This was the last weekend we will sleep in Cordillera (actually we slwpt there the next weekend but without Max). We’ll spend one or two more there but without beds, I’m not sure where or how we’ll sleep. Max will only be there one more weekend.

Here are some memories of it:

  1. Me, Max, and Elliot playing on the master bed. Max was hiding under the blankets from Elliot. I would pick up Elliot and hurl him from sky, like a dive-bombing baby, onto Max under the blanket. Elliot and I would peel back the blanket, exposing the hiding Max, who would beg for mercy. But we didn’t listen. We’d attack and punch him with sound effects. Elliot squealed with delight. Max laughed and also squealed and screamed. Repeat 20-30 times 🙂
  2. Max and I saw Taylor at the Athletic Center. She is the young woman babysitting Elliot while Karolina packs the Cordillera House. She had the nicest story to tell.She says she’s 24 and does not want a baby until she’s at least 30. The other days she took Elliot to Eagle, where she lives with her boyfriend. They both went with Elliot to he library and the playground. Elliot and her boyfriend apparently got along very well. Afterwards, her boyfriend said, “I think I want 5 kids. And I don’t want to wait until you’re 30.” They both adore Elliot!
  3. Sushi in the Sukkah at Rabbi Dovid and Doba’s house. We did this last year or the year before, too. But we have not seen them since Elliot’s briss, almost 18 months ago. Chava is older looking and so are the boys. Talking with newly-wed Sophie about Lilly and the quality of education at VMS and Colorado.A woman approached Karolina and said, “I just love your outfit. The skulls, the cat shoes, the jacket… everything.” She raved more about it, I jus dont remember all the details — I got hung up on “skulls and cats”. That is my kind of woman 🙂
  4. Going to the Athletic Center with Max one final time. We made up games in the pool… throwing small floats at each other; you get a point if you splash the other person but lose a point if you hit him or the float is thrown outside the pool. We played “Super Dodge Ball” in the racquetball court — giant exercise balls hurled at each other. I think that’s the last time we’ll play that since we have no where else to do it.

5. Watching Weird Al’s UHF movie with Max for the first time (in bed together on a Saturday night, my favorite).

6. Shopping at Home Depot. Max pushing Elliot around in a race car / shopping cart. They spent probably an hour in the Halloween section while we explored flooring options for the new house.

7. Repairing the garage light with a 6 dollar glue gun; the electrician wants 175.

8. Elliot wearing Max’s cowboy hat and strumming the 6-string guitar, just like a cowboy.

9. Max reminded me of something he asked about this past Summer. We were watching Stranger Things Season 3, which takes place in the 1980s:

Max: “Why is that woman wearing pink stuff on her eyes?

(A woman was wearing eye shadow).

I explained it and told him it’s not in style anymore. Tonight, he said that Mrs. Welch at school (5th grade) wears that “strange eye paint” and will it come back in style someday?