My Heart&Soul

I'd apologize for the cheesy title, but I like it too much.

If you say so

I finally sent Sam to daycare with the appropriate outdoor wear today.  When I had him try on the hat and mittens to make sure they fit, I told him he needed these things to be ready for winter time.  He spent the rest of the evening wearing the hat, mittens, and only underwear while continually pointing out he was ready for winter time.

This morning he was equally excited to wear the hat and mittens.  Lucky for daycare I was able to wrestle him into more clothing than just underwear.  The entire drive to daycare he was again telling me he was ready for winter time, but then he also expounded on what he was going to do once it snowed.  He is really excited to make snowballs.  He's going to make all the snowballs.  And I am going to help him.  And snowballs are his favorite thing.  And snowballs are his favorite thing because they are his favorite color.  Snowballs are white and that's his favorite, "so that's the shape of that color."

Wat.

Preparing

As previously mentioned, we have been talking to Alex about Aiden dying in an effort to prepare him as much as possible for the semi truck of emotions that event will deliver.  The other night, I thought he was procrastinating coming upstairs to get ready for bed and I was getting a bit impatient.  I finally yelled down the stairs for him to come up, and he replied that he would in a sec but that he was talking to Aiden.  I looked down into the living room to see him kneeling on the floor in front of the couch with his head resting on the couch cushion next to her head while he was petting her and talking to her.  Yeah, I immediately felt like an asshole for scolding him and let him be with her as long as he wanted.

When he came upstairs, he was visibly sad and I asked what was wrong.

"I just really don't want her to die."
"I know buddy.  I am so sorry."
"Mom?  When she does die, can we have a pet funeral for her?"
~trying desparately to figure out what a pet funeral would entail~"Of course we can."
"And?  Then can you find another dog that looks exactly like her and make sure it's a girl and can we name her Aiden?"

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand then we cried.  When it happens, the death of this dog is gonna be rough.

Sticky Silver Lining

A fun thing to do when you work from home is to set up camp at the kitchen table.  And what makes it even more fun is if you sit near your younger child's chair at the table, you don't have to worry about your paper sliding around when you write.  It'll just stick right there.  Thanks last night's dinner!

Field Trip!

Daycare took the kids on a field trip yesterday to a farm near us called Busy Barns.  They have approximately a zillion things for kids to do and Sam loved it.  They have giant metal tubes the kiddos can crawl or walk through and apparently Sam took quite a liking to them.

This morning, he woke up and asked where we were going.  I said that we needed to get ready for the day, but then we would go to daycare.  "But Mama.  Where are we going?"  Uhhhh, to daycare.  I finally figured out he was asking if he was going on another field trip today. 

And It Begins

Alex is starting his second season of hockey.  Last year was just Initiation to Skate.  But this year?  This year he gets to play games.  He is a little bit excited.

"Mom.  This is fine.  It's not creepy.  I'm just gonna sleep in it."

Chef Tries A Lot

Alex is still very interested in learning how to cook.  He is getting pretty good at making scrambled eggs even though he is some sort of barbarian and won't let me season them at all.  Yesterday morning we had a quick lesson in meal prep location...as in, eggs rolls, dude...Ya gotta put them somewhere safe.