Well, seven days after it went missing, we found Mikey's brand new Leapster. I was starting to get worried; it was not cheap. He'd put it in a good place so Evan wouldn't play with it.
E and C are almost well. They actually ran around yesterday without much coughing. That was a nasty cold. Papa still has it, but is improving also.
Evan has a new trick. He pulls...something...out of his diaper and then stares in glee at it. Pulls his shirt up, looks at it, tucks it back in the diaper, repeats. Boys and their toys, huh?
Still hot here. Highs in the upper 80s and hitting 90. Glad only one of Mikey's soccer games was at noon. That was brutal.
The soccer team lost again. Mikey I think was playing the part of a soccer player. He knows how the game works and runs to almost the right place, but tries to stay just out of reach of actually taking the ball away from the other team! Sometimes he does get in there and get the ball, but it's about one out of every 5 opportunities. The other team played rough. First time I've seen elbows flying and pushing like that.
Ah, the Halloween decorations have come out of hiding. Halloween is scary here. Last year we went T 'n T-ing on base. When we drove home, it took 10 minutes to drive the last 3 blocks because of bumper to bumper traffic. A good portion of the kids don't even bother with costumes, esp. the teenagers. It's hard to enjoy giving candy to people without costumes.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Bday #7
It was an interesting day. First Mikey woke up at 4:30 and watched tv by himself before Papa woke up at 5:30. Everything was great and wonderful...for a while. Then he wanted his presents. I tried to dole them out slowly, but that didn't work. He started off saying he wanted cake and presents and party games in the evening. Great, I explained the cake would be ready at 3pm, Papa would be home around 5pm, etc. Then he wanted the presents earlier and he kept asking for the cake NOW and talking about having friends come over.
I'm truly worried about how he kept insisting people were coming over, despite the fact that they weren't. He wouldn't go to the auditon and I tried really, really hard to change his mind. Usually I don't push an issue like this--it's his choice and trying to change his mind will just make him dig his heels in. But he misses having friends who come over, so I talked a bunch about how it would be a great chance to see people he already knows and maybe meet new people. He just insists that he has plenty of friends and that's that.
(Now this morning he is talking about how maybe Tutu is bringing a present for him despite several conversations about it coming in the mail. I'm not sure how to handle this...)
The day was saved by the mail! I checked the mail and he had two cards with $$. So we picked up the cake and he spent about half his slush fund on 3 toys. He only picked out two and then was happy! I thought we'd be there for a long time while he tried to spend all the money. I reminded him of one other toy he'd been asking for, so we grabbed that too.
We tried to look at Halloween costumes for him. I wanted to take a quick look at the decorations to see if there was anything we could get. Unfortunately, there was a life-sized mummy that made scary noises when we walked by. Mikey and Caroline started screaming and crying. I shouldn't have laughed. It was wrong. But they were screaming at the top of their lungs and crying and nobody noticed at all because it sounded like all the Halloween noise makers! I was pulling them to safety while laughing, so I'm not all bad.
Dinner and cake was great. I got over my funk at him skipping the audition. He'll go to Tae Kwon Do and soccer this week and we'll just keep rolling along.
I'm truly worried about how he kept insisting people were coming over, despite the fact that they weren't. He wouldn't go to the auditon and I tried really, really hard to change his mind. Usually I don't push an issue like this--it's his choice and trying to change his mind will just make him dig his heels in. But he misses having friends who come over, so I talked a bunch about how it would be a great chance to see people he already knows and maybe meet new people. He just insists that he has plenty of friends and that's that.
(Now this morning he is talking about how maybe Tutu is bringing a present for him despite several conversations about it coming in the mail. I'm not sure how to handle this...)
The day was saved by the mail! I checked the mail and he had two cards with $$. So we picked up the cake and he spent about half his slush fund on 3 toys. He only picked out two and then was happy! I thought we'd be there for a long time while he tried to spend all the money. I reminded him of one other toy he'd been asking for, so we grabbed that too.
We tried to look at Halloween costumes for him. I wanted to take a quick look at the decorations to see if there was anything we could get. Unfortunately, there was a life-sized mummy that made scary noises when we walked by. Mikey and Caroline started screaming and crying. I shouldn't have laughed. It was wrong. But they were screaming at the top of their lungs and crying and nobody noticed at all because it sounded like all the Halloween noise makers! I was pulling them to safety while laughing, so I'm not all bad.
Dinner and cake was great. I got over my funk at him skipping the audition. He'll go to Tae Kwon Do and soccer this week and we'll just keep rolling along.
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