As many of you know I was planning on graduating in August. Well, it’s not going to happen. I had to drop a class today. There are only so many hours in the day and I just couldn’t make it work. I was going to need to meet with a student twice a week for this class, plus I am already working with another student for another class that I will be meeting with once a week, plus I go to class once a week, plus we are putting our house on the market, plus we are building a house, plus Colm is having surgery sometime this month, plus Sean is going to be out of town for a large chunk of February, plus I have to take a comprehensive exam in April over all of my studies thus far. I am only one person.
Archive for January 2007
There have been many books written and many movies made about the social structure of girls and how there are leaders, followers, and for lack of a better word-victims. The bottom line is that girls can be ugly. I usually think of girls in junior high or high school. Today Liam came home from preschool and told me that Morgan is the leader of the girls. He told me this because Morgan wasn’t there today and he said that the other girls didn’t know what to do since she wasn’t there. He said they just kept going around in circles. I am not sure what he meant by that and I can’t decide if it is sad or just interesting.
Just doing a role call. Leave a comment with your name so I know who is reading. I love to hear your comments…it’s like getting mail and I LOVE getting mail.
If you look up the phrase “terrible twos” in the dictionary you will see a picture of Colm. Next to that you will see a picture of me pulling my hair out. He is not the type of terrible two who throws tantrums. He does have an occasional tantrum, but nothing major. The problem is that he knows how to push EVERYONES’ buttons and he does it with a smile! He will take a perfectly folded basket of laundry and dump it on the floor…and grin at you while he is doing it. That’s just an example.
Also, I would say in the past four days I have been in public with him and at least three complete strangers have said to me something like, “Boy, he sure has a lot of energy.” Yes, he does. I don’t need to be reminded, and at this point if you say something to me about my child’s behavior/energy level, I am likely to hand him over to you and wish you good luck.
Yes, it was a long weekend.
Colm started Kindermusik this month and he loves it! You know who loves it more though? Me! I love it because it is doing so much better this time than the last time we tried it when he was 16 months old. We are with a different teacher in a different room (the room we had previously was half the problem-it had a stage/platform thing they weren’t supposed to get on…that didn’t go so well…what kid doesn’t want to get up on stage…we should have just had class on the stage) and he is older and actually “gets it” this time. The best thing about it is that he is one of the oldest ones in the class. Colm NEVER gets to be the oldest anywhere. He always has Liam telling him what to do..he is always the baby. Not at Kindermusik! He is the only kid who sings along with the teacher, he listens, he participates and he is having a blast! I am so glad I decided to try it again.
Let me start by saying this is not my favorite book. I even hid it from Colm so that I would not have to read it anymore…he found it at the library and so now I am reading it again. I figured it must have some redeeming value if he likes it so much and it does, I am just tired of reading it. It teaches kids how to count backwards from ten, it has farm animals in it and talks about what sounds they make and it has TONS of repetition in it which is why it is a great book for kids. Colm can practically “read” it on his own it has so much repetition (and because his mother has read it to him 10,000 times!)
I think in a past lifetime Colm lived in Mexico or some other part of the world were tortillas, rice and beans are a staple. We went out to one of our favorite Mexican restaurant tonight and he cleaned his plate! He finished off his quesadilla and then moved onto the beans and rice. He was having a hard time eating them with the spoon so he was using the chips to scoop them into his mouth. When the waitress came to take his plate, which for all intents and purposes was void of food, he told her he was not done. He was still using the chips to get every last bit off of the plate that he could. Another bit of evidence that I have about Colm’s past life is that he and Sean go through chips and salsa like crazy. I have started buying two bottles of salsa at a time because they go through it so quickly. Oftentimes when Sean comes home from work he will have some chips and salsa while dinner is cooking. Well, of course Colm joins him and by the time dinner is ready Colm has already eaten his dinner…of chips and salsa. I think I am going to start calling him my little red-headed mijo. 🙂
Mom, did you get married so you could have a sweet little boy like me?
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The snow we got last night was PERFECT snowman snow! Liam, Colm and some neighbors helped to create our first snowman. 
