Costly accident and some more diggers

Last night I had an accident. I drove out of the garage straight [into the wall of the garage] and smashed the passenger side door mirror. I am very sad and Joshua is frustrated and irritable [but not thinking about it]. This morning, I vacuumed and cleaned the car to try and make it feel better after the accident.

Frost said "well, you drove into that rock at Camp Orkila and you smashed into a pole in the parking garage once, so.."
And Joshua added "he has a point there".

It seems that the male ability to point out the driving mistakes of the opposite sex starts young. I am chagrined, embarrassed and miserable about the waste of money. Who would have thought that these little plastic and glass things on the side of cars are so expensive and why do they have to be motorized? I mean, how often do you adjust your side mirror, really? Can't we get out the car and do it?

Sigh. I am just trying to avoid the sad and jagged edge.

On a lighter note, Wren and I discovered a new playground (or newly renovated playground) at the entrance to Ravenna gorge. It has a huge circular sandbox which is filled with diggers, dump trucks pavers and other construction machinery. Wren spent a long while digging, making roads, sliding the diggers down a small slide and hiding them in holes and mountains of sand. He did not want to leave.

Later, he slid down the very steep slide with me (very scary) and we road the bike through the ravine to a coffee shop where he had a cookie and I enjoyed a latte.

He started his nap late and now is still sleeping when its time to go and drive carpool. Uh oh. He is going to be sad to be dragged out into the sunlight in a moment or two.

On another happy note. Frost completed his independent testing for the Seattle Public Schools APP program yesterday and it looks as if he will qualify for Lowell Elementary. We await the formal report. If he does meet the cutoff he still has to do the public group testing later this month however, if he does not score as highly in the group setting (our concern last year) we are able to use these private results to appeal.