The boys got this art center for Christmas from Grandma and Grandad and I FINALLY got it put together last week. It has a chalk board on one side, a white board on the other and then a roll of paper that comes down that you can paint/color on. They also got paints and dry erase markers to go with it. (Thank you Aunt Kim!) Colm LOVES to paint, so this was the perfect gift for him. He has already created several masterpieces (and a really big mess.) But hey, it’s in the basement, so who cares.
I have discovered the Stride Rite Outlet store. (I think I heard angels singing as I was walking out I was so happy with myself.) They have this super cool electronic foot measuring thing and of course we have a 11 1/2 XW (Colm) and 2W (Liam) so Stride Rite is the place for shoes, especially for Mr. I Have Bricks at the End of my Ankles Colm. I got Liam’s shoes, normally $42 for $28 and Colm’s shoes, normally $28 for $25 AND they have BOGO. You can’t go wrong. We will be going back when it is time to buy shoes for school.
Colm does not want to turn four. He wants to be three forever. He asked me today if after he is done with all of his birthdays, could he be three again. I told him he could because really, what’s the point of arguing about it. Liam was listening and said, “You can’t do that. You’d have to build a special machine or something.” Which then upset Colm which is why I didn’t want to argue the point in the first place!!! Liam is not good at “just letting it go” as I like to call it.
This is a book for upper elementary age kids, but sometimes I like to read books aimed at that audience. Jerry Spinelli is a great author, but his books are a little dark. Eggs is about a boy whose mother has just died, he is living with his grandmother while his dad is working in another state. He is clearly struggling when he meets a girl named Primrose…and that is where the story begins.
Liam has decided that he is absolutely terrified of every insect except ladybugs and rolypolys-and he isn’t real sure about the rolypolys. He wouldn’t take a bath last night because he thought there was a bug in the bath. He wouldn’t go in his room the other night because he felt I had left the back door open for too long while trying to get the dog to come inside and some bugs from outside might have somehow made it up to his room even though the door was shut. There was a dead gnat on the kitchen table the other night and all I heard was this ear-piercing shriek…I thought something was really wrong. I don’t think we’ll bother signing him up for Boy Scouts. 🙂
I am so sad. We have been kicked out of the little boy section of clothing stores and have officially moved into the big boy section. I went to The Children’s Place today to check out a sale they were having on shorts and realized that the next step up for Colm is a size 4, which brings us to the front of the store, out of the little guy section. Heavy sigh. They grow up so fast.
We went to a new restaurant (actually it’s more of a pub) tonight that’s a little bit west of the BV Parks and Rec building, called Llewellyn’s, and I have favorable reviews. It is very family friendly; they have a children’s menu. They also have a nice list of beers and they even have cider. (Not the hot apple kind, but the beer kind.) Modern Irish music plays in the background and they also have yummy desserts. Note: if you order dessert, just pick one. Their desserts are pretty big. We had the Guinness brownies and the cheesecake. Anyways, it is definitely worth checking out- a nice fun atmosphere and locally owned.
Obviously these are not my kids, but the first one is a very good representation of what a group Suzuki lesson looks like in the VERY beginning. The second is a child playing the song Liam is now working on.
His newest song. He can’t play it like this yet though. 🙂
Gem from today…
I can’t wipe your bottom if you’re being a frog.
I have been talking to anyone who will listen to me about this. It is fascinating because the show is about a high school in our area-my BIL went there not too long ago. I have only watched three episodes and three girls have already gotten pregnant. To clarify, only one of the twelve girls being filmed gets pregnant, but so does one of her friends and a younger sister of one of the other girls. That is not good, people! If you aren’t familiar with the show, it is about twelve girls who were chosen when they were freshmen, to be filmed throughout their high school lives. So, the producer had no idea what would happen to these girls over the course of their four years in high school. It just amazes me to look at them as freshman, they are scared about high school and they are BABIES! By the time they are sophomores they are more comfortable in their own skin and by the time they are juniors and seniors…watch out! I am locking my kids in a closet until they are 40.
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