Roller Party
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Yesterday was Laila's birthday party, and ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee had decided long ago that she was going to give Laila a roller skating party since Laila had been asking about roller skating for a while. The only problem is that there are no roller rinks at all on the north side, but she did manage to find one--Martin Luther King Jr. Entertainment Center on 76th street. So sashagee sent out invitations, a couple of her classmates responded (not as many as we were hoping for bit a few), and we drove out there with Papa and Nana at around 11:30 a.m.
Laila had a good time! She got to see her Uncletheshortlifeofaman--and, more importantly, get her plush Foxy back after Foxy spent a long time away on a world trip and a rejuvenating spa session (aka, we can't find the original plush but theshortlifeofaman found another one on sale somewhere)--and theshortlifeofaman's girlfriend omfg_its_chels, who's an atual roller derby girl and thus the most qualified of anyone to skate; hang out with a couple of her classmates; and skate! Laila didn't actually do that much skating, because this was literally the first time she had ever skated before, but she put on her roller skates and her Grandpa took her out with one of the pipe hand-hold frames that the center provided. She didn't do much skating, but she did more than one of her classmates (whose parents just could not convince him to get out on the rink). And now she's talking about how much she wants to go skating, and sashagee has her own skates so they can go skating together. In the summer there are some park districts that open family skating, including a couple right by my work. They could go skating and we could all go to lunch together.
We did get some sad news that one of Laila's classmates, whose birthday we went to a few months ago, isn't going to Laila's neighborhood school next year because they live outside the district and so they didn't get in--Chicago works basically like Japanese schools, where you can apply to go to any school in the district you want to. They're going to keep trying but they won't be classmates together next year.
Grandpa trying to show Laila how to skate.
Laila's birthday cake! It was a tres leches cake.
Final note: It's true that her birthday was almost a month ago but we had to wait until she got the all-clear after her surgery to perform physical activity, and then we had to have enough lead time
sashagee had decided long ago that she was going to give Laila a roller skating party since Laila had been asking about roller skating for a while. The only problem is that there are no roller rinks at all on the north side, but she did manage to find one--Martin Luther King Jr. Entertainment Center on 76th street. So sashagee sent out invitations, a couple of her classmates responded (not as many as we were hoping for bit a few), and we drove out there with Papa and Nana at around 11:30 a.m.Laila had a good time! She got to see her Uncle
theshortlifeofaman--and, more importantly, get her plush Foxy back after Foxy spent a long time away on a world trip and a rejuvenating spa session (aka, we can't find the original plush but theshortlifeofaman found another one on sale somewhere)--and theshortlifeofaman's girlfriend omfg_its_chels, who's an atual roller derby girl and thus the most qualified of anyone to skate; hang out with a couple of her classmates; and skate! Laila didn't actually do that much skating, because this was literally the first time she had ever skated before, but she put on her roller skates and her Grandpa took her out with one of the pipe hand-hold frames that the center provided. She didn't do much skating, but she did more than one of her classmates (whose parents just could not convince him to get out on the rink). And now she's talking about how much she wants to go skating, and sashagee has her own skates so they can go skating together. In the summer there are some park districts that open family skating, including a couple right by my work. They could go skating and we could all go to lunch together.We did get some sad news that one of Laila's classmates, whose birthday we went to a few months ago, isn't going to Laila's neighborhood school next year because they live outside the district and so they didn't get in--Chicago works basically like Japanese schools, where you can apply to go to any school in the district you want to. They're going to keep trying but they won't be classmates together next year.
Grandpa trying to show Laila how to skate.
Laila's birthday cake! It was a tres leches cake.
Final note: It's true that her birthday was almost a month ago but we had to wait until she got the all-clear after her surgery to perform physical activity, and then we had to have enough lead time
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