Ethan:
Dad’s in the city, and while I didn’t wake
up early to see him off; we are always connected – even when he’s far-enough
away that he can’t sense that link the same way that Mom, Cassie, Ehlana, and I
can; so it’s all good – and we’ll see him on Friday when we’re in the city for
the shopping trip and our birthday dinner party.
While we always miss Dad when he’s away, we’ve
also had a busy day. Tai Chi by the
river and breakfast was followed by a morning at the lab for Ehlana and me; and
I was happy to get to spend an entire morning in our archives while Ehlana
played around with the cold cure research in her lab – after getting Uncle Adam
to draw some of my blood to use in that work.
I didn’t have anyone in the archives with me today, but then the access
to the archives is restricted; and Mom, Grandma Eleanor, and Grandpa Grant are
the only Magi likely to be there on a weekday morning anyway. I’d be happy to work in my archives all-day,
every day, but can’t do that and play ‘normal’ kid too; so I worked until
lunchtime; we headed home with Uncle Adam and everyone else at the lab that was
coming over for Violet’s twenty-third birthday luncheon; and then we had fun
with that for an hour or so – including the clean-up once everyone else went
back to work or elsewhere.
Ehlana and I got to go with Cassie and
Michael to pick up Cassie’s car at Landry’s after that; they took us for a
drive out to the whirlpool and back for the first test drive; and then Cassie
took Mom for a drive too while Ehlana and I were set free to hop on our bikes
and go hang out with our friends for the rest of the day. We met up with Naomi and Aiden first; went
biking at the park; hung out at the playground; had ice cream treats at our
house with a small gang of our friends; went for a couple of swims; and then
Mom had four of us for an easy dinner before we Aiden and I went to our ball
practice. Mom, Ehlana, and Naomi came to
watch too – and hang out with the other kids and adults, but it was hot out;
and there wasn’t a big turnout for that.
We came home from that practice; went for
another swim; had an ice cream break; and then Ehlana and I took Silkie for a
bedtime walk that included walking Naomi and Aiden back to their houses. By then, Mom didn’t have to encourage us to
go to bed – Ehlana and I were ready to do that.
We had our usual bedtime chat; I’ve done a bit of light archive reading –
barely eleven-hundred pages; and now I’m ready to get some sleep. There are still three more days and four
nights until our seventh birthday and the trip to the city, but we have a lot
on the go too – including more work at the lab and play time with our friends;
so I’m sure that our first week of summer holidays will continue to be a lot of
fun!
That isn’t really news, since I think we
have fun all of the time, but I’ve had enough fun for today; so it’s time to
put my toys away and get on with a bit of quality nap time!
Ethan – out!
***
Ehlana:
We did not cure the common cold today!
I didn’t actually expect that to happen,
but our tests on the latest extracts from the plants we’re engineering were a
flop; so we’ll hopefully learn from those failures and move on to something
better. That is frustrating, but I am
still only an almost-seven-year-old doctoral student; and still have a lot to
learn even as we’re taking research to a whole new level here in Witch Falls!
Violet’s birthday luncheon went better than
my research this morning; and I’m so glad that they’re home to stay now that
they’re done school – though Dillon may decide to work on his own doctoral
degree part-time while working at the lab.
I don’t think that he needs that piece of paper, but then I’ll be doing
that when I get to officially go to college in about eleven years; so I’ll be
happy to help him out with that if he does decide to do that. Going for a ride in Cassie’s new car after
lunch was really just a cameo bit of fun, but then I’m not sure that I like her
car; since it’s now a daily reminder sitting in our driveway that she’ll be
leaving for college in August. We’ll
always be close, but I’m really going to miss her over the next five years!
That isn’t something I could say about
Miles and a couple of the other guys in our usual group of friends – especially
when they’ve been a bit annoying today while we played and biked at the park,
but their families would likely miss them; so Mom probably won’t let Naomi and
me do anything to them that would make them disappear for a while – like until
after they’re grown up. Miles is scary
now; so I don’t think we want to know what he’ll be like as a teen!
It was hot out today, but we kept cool with
swims and ice cream treats; and had a fun afternoon with our friends – even with
those boy-related annoyances. Ethan and
I had Naomi and Aiden with us for our easy-dinner with Mom before the boys had
their ball practice; Mom, Naomi, and I went along; and we kept ourselves
entertained while Ethan and Aiden played with their team mates for an
hour. I’ll admit that some of that fun
was at the expense of the baseball bloopers, but that’s totally wrong of us –
and still funny all the same.
The swim time back at home and ice cream
treats helped us to cool down; Ethan, Silkie, and I walked Naomi and Aiden home
after that; and then we pretty much came up to bed for the night. I’ve only done a bit of work on my research,
but that’s entirely because I need a bit of time to just think about what we’re
continuing to do right now; so I mostly just reviewed the rest of the projects
we have on the go; made some notes; and offered a few digital suggestions for
two of those projects. I’m not a pushy,
hands-on kind of unofficial head researcher, but I do offer my suggestions
fairly-regularly when I have ideas that I think will help.
The only help I personally need right now,
though, is to sleep on my own research problems; so I guess that’s it for
tonight.
This is Ehlana Proctor; coming to you live
from what is now my past!
