The Woes of a Three Year Old. And other stuff.

Yesterday, after a very hard day at school ("Mom, I can't walk up the stairs... I'm just too tired from singing at school!") and an even longer day at home (it's hard to eat lunch after someone else has prepared it!) Jayson sat alone in the dining room with Spiderman while I changed Aidan's diaper. I could hear him having a special conversation with Spidey: "Oh, Spiderman, you're just my only friend." "Sigh. Aidy is too little to be my friend." Then he sang a song all about having only one friend. It was very melancholy. But cute. Spiderman was a Christmas gift last year from his Aunt Hannah, and he's made a recent comeback with everyone in the family, including Murphy. On a happier note, Jay and I celebrated our 6th anniversary or "honeyversary" as Jay likes to call it. We went to Les Miserables at the Signature Theatre (excellent) and stayed in the Mayflower. The next day (Auntie Crystal stayed with the boys overnight!)we went to a golf store and Jay purchased his first two golf clubs, a 5 iron and a putter. It was very dull for me and I guess the sales guy wasn't much of a people reader because he kept directing all of his pearls of golfing wisdom at me (apparrantly I looked like I needed to hear them more than Jay)and I did my best to at least give him occasional eye contact, but that's as much as I could muster. Of course when Jay said "let's look at the lady's clubs", I pointed out that that would be infringing on our already short time left to go to the mall. We walked from store to store at a somewhat leisurely pace for a couple of hours and it was very nice. Worth the extremely long time spent at the golf store. His lessons (for Christmas) start after the 1st of January. Hooray! I hope this is his sport.





The week before that we went to Jay's office party which was...well,an office party. Lots of drunk government employees making bad small talk for a few hours over a sub-par, rather drawn out dinner. But I did get a lovely new dress.

As for holiday celebrating, Jayson and I made gingerbread houses one night while Aidan was bathing, and we bought a tree and decorated it. It's been decorated several times thus far, once by me and also by Aidan and Jayson. I noticed that ornaments seemed to be disappearing one day and Jayson showed me what he had been doing with them: he had his own "tree" under our bed that he was decorating for Wall-E. IF you haven't seen the movie this won't make as much sense to you...Wall-E had a rather depressing life so Jayson seems to think that if he were with us he would probably want to live under our bed where it could remind him of post-nucleur earth where no humans could survive. Wall-E has been ever-present in our lives since he made his very strong first impression on Jayson a month ago. He doesn't want to watch the movie again, but he does want Wall-E to be his friend, and we are always looking for Eva. Jayson is compassionate and empathetic and well, perfect. To me.





Aidan and I attended the Sing-a-long at Jayson's preschool and it's sort of like watching a crowd during feeding time at the zoo. Everyone standing up at their seats(like a rock concert) and flashes going off constantly. I wonder if Obama's inauguration will compare. They sang one or two Christmas songs but mostly Hanukkah and Kwaanza songs, which was funny to me, because I'm pretty sure the vast majority of kids in his school are Hindu. But you know, the school has to be hip. I took a lot of really awful pictures, Aidan screamed every time I tried to direct him away from the crowds of kids in front(he danced the whole time), and Jayson sang part of one song and elbowed the little girl next to him and made her cry, so I think it was quite a hit.





Aidan has been doing very well at causing a scare at every turn lately. He ate half of an orange with the peel still on it the other day, and learned how to climb up onto the oven drawer when I stepped out of the kitchen momentarily while making dinner (yes, the burner was on, but I started only using the back ones, thank goodness!). He also knows how to open the dishwasher and climb onto it and today he undid his seatbelt at the grocery store and I turned around just in time to keep him from plunging head-first to the floor. While Jayson has his swim lessons Aidan usually tries to make a break for the the pool but after giving up on that he enjoys entangling himself in rope and playing at the garbage can.
And to top everything else written in this entry, my mysterious nose sore has made a glorious reappearance, and is hoping to stick around until after the New Year, I think. We'll see about that.