Annie.
Friday evening I went to the grocery store and decided to pick up a movie for Pizza and Movie night. Annie was on the shelf, and quickly joined my stash of goodies in the grocery cart. I haven’t seen that movie in forever, and it is possible that I never actually watched the whole thing from start to finish. But I LOVED it! I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face the entire movie (might have also been partially caused by my second glass of vino). Ty really liked it too. He would get up and dance, and he got a kick out of Jay and I belting out “tomorrow tomorrow I love ya tomorrow”. I would love to take him to see it on Broadway someday. Sweet little Valentines Day.

Swim.
Saturday morning was the usual rush to get out of the house for the 7:00 swim lessons. I almost kept Lily out since she wasn’t feeling great on Friday but decided at the last minute that she would be OK. Jay got to have fun in the pool with Lily this week. He is less timid about dipping her under, so I think he might get to do it next week as well. She thinks it is so fun! Some kids cry the whole time – not Lil. She smiles the whole time. I got to sit and watch Ty – it has been a few weeks since I had been in the pool with Lily. He did awesome. He really swims to the other side – kicks, does big swimmer arms, holds his breath forever. Check out the video on Facebook.

Skatepark.
Every day on the way to school we pass a skatepark/playground. Every day Ty asks if we can go. Today was the day. We didn’t tell him, we just loaded up his scooter and helmet with the swimming gear. He noticed that I put it in the car but didn’t ask why. After swim lessons we started heading that way. It took him a while to guess, and his reaction was just like, yeah, ok. After three months of asking to go, I would have thought he would have nearly jumped out of his carseat with excitement… First he wanted to go to the playground. Jay FaceTimed Memaw while Ty played. During that conversation we learned that she isn’t arriving until Friday – we were thinking she was coming Wednesday. I asked her to move her flight but she didn’t go for that idea. Nuts. I just want her to get here!!!
After a while Ty wanted to go to the skatepark. I walked over with him. There were a few other kids playing on it – one was actually going up and down the ramps, but there were younger kids just climbing up and sliding down on their bums. I thought Ty would be timid because he won’t even ride his down the driveway, but he went straight to a little ramp and rode it down. Didn’t stay on his scooter, but that’s ok. I think he got a little adrenaline rush. He kept trying – and he checked himself before trying something new. I could see his little brain thinking “hmmm if I fall how bad will it hurt? That boy did it. Maybe I will try it next time.” He took a couple spills but choked back tears and got right back on.
Jay had mentioned to a coworker that the park we found last week should have a skatepark for the kids. She said there was no way the community would put one in because they are “full of drug dealers and graffiti.” This one seemed quite nice. We chatted with a dad for a bit. Then he asked if our company does drug tests. Um. Jay and I were like, we aren’t sure, it is mostly office workers, we didn’t have to pee in a cup… Got awkward, and I could tell Jay was thinking the same thing I was – this guy needs a job, but does drugs, so he doesn’t want to bother if they do drug tests. I mean, we were at a skatepark, the dude had gold trim on his glasses, he has a boat and was talking about buying another. He must be a drug dealer. Either he needed a job or was fishing for more customers. Jay and I look like total addicts. And then he said, “always networking, that’s what I do for a living.” Ohhhhhhhh! So you give the drug tests?! Makes it totally less awkward. Although now that I am thinking about it again, I think that was a cover. I agree, skateparks are full of drug dealers. But we will go back. Ty loved it.
Ty wanted to go back to the playground one more time, so I went to the car to feed Lily while Jay went to the playground. I got a text message saying Ty wanted his chips. He hadn’t eaten much brekky because we were rushing to leave, so the poor kid was starving. Like awesome parents, we thought a bag of chips after swim lessons was a good substitute. And orange juice. Apparently while I was not at the park (I would not have allowed this…) Ty got on this ring around a pole and spun around and around and around. Ok. This is the kid that is Nana’s grandson, who can’t take two left turns without getting car sick. What do you think happened? Yep. Ty puked up his orange juice and chippies at the skatepark. I pushed him in the stroller back to the car, headed home, and he puked again. He caught most of it in his airplane puke bag (Memaw, please get some more on your flight over). The rest of the morning was pretty relaxed, letting both kids’ tummies heal up (and letting mama sneak in a nap on the playroom floor). I think jay was passive aggressively telling me that he wasn’t impressed that I fell asleep because he posted this picture on Facebook. It isn’t obvious that there is a sleeping mama under the blanket…

Flush.
I forgot to share a funny story yesterday. On Friday when I was home with the kids, I was upstairs feeding Lily, and Ty was downstairs. He came up and told me he went toots. I said great, but you didn’t flush or wash your hands (he is really having a hard time remembering to do this lately). After trying to convince me that he did (I knew he didn’t) he walked away, went to the bathroom UPstairs, flushed and washed his hands. I didn’t realize what he had done until a while later when I noticed the DOWNstairs toilet had not been flushed. I guess I didn’t specify which toilet needed to be flushed, and he sure wasn’t going to go downstairs if he didn’t have to. Well played, little man. Well played.

Crawling!!!!
It is official. Lily looked a bit like a newborn foal trying to find her legs, but after a wobbly first try, Lily is now crawling!! Timing is perfect – Jay just went and bought a drill to I stall the baby gate this afternoon. Going to need it!

Once she figured out how to get to Ty’s toys, she gets really mad when we take them away. Little hissy fits. 🙂

Dance Party.
We all know Ty hates wearing anything but his Bonds undies. So don’t be surprised when you check out the Facebook video of our little impromptu Saturday afternoon dance party, and Ty is showing off his sweet moves is his undies. Jay has mad skills, as well.

Coffee.
Jay bought me a coffee maker today. They don’t have anything like I am used to back home, so he came back with an espresso machine that has a separate milk frother. Fancy! It has a bunch of sample pods, so I can try them all out and figure out what flavor I like best. The first one I had was pretty good. The coffee fills a normal coffee cup only about halfway. I filled the rest with my fancy frothed milk. Not bad, not bad. I am either caffeine deprived or the coffee here is mega strong, because I felt like I was totally jacked up. I am anxious to try the other flavors. Thanks Jay!!

Ramina.
We had dinner at the ramina (marina) Saturday night. Jay took Ty over to the tavern to play video games. He is learning about odds. He could choose to put money in the claw game and only maybe get a toy, or he could put money in the vending machine and definitely get a treat. He chooses the vending machine game. Good choice, son.
During dinner, Ty was quoting lines from Annie. “I love you Mrs. Hannigan!” in a totally sarcastic voice. He is his father’s son. Movie turrets.
Ty was playing with some older boys, doing what boys do – running, jumping, climbing. They were tolerating him, even though he was quite a bit younger than him. When it was time to go, Ty was down on the lower level talking to two cute girls about the same age as the boys. He said he was telling them about his cool toys. If the older boys weren’t impressed enough by Ty’s smooth talking, they saw us climb into Tiger. They said, “hey! That is the awesome buggy we saw earlier!” Pretty sure Ty is now a legend.

Night swim.
When we got home the boys decided to go for a night swim. Ty must really like them because one of his pieces of artwork at school has a title – “I love swimming at night.” It isn’t hard to convince Jay to go for a dip. I think he has started making mental plans for our pool back home…

That’s all for now! G’day mates!