Had a wonderful and exhausting Easter weekend. Spent It with John’s brother Bernard and his wife Tracie with Olivia and Matthew. I spent Saturday cleaning the house. They came around 6pm Saturday night. I was so excited to see Matthew and was so happy that he seemed to remember us. I’m just not sure what to expect with his age at 16 months. As soon as he came in I got on
youtube.com to play Beyonce’s “All the single ladies.” I taught him the song, because he liked the “OH OH OH” that she sings. Tracie called a few weeks ago to tell me that he was singing that. As soon as I put on the music he started bouncing up and down and shaking his arm.(Those are his dance moves...sooooo cute.) I took video later of this, but nothing as cute as when he first heard this music. He’s at a climbing age too. He wore me out climbing up the stairs, because he didn’t want to crawl backwards down. He wants to step down and his legs aren’t long enough. He actually rolled down a few steps a few times and bonked his head, but if you don’t fuss, and just say “big boy” he does fine and doesn’t notice that it hurt.
John grilled burgers and we just had a laid back evening. Blockbuster didn’t have the movie we wanted, so we just watched TV. Sunday morning we played some more, then I threw together a sausage egg and hash brown casserole for breakfast. Matthew went outside a little later and played with the bubble machine we bought him. He likes pushing buttons so it was great fun. The multitude of bubbles seemed to thrill him. I can’t wait to see how he likes them when it’s warmer outside. It was actually a pleasant day, sunny and about 60 degrees, but a little windy.
John grilled burgers and we just had a laid back evening. Blockbuster didn’t have the movie we wanted, so we just watched TV. Sunday morning we played some more, then I threw together a sausage egg and hash brown casserole for breakfast. Matthew went outside a little later and played with the bubble machine we bought him. He likes pushing buttons so it was great fun. The multitude of bubbles seemed to thrill him. I can’t wait to see how he likes them when it’s warmer outside. It was actually a pleasant day, sunny and about 60 degrees, but a little windy.
Another button he likes to push is the little talking photo cube I made for him. It has photos of the 3 of us together, because I want him to see pics of us when we’re away from him. I recorded a portion of a song that a sang all the time to him in Florida. The phrase I sang was “God picked you out from all the rest, ‘cause he knew that I loved you the very best.” When he pushed the button his eyes lit up and he looked at me as if he recognized that it was me singing. I just don’t know what to expect from a 16 month old, but he seems very aware.
I decided my name is “Lala”. He has an Aunt Lisa, John’s oldest sister. He says “YaYa” which I like too. John’s mom made a comment years ago about ‘L’s” being hard, so I’ve been working with him on saying them. I thought Lala might be easier to say than Lisa. He seems to know that’s my name. When he was down in the basement with John and Bernard I heard him yell "YAYA". As if he were calling me. I can't decide if it's just a fun word for him to say, or he really is calling me, but he uses it at appropriate times. I’m falling more and more in love.
We did an Easter egg hunt with him. I just filled plastic eggs with goldfish crackers and Peeps and had 2 pacifiers. One was big giant lips and the other is a pig snout. Too cute! His basket had a book with farm animals, a coloring book with larger crayons, animal crackers, chocolate bunny, and a big plastic flute recorder. He may be too young for the instrument, so I’ll bring it to him next time. He wasn’t quite sure about the easter egg hunt. It will be really fun next year when he’s more excited to do these things. I also gave Olivia a basket full of candy, a few novelty items and some sephora eyeliner. I hope she likes it all.
Next we took Matt to the play ground in the school yard next door to us. He liked the see saw and the slide. He liked the swing for a little bit, but really enjoys stepping up and down so he would wander off to the edge to try and step down, we had to continually redirect him to the playground.
We went back to the house to get Bernard and Olivia to play some more. Tracie watched the lamb in the oven. We came back to finish working on dinner. I took for granted that the last one in the house closed the sliding door behind them, but they didn’t, so after a minute, when Tracie asked where Matthew was we started looking around and he came back in from out side. That boy is going to need extra guardian angels. Our deck has no railing and he came in with one wet pant leg, so he probably stepped in our pond. The frightening thing is, how slick it is and unsteady. He could have died in that split second. I have heard stories in the past of people that just looked away for a minute and the child died. There is absolutely no rest with a little one around.
Trying to play and do a dinner, doesn’t work real well. John did some pork chops. I did Carol’s potato casserole and some candied carrots and asparagus. I’ve done the brown sugar and butter thing before, but it didn’t seem to work out as well this time. I ended up redoing it and it was just so so. Asparagus was fine, but the meat and potatoes seemed dry. It was disappointing, because I know John and I are both better cooks, but I guess I preferred to have fun than focus so much on making everything perfect. I can’t say I’m a big fan of lamb. I may play with a wine sauce to eat with the leftovers.
I think I would lose a lot of weight with Matthew around more. I really didn’t have much of an appetite, because I wanted to have fun with him. We ran and danced and played so much, I think I could give up my gym membership. After dinner, the guys were watching Masters golf, so I convinced them to go to the basement, taking Matthew. The dark cold place put him to sleep, which he needed. I went to pick up “DOUBT” at Blockbuster for the girls to watch. It was good and interesting. Left questions about whether or not a Catholic priest (Philip Seymour Hoffmen) was a child molester. Meryl Streep was an old bat nun that was convinced he was, but she was too strict and uptight. They both were EXCELLENT in the film.
After the movie, Tracie started packing up so it gave me a little more play time with Matthew. I know he was tired so he became cranky when it was time to go. I think being an Aunt is awesome. Nothing but FUN, and no poopy diapers if I don’t want to. I’m completely exhausted though and happy to have some “me” time, although Monday is another day of cleaning to get traces of Matthew from off the floor.
I decided my name is “Lala”. He has an Aunt Lisa, John’s oldest sister. He says “YaYa” which I like too. John’s mom made a comment years ago about ‘L’s” being hard, so I’ve been working with him on saying them. I thought Lala might be easier to say than Lisa. He seems to know that’s my name. When he was down in the basement with John and Bernard I heard him yell "YAYA". As if he were calling me. I can't decide if it's just a fun word for him to say, or he really is calling me, but he uses it at appropriate times. I’m falling more and more in love.
We did an Easter egg hunt with him. I just filled plastic eggs with goldfish crackers and Peeps and had 2 pacifiers. One was big giant lips and the other is a pig snout. Too cute! His basket had a book with farm animals, a coloring book with larger crayons, animal crackers, chocolate bunny, and a big plastic flute recorder. He may be too young for the instrument, so I’ll bring it to him next time. He wasn’t quite sure about the easter egg hunt. It will be really fun next year when he’s more excited to do these things. I also gave Olivia a basket full of candy, a few novelty items and some sephora eyeliner. I hope she likes it all.
Next we took Matt to the play ground in the school yard next door to us. He liked the see saw and the slide. He liked the swing for a little bit, but really enjoys stepping up and down so he would wander off to the edge to try and step down, we had to continually redirect him to the playground.
We went back to the house to get Bernard and Olivia to play some more. Tracie watched the lamb in the oven. We came back to finish working on dinner. I took for granted that the last one in the house closed the sliding door behind them, but they didn’t, so after a minute, when Tracie asked where Matthew was we started looking around and he came back in from out side. That boy is going to need extra guardian angels. Our deck has no railing and he came in with one wet pant leg, so he probably stepped in our pond. The frightening thing is, how slick it is and unsteady. He could have died in that split second. I have heard stories in the past of people that just looked away for a minute and the child died. There is absolutely no rest with a little one around.
Trying to play and do a dinner, doesn’t work real well. John did some pork chops. I did Carol’s potato casserole and some candied carrots and asparagus. I’ve done the brown sugar and butter thing before, but it didn’t seem to work out as well this time. I ended up redoing it and it was just so so. Asparagus was fine, but the meat and potatoes seemed dry. It was disappointing, because I know John and I are both better cooks, but I guess I preferred to have fun than focus so much on making everything perfect. I can’t say I’m a big fan of lamb. I may play with a wine sauce to eat with the leftovers.
I think I would lose a lot of weight with Matthew around more. I really didn’t have much of an appetite, because I wanted to have fun with him. We ran and danced and played so much, I think I could give up my gym membership. After dinner, the guys were watching Masters golf, so I convinced them to go to the basement, taking Matthew. The dark cold place put him to sleep, which he needed. I went to pick up “DOUBT” at Blockbuster for the girls to watch. It was good and interesting. Left questions about whether or not a Catholic priest (Philip Seymour Hoffmen) was a child molester. Meryl Streep was an old bat nun that was convinced he was, but she was too strict and uptight. They both were EXCELLENT in the film.
After the movie, Tracie started packing up so it gave me a little more play time with Matthew. I know he was tired so he became cranky when it was time to go. I think being an Aunt is awesome. Nothing but FUN, and no poopy diapers if I don’t want to. I’m completely exhausted though and happy to have some “me” time, although Monday is another day of cleaning to get traces of Matthew from off the floor.
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