Since we spent most of Friday waiting for the heater to be repaired, we didn’t go to the Navy Pier as we originally planned. However, the weather was great, so I insisted on going outside at least for a little bit.
It was a challenge to drag Nadia out one more time in the afternoon, after the repair was completed. She is deeply in the Harry Potter book (book five, I believe), and I remember how Vlad and Anna used to become non-responsive when each next book was released. Finally, we negotiated drawing with the chalk in the courtyard.
We collected some fall leaves when we were outside, and I showed the girls how to dry the leaves with an iron and use them for decorations. Then, Kira decorated my fireplace 🙂
I should have mentioned that she asked me on Friday where my fall decorations were. I told her that I was away and hadn’t decorated for Halloween, and she insisted on going to the storage and bringing the fall decorations up. Then, she went around the house, finding a place for each piece.
We spent the entire day on Saturday at the Art Institute. There was a Family Day, and even more activities than usual.
On Sunday, the girls asked to go to the “museum with dinosaurs,” so it was one more whole-day museum trip. We spent more than five hours there, and I was definitely more tired than them!
It was a very cold day, a huge contrast with Friday. We had breakfast at Charmers’ and the girls got hot chocolate, and were super-excited to see the patterns on top:
When John came to pick them up, he told me that six inches of snow were expected that night. And even as cold as it was, I could not believe him, but he was right:
And to think that my last trip to the beach was on October 16!
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