Solo day and family trip... two, two, two reports in ONE!

[bumbershoot]

Sherry, I don't know, as we didn't go to PL(OTSI) this trip. I don't think there are pirates other than the Bootstrappers there, and I didn't see or hear them at all during our trip.

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

I heard the Bootstrappers got the boot too (ha, boot).

I didn't see them 2 weeks ago. I wasn't looking either. But I didn't see them.

 

[Sherry E]

Sherry, I don't know, as we didn't go to PL(OTSI) this trip. I don't think there are pirates other than the Bootstrappers there, and I didn't see or hear them at all during our trip.

I heard the Bootstrappers got the boot too (ha, boot).

I didn't see them 2 weeks ago. I wasn't looking either. But I didn't see them.

Drat! Darn these girls gone wild at DL who can't keep their shirts on and likely scared DLR into firing all the Jack Sparrows! He is definitely a popular character, so that original reason DLR gave about why he was going away was BS. They said something about decreasing popularity (I am paraphrasing). If anything, he is a little TOO popular. But, frankly, of the couple of Jacks I saw in DL, they weren't Johnny Depp-level hot, so it's funny to me that they are inciting such responses.

 

[bumbershoot]

But, frankly, of the couple of Jacks I saw in DL, they weren't Johnny Depp-level hot, so it's funny to me that they are inciting such responses.

I know!

But I think, from seeing how people responded to various "pirate" groups at the Tall Ships festival this summer in my city, that pirates just have a *thing* to them, and it's only been made stronger by JD.

I personally never saw people freaking out over him, though they did follow him, but if he would have stood still they wouldn't have had to do that. I mean, Peter Pan had people following him, but he was *talking* to them, telling them (us) where he was going.

I was always the first to say "he's a pirate, he'll act like a pirate, don't expect him to be Mickey Mouse or Cinderella", but on the other hand, you don't wind up with people freaking out about seeing you if you just *stay in one place*.

I actually got guilty the other week, wondering if maybe the character people at Disney corporate had seen my posts about how very pirate-y he was, especially my story where he turned his back on the family and didn't pay them any mind after the mom was rude to him. Worked out well for us (and famograham who was one or two people in front of us, unbeknownst to either of us!) b/c we were in the line he moved on to, but I'm sure the rude lady didn't think she was being rude (but she WAS). Anyway, I started worrying that that behaviour was floating under the radar until I started warning people.

Then I snapped out of it, realizing that Disney most likely doesn't read my posts, LOL. But if they DO, oh John Lasseter, we are big fans and I would be happy to work for Pixar in any capacity, just as long as I get a chance to speak in front of those in charge of voice casting. Call me!

 

[bumbershoot]

So we had gone on our failed trip to the moon of Endor (is Endor a moon, or is the place where Ewoks live the moon OF Endor? so confusing).

My note-taking fell by the wayside at this point. From a blurry picture I have, it seems we went on Buzz Lightyear, and Eamon (I"m remembering now, yes we did go then) ROCKED the score. Almost did as well as Robert, and beat me entirely.

Then came the Buzz gift shop and I'd like to forget that, b/c *every* giftshop experience on this trip was horrid. So la la la I'm not remembering...I think NEXT time we're giving him Disney Dollars and letting him buy whatever he wants and call it good. Harumph.

As we might recall, the parades were at weird times that weekend, so people were already starting to crowd around for the parade just after 1. It was just after noon! I remember Robert getting woozy (recall NO coffee) and I got to make the decision of where to go, so I sternly told them to FOLLOW ME and I went to my fave latte stand, the one just outside the castle. Ahhhh, lattes, my sweet lovely lattes. And a cookie for Eamon. Cookies as big as your head, of course!

We stood there for a few minutes, slurping our manna, er, caffeine. Then moved along. Only 20 minutes after the latte purchase we were only at the Main Street Fruit Cart, where Robert ran over and got a water.

Now here's our secret (not so much) shame. We drank almost NO water on this trip. Since we don't drink sodas and very little juice, that meant almost no liquid. Bad bad bad! Is it any wonder E is sick? We had all the best intentions, to run to the store and get a case, but then it just seemed like things were moving too fast, our feet were too tired, etc. It just didn't happen.

In addition, each water purchase bugged us. Why? Because we had not budgeted with giftcards. Another BAD decision. This is what happens when Robert is in charge of the money, which he was, b/c I didn't know where my debit card was. Turns out it was at home sitting on the counter, but we didn't know that, so we reported it lost and I had to use a check at the post office today. So instead of plunking down x dollars on a giftcard and calling it good, we had to buy each thing in a separate card transaction, and that really messes with our heads. NEVER AGAIN, I tell you, um, if I remember this moment.


So we got water and that was good. Made our way out of Disneyland.

A good person would have gone back to the hotel at this point. We are (still) not good people and I don't know why! We know better. But we all, Eamon too, just get so excited to be there, and going to the hotel feels like punishment. The guys had total "permission" (or rather, knowledge that no permission was needed) to go back to swim, but they both remembered how cold that pool was during our first stay, and they never wanted to swim.

So we headed to DCA.

I'm not too sure what we might have done immediately, but soon enough we realized there were extreme hunger problems. I was getting absolutely no help in the food department, so of course I steered us to the Wine Country Trattoria.

Hubby and I shared a side salad and a Caprese Sandwich, which Eamon had the Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Everyone was very happy with the food, as usual, and it made me think "hmm, maybe a free dining plan at WDW might not be so awful, especially if the trip is long enough that we don't feel the need to rush around all day every day!". We did have water when we ate in restaurants...just not enough.

Much happier E with mouth full>>

Grapes were from our Caprese plate, but you can see a suspicious lack of crusts. E is a very typical little kid and doesn't "like" crusts. But he ate that entire sandwich, crusts and all! This pic is when he was halfway done>>

Much happier, around 2pm, we left WCT and made our way around to Condor Flats. Just in case, we snagged Soarin' FPs, then made our way to....Grizzly!

We were enormously happy to see that E was well over the mark! Oh how I wish I had gotten video of this, but I wasn't totally aware it was happening until it was almost over, but Eamon did a "I'm big enough for Grizzly dance" for a good minute.

Here's just one frame of it>>

He wanted to have a picture taken with the measuring stick. Of course he crunched down, you can see the odd posture. Silly kid.

So. What was the verdict on this most anticipated ride?

Best Ride Ever. That's my boy.....

He loved LOVED it. He loved riding with the other families (as do I, as does Robert). There's something wondrous about sharing the experience with strangers. Robert knows the ride really well and would warn people that they were going to get sprayed while going up the hill, but he NEVER warned me! I kept getting chatty and getting mouthfuls. EW.

I went on with them FOUR times in a row. I had a poncho, they didn't. No that's not true; we all had them, they just chose to not use them. Each time, of course, we got wetter.

I think this was after the third time through. Blue bunders and beige linen pants (consignment, baby!) perhaps NOT the best combo?

For some reason I chose to sit their last ride out, and I took pictures.

On that ride, they got drenched. Obviously, since they were both sitting in the doorway! I have a feeling that was on purpose.




Happy kid.

 

[bumbershoot]

Now I will tell you how prepared I was.


I had a blanket (from last year's trip), I had wool socks and his Crocs to exchange for his cotton socks and athletic shoes, I had a sweatshirt. I had this all with me, so that when he got off his last ride (#5) totally soaked, he could have a chance at not freezing.

This is before the sweatshirt went on>>

We went back to PPH, and that's when this picture was taken>>

Something I noticed while on the very first Grizzly ride was that the water BURNED my shins. Ruh roh. By the time we got back to the hotel it was *still* burning and I had red lines on the skin that does, I admit, sometimes get a bit cracked in the cold weather. But burning? That doesn't normally happen.

So I made everyone bathe, to get the Grizzly water off of us. DS of course was done first, and here he is all warm and cozy, after finding the "tinkerbell present" on the bed.

Of course he KNEW about this stuffed Mickey b/c he went snooping. In MY house growing up snooping was punishable by pain of not getting any presents. My mom never had to follow through, because we were too worried about that punishment. But Eamon has us, or rather Robert (who nearly FAINTED when he heard me say that about "found presents are returned presents"), figured out and he is almost totally sure it's not going to happen.

Sigh. Totally our fault. Gotta pull us out of this accidental "only child" hole asap!


All clean, dry, dressed, and de-Grizzlied, we went down for dinner. Specifically, to PCH Grill because Eamon wanted the make-your-own pizza there.

We got stopped in the lobby to have our Big Kahuna pictures taken, but those will NOT be posted here b/c, well, I don't want to. I haven't even looked at them. When your husband, who knows very well how painful it is to be told "darling you need to lose some weight", says that it will, basically, make a good before picture (it's OK that he says it, totally OK, wanted, actually!), and that I was awfully red from the day in the overcast sun, you KNOW you do NOT want to see that picture.

So the picture was taken and balloons were given.

But before that we saw the tree and Eamon got worried by the carol singers.

And Eamon was trapped by the Santa chair.

Lei and cool balloons!

You've already seen the video of my glowy drink, and here's this year's "eamon making his pizza" picture>>

I had the quesadilla without the chicken, and it was very good though rather spicy. The waiter tried to tell me it was, but I just figured "eh, 'mild' chiles won't be bad" but oh, it was spicy. The salsa was delicious and fresh, as was the avocado/guacamole.

Hubby had a burger with a veggie patty subbed, and it was very good too.

And that was that, we decided to head back to the hotel to spend some time in the suite! It was only 7:15, but we were wiped out!

When we got back to the room, we had a plate with 3 Mickey cookies waiting for us. They were NOT very good, but hey, they were some form of mild and boring chocolate on the ears, and they were cute. They lasted us until checkout.

Robert actually did go downstairs to get us (the adults) decaf coffees to go with the cookies, and came back with lattes, a Pixar themed coloring set for E, and a pair of mickey-head scrapbooking scissors for me. While in the giftshop, he met a Creative Memories consultant and asked what she thought I might want...she said that just about everything else there could be bought elsewhere, but the actual Disney stuff can only be bought at Disney, so the scissors were probably best. Lucky find for robert, eh?


We all went to bed early, or earlyish, which was nice.

 

[Sherry E]

Oh, so the cookies were the substitute for the Rice Krispy treats?

I love those close-up pictures of the ornaments! So pretty! I have seen that tree in the PPH before, and, while pretty, I guess I expect all DLR trees to be pretty (and sparkly), so I probably didn't even pay too much attention to it. It's nice to see some pictures of it that are a little different!

 

[bumbershoot]

Yep, they were substitutions! I don't get the krispy treat thing that Disney has. When talking with Chef Chris I got the strong impression that they want to be as good as possible for as many people as possible. And marshmallow things just destroy that. Unless you absolutely know what the gelatin in the marshmallow is made from, they've eliminated those who eat kosher, those of the other religions where pork is forbidden, and of course vegetarians. And if there's milk in that chocolate, even if the gelatin is safe, pork-wise, someone keeping kosher couldn't combine the gelatin and the dairy anyway. They are like THE most possibly offensive treat out there!

Now I know that many people find them to be good, and I think back in elementary school I was into them too, but still, in terms of a treat that can't be eaten by many groups of people, the marshmallow krispy treat wins, and I really don't think it should be their fall-back treat.

I was glad they had a sub, even if it wasn't very good! (they had what appeared to be white chocolate mickey faces on them, so we didn't eat those either, b/c white "chocolate" tends to have corn syrup and we all know that that wasn't going to be eaten by us)

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I love shiny ball ornaments. And lights. They make my eyes happy.

I didn't get any pix of the GCH tree, assuming that big dark thing in the big dark lobby was a tree, because I can't see in there and tend to hurry through.

I did think we would have time to roam the DLH lobby and grounds, but we didn't at all. I was sad about that.

 

[Sherry E]

Yep, they were substitutions! I don't get the krispy treat thing that Disney has. When talking with Chef Chris I got the strong impression that they want to be as good as possible for as many people as possible. And marshmallow things just destroy that. Unless you absolutely know what the gelatin in the marshmallow is made from, they've eliminated those who eat kosher, those of the other religions where pork is forbidden, and of course vegetarians. And if there's milk in that chocolate, even if the gelatin is safe, pork-wise, someone keeping kosher couldn't combine the gelatin and the dairy anyway. They are like THE most possibly offensive treat out there!

Now I know that many people find them to be good, and I think back in elementary school I was into them too, but still, in terms of a treat that can't be eaten by many groups of people, the marshmallow krispy treat wins, and I really don't think it should be their fall-back treat.

I was glad they had a sub, even if it wasn't very good! (they had what appeared to be white chocolate mickey faces on them, so we didn't eat those either, b/c white "chocolate" tends to have corn syrup and we all know that that wasn't going to be eaten by us)

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I love shiny ball ornaments. And lights. They make my eyes happy.

I didn't get any pix of the GCH tree, assuming that big dark thing in the big dark lobby was a tree, because I can't see in there and tend to hurry through.

I did think we would have time to roam the DLH lobby and grounds, but we didn't at all. I was sad about that.

Yep, the big dark thing in the GCH lobby is the tree! It is a beautiful tree, which can be observed when sitting very close to it, but I agree - it is very dimly lit in that lobby. Previous attempts to photograph that tree by me or other friends have come out, well, dark! So it is not a good tree for pictures necessarily, unless you have really high end equipment with flashes that will illuminate the whole lobby! But it is a nice tree to sit by!

I never got really into the Rice Krispy treat craze, either. I have nothign against them and I would eat the Mickey treats if they left them in my room, but that is not one of the treats I am craving when I go there. I could take it or leave it. I would probably rather have a magnet or an ornament of that Mickey Rice Krispy treat than the actual treat itself!

 

[bumbershoot]

Ooh an ornament or magnet would have been brilliant!!! I love magnets. And keychains. Love them so much.

I've never been much of a collector, but when I first started working for amazon I would see so many fun things while helping customers, and I started buying all these super-fun keychains that were homages to games. I had Sorry, I have Donkey Kong, a keychain of a tiny fridge with tinier fridge magnets, a Colorforms keychain and a lite brite one! So much fun. But I had to stop collecting those since DS has been around, since they make him jealous, LOL, I'm selfish about them (call me crazy, but I don't like it when he breaks our stuff!), and the money is funneled more towards him.

Anyway, I love keychains and magnets and having one of those instead of the treats would have been a million times better!

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

Of course he KNEW about this stuffed Mickey b/c he went snooping. In MY house growing up snooping was punishable by pain of not getting any presents. My mom never had to follow through, because we were too worried about that punishment. But Eamon has us, or rather Robert (who nearly FAINTED when he heard me say that about "found presents are returned presents"), figured out and he is almost totally sure it's not going to happen.

Sigh. Totally our fault. Gotta pull us out of this accidental "only child" hole asap!

My parents were the same way when I was kid when I snooped through presents. I'm an only child too and my Mom used to tell me if I snooped, no presents. I snooped anyways and still got presents. It wasn't until I got a bit older I realized I was ruining it for myself, so I stopped. I'm sure though, if I had siblings, my Mom would have went through with the you-don't-get-the-present-if-you-snoop punishment because she wouldn't feel as bad knowing another kid would get to open their presents.

 

[Sherry E]

Ooh an ornament or magnet would have been brilliant!!! I love magnets. And keychains. Love them so much.

I've never been much of a collector, but when I first started working for amazon I would see so many fun things while helping customers, and I started buying all these super-fun keychains that were homages to games. I had Sorry, I have Donkey Kong, a keychain of a tiny fridge with tinier fridge magnets, a Colorforms keychain and a lite brite one! So much fun. But I had to stop collecting those since DS has been around, since they make him jealous, LOL, I'm selfish about them (call me crazy, but I don't like it when he breaks our stuff!), and the money is funneled more towards him.

Anyway, I love keychains and magnets and having one of those instead of the treats would have been a million times better!

Ooooh! All those keychains sound adorable! I loved Colorforms and Lite Brite! I bet there is a keychain for Easy Bake Ovens too! And Twister! Gotta have one of those! Along those same lines, I have a Scrabble keychain, an Etch-a-Sketch keychain and a Rubik's Cube keychain!! (I was a bit of a keychain and magnet maniac for a while, but my souvenir obsessions come and go!) I assume you saw the recent merchandise thread where DizneyDogs posted a picture of the adorable Mickey food item keychains (like Mickey shaped donuts and other pastries), and I posted pictures of the Mickey food item magnets (like the Mickey lollipop, Mickey ice cream bar and Mickey chocolate covered pretzel, as well as gingerbread cookie Mickey magnet)?

 

[bumbershoot]

My parents were the same way when I was kid when I snooped through presents. I'm an only child too and my Mom used to tell me if I snooped, no presents. I snooped anyways and still got presents. It wasn't until I got a bit older I realized I was ruining it for myself, so I stopped. I'm sure though, if I had siblings, my Mom would have went through with the you-don't-get-the-present-if-you-snoop punishment because she wouldn't feel as bad knowing another kid would get to open their presents.

I sure do hope he realizes he's ruining it. He already has ruined it, sort of, because, well let me back up.

Anyone who knows me (or reads posts on other forums on the Dis) knows that I don't "do" the Santa thing. Didn't grow up with it, not interested in doing it. Alas, my kid has decided he Believes. I don't know how he managed that, given me as his mudda, but he has. So he's anticipating a Santa present.

You can ask Robert and he'll tell you that in a way I've already acclimated to this, and I've held Santa over his head, figuratively, a couple times already as an easy way to get him to do something (or stop doing something). And I cracked up when I did it and said "omg no wonder parents do this, it makes life so easy!" LOL. Robert just shook his head in shock, but secretly I think he likes it.

So anyway, Santa presents are usually fun, right? Not this year, since I don't want to ruin his fun and NOT do a Santa present. But the kid went snooping and asked what else was in the Disney bag, along with his register (grr), and that he'd looked in the other bags but they only had, and I quote, "stupid clothes".

So you can guess what's coming from us (fun) and what's coming from Santa! Ya denigrate the clothes, that's what Santa brings, kid.

Plus, he LOVES clothes. Likes trying them on, buying them, having them. And he can tell that his long sleeved shirts are too short and that his pants are a bit tight at the waist, so he'll love them, he was just being poopy.

But still, since I know for sure that Robert would just die if I "canceled Yule and Christmas" (we do both, the former for us and the latter if Christian friends/relatives send presents) and I'm not totally sure if I could go through with it (gawd we're softies), he gets to find out that snooping is bad.

That said, I do have one present that he has NO clue about! I got it on my solo day last month and it's well hidden. He admired it when a kid was playing with it, but he never saw where it was sold so we never got to deal with him asking for it. Bwa ha ha ha ha.....

I bet there is a keychain for Easy Bake Ovens too! And Twister!


I assume you saw the recent merchandise thread where DizneyDogs posted a picture of the adorable Mickey food item keychains (like Mickey shaped donuts and other pastries), and I posted pictures of the Mickey food item magnets (like the Mickey lollipop, Mickey ice cream bar and Mickey chocolate covered pretzel, as well as gingerbread cookie Mickey magnet)?

Oh you're killing me... an EBOven keychain? I can't look for it, I can't.

Yes I saw it and I had to close the thread fast, lest I got off searching ebay.

 

[bumbershoot]

Augh, he just went snooping AGAIN, and found another little thing we got on this trip (Buzz lanyard). Dangit. He got a "go to your room" for that while Robert tried to talk me down from canceling yule. Robert's at work, as always on Saturdays, so it was via IM.

Don't know what I'll do. Robert says that E reads to his plush Mickey (tinkerbell present in previous pictures) every night, thumb wrestles with it and even lets Mickey win sometimes...they do the bedtime routine together...and that's really cute, so even though he was kind of "meh" about the Mickey when he got it, it seems he likes it...


Anyway, I have to do some decorating. I've done my surveys for the day from the rewards site I do, which is what usually keeps me at the computer for so long at a time, and I just have to do things around the house!

My reward for doing a bunch of organizing and decorating will be guilt-free dis (and mouseplanet and micechat and mothering and wherever else I want to go) time! And I'll start off the next story with hubby's amazing AM blood sugar reading, after a day spent at Disneyland and DCA.

 

[Sherry E]

Augh, he just went snooping AGAIN, and found another little thing we got on this trip (Buzz lanyard). Dangit. He got a "go to your room" for that while Robert tried to talk me down from canceling yule. Robert's at work, as always on Saturdays, so it was via IM.

Don't know what I'll do. Robert says that E reads to his plush Mickey (tinkerbell present in previous pictures) every night, thumb wrestles with it and even lets Mickey win sometimes...they do the bedtime routine together...and that's really cute, so even though he was kind of "meh" about the Mickey when he got it, it seems he likes it...

Anyway, I have to do some decorating. I've done my surveys for the day from the rewards site I do, which is what usually keeps me at the computer for so long at a time, and I just have to do things around the house!

My reward for doing a bunch of organizing and decorating will be guilt-free dis (and mouseplanet and micechat and mothering and wherever else I want to go) time! And I'll start off the next story with hubby's amazing AM blood sugar reading, after a day spent at Disneyland and DCA.

Oh my goodness, that is SO sweet that Eamon reads to Mickey every night, and then thumb wrestles him!! That is one of those things kids do that make people want to go up and pinch their cheeks and suddenly start babbling in incoherent, cutesy baby talk! How precious! It's not the Pirate Mickey that you got on your recent solo trip that he is wrestling with, right? It is the regular plush Mickey?

 

[bumbershoot]

No update tonight and no decorations, but I did lots of organization for E's home-preschool stuff so that's good. And gathered more "like items" of my own to try to organize in my own area, rather than intermingling my photo stuff with his maze books and workbooks (he loooooves workbooks!).

But the main thing I wanted to say is...it's SNOWING! Happens maybe once, every so often twice, a year in this part of western WA, so it's exciting when it happens. Especially since it's a weekend with nowhere to drive.

But we live surrounded by city hills, and I guess there was already an accident up the hill from us by 10pm, so it's always interesting to hear people try to get up and down the hills in our city-canyon...

E looked outside and announced it, then bounced up and down a bunch saying "I can't believe it! I can't believe my eyes!"

 

[bumbershoot]

Oh my goodness, that is SO sweet that Eamon reads to Mickey every night, and then thumb wrestles him!! That is one of those things kids do that make people want to go up and pinch their cheeks and suddenly start babbling in incoherent, cutesy baby talk! How precious! It's not the Pirate Mickey that you got on your recent solo trip that he is wrestling with, right? It is the regular plush Mickey?

It is too cute. I wish he'd told me before today that E has been doing that! Crazy Robert, keeping the cute stuff to himself when I give him a running commentary all day (through IM) of what E's up to.

It's not the pirate one, no, it's a bigger one. Got it on sale (yes!) at the Disney Store a few weeks ago.

 

[kaoden39]

No update tonight and no decorations, but I did lots of organization for E's home-preschool stuff so that's good. And gathered more "like items" of my own to try to organize in my own area, rather than intermingling my photo stuff with his maze books and workbooks (he loooooves workbooks!).

But the main thing I wanted to say is...it's SNOWING! Happens maybe once, every so often twice, a year in this part of western WA, so it's exciting when it happens. Especially since it's a weekend with nowhere to drive.

But we live surrounded by city hills, and I guess there was already an accident up the hill from us by 10pm, so it's always interesting to hear people try to get up and down the hills in our city-canyon...

E looked outside and announced it, then bounced up and down a bunch saying "I can't believe it! I can't believe my eyes!"

That is so cute.

 

[daisy_77]

No update tonight and no decorations, but I did lots of organization for E's home-preschool stuff so that's good. And gathered more "like items" of my own to try to organize in my own area, rather than intermingling my photo stuff with his maze books and workbooks (he loooooves workbooks!).

But the main thing I wanted to say is...it's SNOWING! Happens maybe once, every so often twice, a year in this part of western WA, so it's exciting when it happens. Especially since it's a weekend with nowhere to drive.

But we live surrounded by city hills, and I guess there was already an accident up the hill from us by 10pm, so it's always interesting to hear people try to get up and down the hills in our city-canyon...

E looked outside and announced it, then bounced up and down a bunch saying "I can't believe it! I can't believe my eyes!"

Aw, what a cutie. It is amazing at how excited kids get about snow. I grew up in Southern California. I only saw snow in the mountains and I always wished for a "white Christmas" and never got one . Now I am married and living in Boise and I wish it would stay in the mountains.

 

[bumbershoot]

Aw, what a cutie. It is amazing at how excited kids get about snow. I grew up in Southern California. I only saw snow in the mountains and I always wished for a "white Christmas" and never got one . Now I am married and living in Boise and I wish it would stay in the mountains.

I grew up in San Jose CA, and it snowed once, in '76, and melted by afternoon. There was just enough time for a snowball fight in the tanbark (aka beauty bark), and for a boy to scoop up some tanbark in his snowball and give me a black eye.


No update, just don't have the brain power for it. We got a tree though, at Home Depot, and a friend finally finagled me into seeing her Christmas Revels group perform. I'm just really not into it, but there were a couple cute scenes/sets/things, mainly involving kids and not really about xmas. Actually it was about Scotland this year, so there really weren't many Christian things at all, mostly their more ancient traditions, but still, I don't like live performances of music, unless it's U2 or Madonna or Duran Duran.


Then, because Eamon had spent so much time with Robert yesterday, and Robert lets E do things like leap off couches and jump jump jump on our wooden floor, E had the worst legache he's ever had at bedtime. Poor kid, he got it from both of us. I used to have drastically awful legaches, so bad that I was tested for Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, and hubby remembers growing pains from age 3 on, so he's destined for them I guess. Usually arnica and maybe some ice works, but not last night. Had to break out the western medicine, but since the kid's ibuprofen syrup we bought ages ago has corn syrup, E refused to drink it, and we had to break off a tiny bit of a 200mg pill (knowing that a teaspoon of the kid's stuff yielded 100mg, we were shooting for 50 mg, IF that), and he got to swallow his first pill ever. It worked very quickly and he slept very soundly (as do I when I take ibuprofen), but we didn't enjoy it! I was expressing my fears about cutting the bit off the pill, and Robert reminded me that that's what his family did when he was a kid, just cut a normal aspirin in half (hubby had migraines from age 3 up until he got under chiropractic care with me, so reyes (rye's?) syndrome be darned, they had to help him in SOME way, and aspirin was their way) and it was fine. I had some silly thoughts of "what if the mg of active ingredient were ONLY in that one end, and the rest was just filler, what if their mixing machines didn't work, it's all estimates blah blah blah", but honestly, for his age/weight the bottle was actually suggested two tsp, which would have been the 200mg of the pill anyway, so....

Anyway, it took him from screaming and writhing in pain (I used to writhe with the aches but I was never much for making more noise than needed, b/c to me it increased the pain of the leg aches) to snoring, so that's OK, but No More Jumping Barefoot Off Of The Couch!!!!!!!!!



In conclusion for now, an interesting light fixture.