Colm and I went on a field trip today to the downtown library to a program they have right now about fairy tales. It was a great exhibit with LOTS of hands-on things for kids to do.
Outside of parking garage…pretty neat.
Climbing Jack’s beanstalk
The giant from Jack and the Beanstalk
Riding in Cinderella’s coach
Colm making up his own fairy tale on the computer.
Look, Mom, a secret window.
I know it is a little late for this, but I have decided I need to do something for myself, so here it is…Colm and I always go out on these fun little field trips during the week. Whether it be to storytime at the jazz museum, a play at Union Station, or just going to the park when the weather is nice. I love spending time with Colm, but we always do all of these things by ourselves. We went out yesterday and I saw all of these moms out together with their kids. I need that. I need to spend more time with people over the age of four. We can still do all of our fun stuff, but I need to make a conscious effort to start asking others to come with us. Not only will it be good for me, it will be fun for Colm, too. I know he could use a break from me every now and again, too.
Are there ever things you want to blog about but you can’t?
Sean and I had dinner last night with over 3,300 other people. Sean’s work had their annual company dinner. There were over 330 tables with ten people at each table. It was crazy. (When Sean first started working there almost ten years ago we used to meet at a dinner theater for the company dinner.) The food was good and they had an awesome group called the Stanford Taiko Drums perform. Everyone in the whole room stopped what they were doing to watch these people. It was really cool to watch that many people stop and pay attention.
Liam’s party was a huge success and now I can relax. We had eight kindergarten boys (plus Colm) and it was great…the kids were great, the cupcakes were great and the magician was great. Phew! On a sidenote, I can’t believe he is six! Six, people! He has to use both hands to show people how old he is!
Cupcakes in the shape of a magician’s hat with rabbits on top.
The magician was so good and so good with the boys…totally into boy humor. They were in stitches.
Liam the assistant (yes, he’s holding a Barbie…it was part of the trick).
Checking out the goody bags.
I went to go get my ashes today and as we were going back to our seats Colm wanted to know why I didn’t get my “snack”.
I was pulling out of the garage yesterday and I turned on the radio. An REM song was on and I had to stop the car. It is amazing how a song can bring back memories. It got me thinking about the music that was so important to me in high school and college. The music that my friends and I danced to, drove around the city to and played in the background while we were going about our lives. REM and the B-52’s always bring back memories. Loveshack! I think of the parties that Phil had in his basement. We were always dancing-always! The Red Hot Chili Peppers were a favorite when things got a little crazy. New Order always makes me think of dancing at the Monolith in high school. Whenever I hear Madonna’s Vogue it reminds me of a time when Dana and I were driving down the freeway with the windows down at night singing at the top of our lungs or the time I made Matt Livengood listen to it a zillion times in my car as we were driving around because I had it taped back to back the length of an entire tape. He loved it though. 🙂 Whenever I hear Erasure it reminds me of the mornings I drove to the hospital before I went to school to see my mom when she was in a coma. That tape must have been in my car during that time. The Samples and the Indigo Girls always makes me think of the last summer I worked as a camp counselor when I was in college. On the weekends, when the kids were gone and all of the counselors were left alone to gear up for the next busload of kids coming on Monday, those two were staples of our reenergizing. What soundtracks define my life right now? The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything soundtrack, Suzuki Book One listening CD and the Backyardigans CD. My how times have changed. 🙂
Colm and I went swimming today (inside!) and I look over and he is praying-in the pool! I asked him why he was praying. He says he is praying to God to help him find the pool toy he can’t find. I love it!
Liam informed me tonight that he has a crush (his word not mine) on Sarah. I will admit, Sarah is pretty cute. It’s her freckles.
Colm has never been a big Sesame Street fan…until last night. My MIL treated Colm and I to a night at Sesame Street Live at the Sprint Center and it was great. It was a much higher quality show than when we used to take Liam. It was about what you want to be when you grow up; it was very cute. Watching Colm’s face was priceless. When the show first started he had this look on his face…a little confused mixed with a little bit afraid mixed with a little bit of anticipation. Two seconds into it though and his face lit up…it would have been a gem of a picture, but I was too busy watching him to actually get the shot.
We got this game for Christmas and the boys love it and so do I. There are a few ways you can play it. We have never played by the official rules, but the gist of the game is to sort the squares by attribute in a dominoes sort of way. Different lines have different attributes and if you can’t play one of your squares based on what has been played you can try and start a new line with a different characteristic until you have used up all of your squares.
