Thankfully, Grandma mentioned that she hadn’t seen the skeleton pictures – and I realized that in my blurry eyed tiredness, I forgot to post them! She picked these matching pj’s up in Disneyworld and while these pictures are adorable, you should have seen all of them dancing around in the dark with glowing bones. So fun.
And here they were practicing their “Spooky Scary Skeletons” dance. You will note that a) this was not a dress rehearsal and b) golf can never be compromised:
I wanted to entitle this post “Mama and Daddy” because in the last two days, Brendan has started really saying “Mama” and “Daddy”. He’s been saying the sounds for a while, but now he looks at us, particularly when we walk away, and calls out to us. “Daddy” was first. I love the way he says it. He really enunciates and draws it out a little so it comes out, “Daadeee!” (always with an exclamation point). Mama just became confirmed tonight. We were out to eat, and as I went to the salad bar I heard it clear as day – “Mama!”. Then I heard it several more times throughout the night. He says each syllable very distinctly and perfectly. I didn’t think it mattered to me so much. I know that he knows who I am. I know that I am one of two people he holds onto when he is unsure. I know that he loves his Mama. But there is something about hearing your child calling you by name that can’t help but explode your heart open even wider. Instead, I entitled the post a very creative, “More Boston” so my Mom wouldn’t expect a video of him saying “Mama” and “Daddy”. It’s elusive, but one day I will capture it.
Other non-captured things include something I love about him sleeping in the room with us. He wakes up, sees us, and smiles and coos a happy little sound. It’s not really an infant coo I guess, it’s almost a laugh – but not quite a laugh. It’s his happy sound. And then we scoop him up and put him in bed with us and most days we have a short time of lazing around and him putting his feet up in the air, and taking turns rolling onto one or the other of us. We also have a new game. One of us pretends to be asleep, and when we start snoring, Brendan comes and wakes us up. He is so gleeful when we ‘wake up’ with a start. I love it. I am aware that this game may backfire on us one day.
We also got to spend an evening with two of Rob’s closest friends – Zip, and his wife Pepper and son Leo (20 months) – and then Rick, and his wife Lynna. We were told that they still have their two children, and the evidence of pictures seems to support this statement, but it was late and the kids were in bed. We devised a plan where we would go over to their house after Brendan was asleep. A fine plan, until Rob’s sister called us on the way over and said that he was up and crying. We called the house, and when I heard my sons cry even though Rob was the one on the phone, it was all I could do not to tell him to turn the car around. Or to run/hitch hike/catch a moving train back to him as fast as I could. It’s not that I don’t trust his Grandparents to comfort him – it’s that it pains me not to be with him even when he’s happy – but when I know he’s sad, it’s pure torture. We received a fast update that he had fallen asleep on Grandpa’s lap, and Grandma had easily gotten him back to bed. At that point, I had a glass of wine and enjoyed all 45 minutes of our visit. It was really amazing to see Leo and Brendan playing at Zip’s house – and to realize that these two boys had grown up probably envisioning that exact moment. Do boys do that? I don’t know… but I imagined it for them. We even had pizza, and the boys kicked a little soccer ball around. I KNOW boys picture their kids doing stuff like that. It was really great to see both families – and I’m sad that I didn’t get many pictures (a few iphone ones, and one movie that may make an appearance).
Things that WERE documented:
First haircut in Uncle Johnny’s shop. (he was not the most cooperative client):
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Jumping on Grandma and Grandpa’s Bed:
Ice Cream at Richardson’s:
The trip for ice cream happened after we picked up Brett from school. It was sort of a last minute plan – Rob had said he wanted to do something special with the boys, and we decided to surprise Brett by meeting him at school on his second day – and then all of us went for ice cream and fun on the farm. My favorite part of this was watching Brett realize we were there. He was excited to see all of us, but made a b-line for Brendan. He introduced Brendan to all of his friends, “this is my cousin Brendan – he’s a baby” and then introduced Uncle Robby, “And this is my Uncle Robby – he is the one who makes Star Wars.”. This was followed by questions of, “Seriously??!?!” and we found out later that Brett had told all the kids that his Uncle made Star Wars, but they couldn’t believe it.
When we piled into the THREE cars to get to ice cream, Brett wanted to ride with us. But rather than sitting in one of the big back seats, he chose to buckle himself into the middle section so that he could sit right next to Brendan. He cracked him up the whole time, and also told us a little about his class room.
I know I’m forgetting precious moments, and not properly telling the ones I’m remembering – but if I don’t get something down, I’ll forget even more. And right now my husband and a purple popcicle are waiting for me in the other room.