Too Bad it's Not Valentine's Day

Laurel was showing signs of getting sick yesterday, so she stayed home from school and Bryce went off on his own. Sue, Laurel and I hung out at the house for the morning, and in the afternoon I walked down to meet Bryce at the bus stop while Sue and Laurel went to the Mercado to do some shopping.

Our Waldorf school is doing a play in a couple of weeks, and the kids need some sort of Mexi-Amish clothing for the performance. Laurel got her duds today - a red skirt and Mexican style floral top - and she looks awesome in them. Especially with her new stylin' haircut.

Bryce and I had a nice boys afternoon. We ate comida at La Grotta, got some ice cream at the Jardin, then did a little shopping ourselves at the Mercado. Bryce loves to shop, so the fact that Laurel was sick gave him a perfect excuse to buy something for her.

Bryce broke a pair of sunglasses yesterday, so we got a new pair for him - about $3. For Laurel and Mommy, we bought a dozen roses. As I rarely spend more than $15 or so for flowers, I had no idea what to pay for roses, but 50 pesos seemed reasonable. When we presented them to Sue and Laurel, they were impressed. But Sue was even more impressed that twelve roses cost about $3.80.


Roses

I think we'll be doing a lot more flower shopping.