woman, but suddenly, we saw the man, trying to hold up his flag, her flag and her! Luckily, the fire and paramedics and other first responders were on the scene (generally for the veterans!). She fell to the ground on top of grass, detail that didn’t get past Brandon. It took a few minutes but they carried her off, with a clap. I was guessing to the kids what it could have been – low blood pressure. Low blood sugar. They did change out the posts every 15 minutes or so; we were watching that, too, as relief would come with a shoulder tap. The kids had brunch and enjoyed their eggs and sausage. I did tell them no pancakes, since we had them earlier in the morning.
We went home and they got to play on their own for a bit. Dave had ordered food in, while we watched UCLA basketball play.
This morning, we did piano, and then we took the kids to swim at an indoor gym down south. I did some treadmill, while Dave watched them in the water. There was a big slide, which they took turns going up and down. Dave figured they did it at least 20 times each, getting lots of exercise going up the flights of stairs. An hour later, he called me back to help shower them up. We then went to eat BBQ before going to the outlets to shop some more. We stopped by the bass pro shops. It was our first time there! But bad timing as it was Santa’s first stop for the season. It was super crowded. But we did get some hot cocoa and chocolate chip cookies.
Here are the pictures:
Boat chairs.
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Super tired. And then woke up with neck pain! 
Nap on the way down 
She stole my blanket.
Pumpkin-shaped pumpkin pancake. 
