Yesterday, we went out to Weber's Cider Mill farm with Ruth and some of the other families from her Y class (note to self: if you want to make a killing, have the only pick-your-own apple place inside the Beltway). Lots of fun was had - Ruth spent much of the day running at top speed toward or away from one of her friends, shouting "NURRRRRRYYYYY" (the poor kid's name is Larry, but when I try to correct Ruth, she says, "I think his name is Nurry.") or "ADEEEEEEEEYYYYYY." We also went down the slides a few times, ate a dozen cider donuts, Ruth wolfed down M's lunch again, and everybody danced (except M).
Ruth and Nurry just finished dancing to a song the band was playing. I wasn't quite fast enough with the camera phone to catch them dancing.
Ruth and Larry running through the struts for the fake gold-prospecting set-up.
L to R is Ruth, Addy, and Larry (I don't know who the blonde kid in the background is). Khadim was also there, but I don't seem to have any photos with him in them.
It was also fun to meet some of the other parents. Turns out they have a lot in common with M - Addy's Mom works for EEOC, and her dad is a lawyer with the SSA. We also found out the source of the plaintive "Larry's not here anymore" that we got a couple times from Ruth the past week - he'd been in Puerto Rico with his parents (his Mom's from there). I want to say that Khadim's Mom also did something health-related, but I'm blanking now. Anyway - it's nice to meet some other parents, even if M and I have so far not had much luck converting "parent friends" into friends we see outside of our kids interacting. Kamil's mom and I had discussed W. African politics at the park the other day - she's from Nigeria, but a doctor at JHU now - and she was one of the organizers of the outing, but they didn't show up. Oh well.
I do have some more photos, but I can't find the camera right now (these are from my phone) - I hope I didn't leave it at the farm - so they'll have to go up later.
