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.
Archive for March 2008
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.
You can find out more here.
You can raise your son a Quaker, a vegan or a pagan; he’s still going to fight with his brother over an unused pen cap as though it were the Star of India.
You can kiss him every night and sing to him of milkweed and nightingales and give him his own doll and play kitty with him instead of Navy SEALs. Go ahead. He’s still going to make a gun from a toaster waffle and fire it across the table-even if he’s never seen a gun that didn’t squirt water and wasn’t shaped like a caterpillar.
This was in Wondertime magazine this month written by Jacquelyn Mitchard.
I just had to share these gems because they are SOOOO true. 🙂
This was our Easter:
-we were awoken by Liam a little before 5a.m. because he was having a croup attack
-I gave Liam some meds to reduce the swelling in his throat while Sean looked frantically for my glasses so I could drive Liam to the hospital
-I put Liam in the car and then decided there was no way I could drive him-he was too bad
-Called 911 and sat in the driveway with Liam while Sean called 911 again because Liam was getting worse
-Went to the hospital, got the meds that he needs, and Liam was fine (It amazes me how effective the meds they give him for croup are. I wish we could have them at home and trust me, I have asked. He gets it enough that it would save everyone a whole lot of trouble. This episode was definitely in the top three worse cases of croup he has had and it is very scary. Sitting with your child in an ambulance is no fun.)
-Came home and fell asleep
-Totally missed church
-Opened Easter baskets
-Had Easter Egg Hunt
-Made Easter Cake
-Went to Sean’s aunt’s house for family meal
Colm fell asleep on the hard floor…now THAT’S tired. He was in timeout for biting Liam’s toe and he just fell asleep.
I was standing in line at McDonald’s in the airport today. I went up to order and this young professional woman grabbed my arm to tell me that I was in the wrong line. Okay, I admit, I was in the wrong line. It was an honest mistake. There were only two people in line. It’s not like I accidentally cut in front of 100 people. Why did she have to grab my arm? Why couldn’t she just let it go? I have had similar experiences where I was the one who could have done the arm grabbing, but you just let it go. It’s not a big deal. There was such a short line that she was still there waiting for her food when I went up to order a second time when it was actually my turn. I almost said something super smarmy to her, but I swallowed it. I don’t know what is going on in her life that would make her be the way she is. I let it go.
