Olympics Opening Ceremony!

We did something we NEVER do tonight: we ate dinner in front of the TV. (Okay, in the interest of full disclosure, Isaac and I eat in front of the TV sometimes. Just not ever Elizabeth.) Note to self: Serve Elizabeth dinner BEFORE turning on the TV. It took her an hour to eat half a BLT sandwich.

It was fun to expose Elizabeth to the Games. The opening ceremony was crazily excessive and quite a show - it cost China $300 million to produce! We let Elizabeth watch almost the whole show part, then put her to bed before the never-ending parade of athletes. She took it pretty well, since I told her I wanted to be able to let her stay up late to watch some of the other events coming up.

After she'd been in bed for a few minutes, she broke out into heart-rending sobs, the kind that as a parent you know your child is truly heartbroken over something. I went in there, and she cried sadly, "I've never seen a cartwheel!" (Isaac had just made a comment about the cartwheelers around that big globe thing that she must have overheard.)

Since it was a special night, I got her up and carried her outside (we were both in our pajamas) and Isaac performed a cartwheel for her on the front lawn. After that, she went right to sleep!