Happy 2nd birthday, Jayden!
He wasn’t particularly interested in the phone call with us
this morning, but Jaimie and Kaitlyn entertained us for a while before we sat
down to have breakfast; and it sounded like they were having a good morning and
start to their little brother’s big day.
That helped to make for a fun start to the day, and the
ongoing entertainment from the pajama pants boys at school helped to offset the
continuing empathic problems I’m having whenever I’m anywhere near either
Michael or Lisa. They were ‘together’
today, particularly when they were hanging out with the couples club at lunch;
but then they weren’t really together either.
There were more than a few tweeird moments today too, with
the first being just about everything surrounding gym class. Maybe I was just oblivious on Monday, but
Rowen and I definitely noticed that we were getting second and third looks from
the other girls in the locker room while getting changed before and after
class; and we were getting some attention from the boys during class too. That’s right, the new underwear change
apparently affects nearly every aspect of our lives; and while Rowen is as shy
as always at school, and especially in the locker room; I know that she’s secretly
thrilled by the attention. I’m mostly
just weirded out by all of it.
Since we’re going there now anyway, I’ll also mention that
there is some weirdness at home too; though that’s all entirely my
problem. Seeing Mom’s bras drying in the
laundry room has never bothered me. My
training bras were dryer-safe; and not a problem. Now that my new bras need to be hand-washed
and hung to dry; I’m a little freaked out about having my underwear on semi-public
display. I’m sure I’ll get used to it,
but not anytime soon; and I’ve suddenly become extremely conscientious about
getting my clean laundry up to my room and put away.
Getting back on topic, the extra attention made gym class
totally tweeird, and that affected me enough that I hit four three-point baskets
in a row before Rowen nudged me and whispered a reminder that we weren’t
playing in the WNBA; and the last thing I’d wanted right then was more
attention from either the boys or girls.
Tweeird Zone moment number two, if you’re counting by overall scenes,
came during music class. Today, Michael
was wearing hospital scrub-style pajama pants, and we both found out that they
are very thin compared to the jeans or khakis he usually wears; the contact
between us while we were playing our saxophones had an effect on him; and those
hospital scrubs are not capable of hiding the observable reactions, if you
catch my drift. For once, I was one of
the first students out of that class; and he was one of the last after
apparently needing to fix a couple of things before putting his, um, instrument
away. I know, but that was the joke
Rowen whispered to me when she caught up to me, and while I was a bit mortified
that she’d noticed too; we were both laughing about it – that – the joke! – for
the rest of the afternoon.
While it was an after-school play day, our first order of
business once we’d been set free from Spanish class was to head over to the
salon for the Easter hair appointments our Moms had booked for us with Liz. Vicky and Liz were booked solid pretty much
all week, so Liz didn’t have time to play with our hair like she does
sometimes, but while I just went with getting my bangs trimmed and less than an
inch off the back to even things up; Rowen let Liz change up her hair style a
bit, and they used up the extra time that I hadn’t needed to do that. They were both happy with the results, and I
think Rowen’s new look is awesome.
We were just getting ready to head home from the salon when
tweeird scene number three popped up; though this time, it was Rowen who
entered the tweeird zone while I was just there to witness it. ‘Tommy’ walked into the shop with his
girlfriend while we were paying our bill.
They both did a double-take when they saw Rowen, though Tommy managed to
recover from the wide-eyed open-mouthed reaction before it was noticed by the
wrong girl; and he dodged some potential tween trouble of his own. The little chat we had with them before
leaving was awkward, and Rowen had gone into full shy mode, but once we were
out of sight of the salon windows; I hugged her enthusiastically, and she did a
little happy dance before we hurried home to get our homework done and
hopefully still have a little time to play before dinner.
We ended up just hanging out in the lounge and my room, and
after getting our homework done; we played a little music, and had a little
telepathic chat with Ethan and Ehlana while Mom was busy. The rest of the evening has been fairly
quiet. Mom did separate Magi lessons –
one with Ethan and Ehlana while Dad and I took care of the kitchen clean-up;
and mine right after that while the twins played with their science lab on the
conference table in the office. It was a
full bath and bed routine night for them, and I helped Mom with that; spent
some quality time in my Jacuzzi once they were tucked in; and buzzed through my
language and archive studies with a little time-phase help. I made an exception for that tonight mostly
because I feel the need for more than four or five hours of sleep. We only have one more school day before the
Easter weekend, and even though we aren’t going to have a house full of guests;
we still have a lot going on just with the extra church services and family
fun.
I probably shouldn’t waste any of that extra nap time, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
