A Wild Weekend!

Ok- not really.

Since the weekend started on Thursday, well my weekend I should say, it has been full of interesting moments. Jim worked Friday and Saturday so his only day off was today.

I will share a few with you in this very little bit of precious blog time, the first all weekend. As I type Ean has finally been "beaten" to sleep, as Jim likes to say (he doesn't really beat him of course just out stubborns him), and Ben is watching a 30 minute On Demand show of Children Songs, AKA my "secret potion".

As you know Thursday was Thanksgiving. We bought our Turkey Dinner from a restaraunt this year, Mimi's, and it was good. We did make a ham and candied yams too though as well as appetizers. The dinner that we bought was everything from the Turkey fully cooked and seasoned to the pumpkin pie and whipped cream. We just had to reheat everything, which turned out to make as many dishes as if we made everything ourselves. The great part though was we didn't have to start "cooking" until 12:30pm for a 3pm dinner time. We only had 9 people including us and it was a great time. Our guests included my dad, step-mom Shaunah, brothers Cooper and David and Jim's mom.

Oh, I have to back track. On Wednesday night after the nanny left we noticed our "extra" fridge had chilled its last cola and we decided we needed a new one, especially since the next day was the biggest eating day of the year. A family of four shouldn't need an extra fridge but we do. I like to justify it by saying how we buy our meat at Costco in bulk and we need the room to store it and drinks like water ans sodas, but in reality we REALLY DO NEED IT. I can't imagine going back to only one fridge, I would have to be a lot more organized and thoughtful when I shop and I am just not that disaplined. So anyway we go to buy a fridge, Ean had been wearing underwear for almost a whole 24 hours with only one minor accident, and right before we left he had another accident but with time not so little (#2). Since we figured it was out of his system I put another pair of underwear on him and headed out to Lowes. I did however have the forethought to grab a change of pants and a pull up just in case. When we were discussing the fridges Ean was gently trying to interupt by saying quietly "mommy look it, mommy look it", like any diligant mother, I ignored him so what now seems like several minutes but may have only been one until finally I asked" what Ean?". In an embarrased and sheepish tone he replied "I pooped". I couldn't believe it. I would never had expected two in a row so quick together, looking back I guess he wasn't done from the first one and only stopped b/c he had to underwear on. I ran to the car which was parked WAY out in the lot b/c we brought the trailer and I told the boys to stay there thinking the bathroom was closer to where they already were. When I got back, Jim went up to buy the fridge and we went looking for the bathroom. Turns out it was on the opposite end of the store and Ean had to walk in his fully loaded boxer briefs all the way. By the time we arrived in the bathroom I still had no idea how I was going to get him cleaned up since I didn't have any wipes with me, and had no idea how bad it was. When I started to take his shoe off I quickly learned. Without sharing too much detail the boxer briefs did nothing to hold the mixture of diarreah and hard in and it ran all the way down BOTH legs. I had to have Jim buy handy wipes and 30-40 minutes later I immerged from the bathroom with a fairly clean little boy and one grossed out mom. The cute thing was now that Ean is talking A LOT, he talked to me the whole time cleaning him up, in his embarrased,nice as can be little voice.

Friday, in the morning I got up before dawn and headed to Toys r Us, not to shop but to instead work pulling carts in from the parking lot with the Rainbow Girls. We did that from 7am until 12pm. After which, I came home and Jim went to work. That night we went to dinner at probably my most favorite place, Tokyo Garden's, the place where they cook your food at your table on a grill right in front of you. The boys seemed to like it and since it is noisy in there it was the perfect place to take them.

Saturday (yesterday), Jim worked and the only thing we did since it was kind of cold and the malls were too crowded was went to check progress of the painting Jim was doing. I will have to post pictures of that another day since they are on Jim's camera. In the afternoon I called to see if Kristen wanted to come for the evening so Jim and I could have a date. She was fine with it so we went to a restaurant called La Dolce Vita, we had never gone before and I read in the paper that the guy that owns it and runs it is closing business so I wanted to try it. It is the coolest place, the guy the owns it is also the chef, waiter and dishwasher. He runs it like you are at his house for dinner. You get what he makes, there are no menus, no prices he just asks if you are allergic to anything and you get what he feels like making that night. Also, he doesn't allow children and if he doesn't like you he will not let you eat. He doesn't have set times or hours, if the sign outside says "Not Tired", then that means he is open. It was WONDERFUL food. We had FOUR coarses and actually got to witness him regecting people. After dinner we saw the movie Deja Vu, it was really good.


....... I had to quit writing this because Ben's movie ended, but I am going to post it anyway. I didn't go back and re-read it either so if I missed something I will post it later. Sorry, for the hap-hazardness.

Thanksgiving Table,