Weekend Wedding

Before the ceremony.

He hands off the ring.

Maya was playing with a friend here today and I was sitting on the couch, reading the paper, zoning out. I could hear them playing but I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing until I got up and saw Maya but saw that Guillermo's room was closed.

"Maya, where is your friend?" I asked as I moved toward Guillermo's door.

"He's in Guillermo's room. We are getting married and I told him to go in there and practice dancing for the wedding."

I listened at the door, smiling, and heard the sound of Legos.

"Are you sure he's practicing?" I asked, nearly laughing.

"I told him to. Let's check."

Her friend wasn't dancing, but instead filling a play tea pot with Legos.

"I'm making coffee," he said.

"We're getting married. You are supposed to practicing dancing," Maya told him.

"OK," he answered happily. "I need a costume, too," he added, checking out the golden yellow satin dress Maya had on.

I searched Guillermo's room and found his old angel costume. In retrospect, it would have been cooler to give him the Batman costume, but he was pretty pleased with what I came up with.

Maya made me pretend to drive them to the wedding outside. On our way the door, Maya's friend said "this is the sweetest thing I've ever done."

I did the ceremony quickly, awkwardly, because I don't want Maya to start playing wedding with every neighborhood boy, or any neighborhood boy, and when they finished, they asked what next?

"The bouncy house!"

And they jumped for in the bouncy house for the next 20 minutes.