Sunday, 3/20/2011

Our good friends Melissa and Dave invited us to join them and their daughter, Lucia, for a playground play date and dinner this afternoon.  We were pleased to have an open schedule so that we could take them up on their invitation!  Katie had her first big playground fall today.  She was swinging on a big kid swing and took her hand off the chain so that she could turn to see her daddy.  That was the exact moment I reached in to push her again.  Yes, I pushed her right off the swing.  She screamed and cried hard, but was back on the swing just a few minutes later. She seems to be just fine. She was laughing and playing in no time and ate a big dinner.  Thank God she wasn't hurt.  I think she was just startled and surprised by the fall.  We are actually really thankful for the flexible rubber mat under the swing set that absorbed much of the fall.

After the playground, we went to Angelina's Trattoria for dinner.  It was our first time there.  What good food!  We started with two orders of fried mozzarella.  YUM!  I can't remember the last time I had that dish.  For the main course, I had chicken parmesan with garlic penne noodles, Ben had chicken piccata, and Katie had a cheese pizza.  Melissa had the lasagna, Dave had chicken cannelloni, and Lucia had spaghetti with meatballs.  The girls got small scoops of ice cream with their kids meals.  It is safe to say that they are big fans of ice cream.  While slow to eat it, they both finished no problem with big smiles:)