Parenting is full of moments that make your heart swell. I had the biggest swell of my life the other day. Buster was playing, stopped, and ran over to me to give me a kiss. An unprovoked kiss! Because he wanted to, not because I said 'give me a kiss'! It was way cool.
Another cool thing he does is whenever I say "I love you", he'll turn around and give me a kiss. Adorable!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
And now, great parenting moments in history
Apparently, when Jim was visiting our friend Tim yesterday he saw a photo of a baby tacked to Tim's refrigerator. The following is a rough transcription of the conversation:
Jim - "Oh, who's the kid?"
Tim - "That's your kid"
Friday, November 7, 2008
We might possibly be the worst parents ever...again...
Okay, I was told I had to blog about this, so I am.
A couple of weeks ago we went out to dinner with our dear friends Becky and Adam. We had three kids between the four of us (B&A have 2, we have 1). So...we decide we're going to be adventurous and go out to eat. We settle on the Chancery since they are relatively kid friendly. We get there and it's a half hour wait. Rather than wait a half hour for a table, we proceed to spend the next hour finding a restaurant that can seat us immediately. We sit in our cars and talk...we come up with the Cheesecake Factory. We get there only to find out it's a 45 minute wait (at 8:30 at night). We talk some more. We end up at BW3's across the street. We have to wait about 15 minutes there. Okay, fine. Whatever. We finally get to our table and proceed to have the worst service ever.
I must interrupt here to remind you all that B&A have 2 kids - a 3 year old and a 3 month old. Odds are in our favor that we will have the good kid. Apparently, the odds were not with us that night. Tori (the 3 year old) quietly sat at the booth playing and coloring and sporatically talking to us (the cutest was - Leslie, you're my Godmother!). Ferris slept the entire evening. That left our...bundle of joy. To say that demons invaded Buster would be an understatement. There was nonstop screaming. So, I give him my orange off my daiquri. He seems to love it. Until I realize he's sucking the daiquri off the orange and not actually eating the orange. He wants to double dip. I argue with him. After 5 minutes of screaming, I cave. He happily dips his orange into the daiquri. At this point, Becky and Adam are cracking up. Jimmy and I are not. Finally our food gets to our table. I had ordered Buster a kids cheeseburger since the Dude loves meat. He hates it that night. He must, without a doubt, or he will surely die, have my hot wings. I try telling him he does not went them. He most assuredly replies he must. I try reasoning with him. It's 9:00 and well past his bedtime -- there is no reason. So...again I cave and give him a hot wing. Becky and Adam and Jimmy are in shock that I would be so mean to my kid. He barely gets it to lips when he shrieks and throws (no embellishing) the wing across the table. I try to give him a sip of milk. He's not taking anything I have to give. At this point, everyone at the table is laughing except for Buster and Ferris (because Ferris is still asleep).
But I'll tell you one thing - he hasn't asked for a single thing off my plate since :)
A couple of weeks ago we went out to dinner with our dear friends Becky and Adam. We had three kids between the four of us (B&A have 2, we have 1). So...we decide we're going to be adventurous and go out to eat. We settle on the Chancery since they are relatively kid friendly. We get there and it's a half hour wait. Rather than wait a half hour for a table, we proceed to spend the next hour finding a restaurant that can seat us immediately. We sit in our cars and talk...we come up with the Cheesecake Factory. We get there only to find out it's a 45 minute wait (at 8:30 at night). We talk some more. We end up at BW3's across the street. We have to wait about 15 minutes there. Okay, fine. Whatever. We finally get to our table and proceed to have the worst service ever.
I must interrupt here to remind you all that B&A have 2 kids - a 3 year old and a 3 month old. Odds are in our favor that we will have the good kid. Apparently, the odds were not with us that night. Tori (the 3 year old) quietly sat at the booth playing and coloring and sporatically talking to us (the cutest was - Leslie, you're my Godmother!). Ferris slept the entire evening. That left our...bundle of joy. To say that demons invaded Buster would be an understatement. There was nonstop screaming. So, I give him my orange off my daiquri. He seems to love it. Until I realize he's sucking the daiquri off the orange and not actually eating the orange. He wants to double dip. I argue with him. After 5 minutes of screaming, I cave. He happily dips his orange into the daiquri. At this point, Becky and Adam are cracking up. Jimmy and I are not. Finally our food gets to our table. I had ordered Buster a kids cheeseburger since the Dude loves meat. He hates it that night. He must, without a doubt, or he will surely die, have my hot wings. I try telling him he does not went them. He most assuredly replies he must. I try reasoning with him. It's 9:00 and well past his bedtime -- there is no reason. So...again I cave and give him a hot wing. Becky and Adam and Jimmy are in shock that I would be so mean to my kid. He barely gets it to lips when he shrieks and throws (no embellishing) the wing across the table. I try to give him a sip of milk. He's not taking anything I have to give. At this point, everyone at the table is laughing except for Buster and Ferris (because Ferris is still asleep).
But I'll tell you one thing - he hasn't asked for a single thing off my plate since :)
Monday, November 3, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Pumpkin Farm!
I consider this to really be our "first year". Yes, technically last year was the first, first. But this is the first year James/Jimmy/Buster/the Dude/little Man/Pooper can really enjoy and become involved. A few weekends ago we did the most traditional of fall activities (besides raking leaves, which will come later) - we went to the pumpkin farm! Buster was unsure about it at first, but he really got into it and did not want to leave. We ended up at Apple Holler, which those of you Wisconsin/Illnoisians know is a mecca for yuppy families. Considering none of the three of us like crowds, we got our overpriced pumpkin and booked it out of there with promises of ice cream.
"Hi Pumpkins!"
This one's as big as he is!
We played with this grass for a solid 5 minutes. 
Buster's still ready to go look at pumpkins, while Jim is just ready to go home.
Whew! Pumpkin buying is hard work!
Too long
How do I know it's been too long since my last post? I just downloaded 365 pictures off my camera. Yikes! I'm going to try to post at least once a week (I'll start small and work my way up). It was easy to post when Buster wasn't doing anything, but now he's so much fun and always on the go and wants to play. But he is usually in bed by 8:30 so I have no excuse not to post then. Anyway...enjoy a gratituous Buster picture from his baptism (yes, we gave him Tylenol)...
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