Riding Herd on the Kids, Day 1

With Kathleen in the city for the next three days attending a doll-making workshop being given by Wendy Froud, I’m on kid patrol.

Took Ariel to her morning bowling league while our house keeper (who comes every Saturday, so how’s that for timing) kept an eye on Caroline. Then, as rain poured down, I packed the kids off to go see “Ice Age” at the local multiplex. We had lunch there and then saw the film. Caroline was fairly well behaved after we made it clear to her that she couldn’t go running around in the theater. The film itself was technically superior to the previous one, although once again the story itself was no great shakes (actually the preceding one was better.) But there were enough action set pieces to rivet Caroline’s attention, as well as most of the kids in the fairly packed theater. And, hey, how can you resist a film where Queen Latifah voices a mammoth who’s convinced she’s actually a possum.

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