Part 2 of my post from yesterday: After we got out of Starbucks, we headed home and then on to the monthly meeting of our chavurah at our friend Marc's house in Lake Oswego. Rachel immediately fell in with Marc's two daughters, Lucy and Zoey (Lucy is a few years older than Rachel), and they really seemed delighted to let her hang out with them. I can't say for sure, of course: Rachel disappeared with all the rest of the kids upstairs. Perhaps they were playing video games, or watching unsuitable movies, or smoking pot, or plotting a world revolution. We really don't know.
The theme was Chinese food, although everyone oohed and aahed when I set down my chocolate silk pie, whipped cream and cocoa -- and before we cut into it Rachel insisted on making an announcement. "Ladeez and...gentlemen!" she bellowed as only a 4-year-old girl can. "This pie is by...Mommy!" Whereupon all the kids set upon me like a pack of starving coyotes (you'd think their parents never fed them), and all the adults were left with was three tiny pieces. Sigh...all that work and so little left. Next time I'll bring two.
Toward the end of the evening we played "Super Dreidel," Marc's insanely complicated version of the dreidel game, and Drew said Rachel quickly cleaned up. Not sure how she bested the other kids; they probably let her win.
Anyway...it was a fun and fabulous evening, and a lovely end to a lovely holiday.
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