Dear Birthday boys,
Having a bit of insomnia so I thought I'd catch up and write about your fun day yesterday and the day before too! I have to go back to work tomorrow and I always get a little anxious about it but I am looking forward to seeing everyone.
Your birthday party was great fun yesterday! Your dad rented a bouncy house (dragon) and all the kids and several adults enjoyed that! It was a very hot day though so must people just sat around quietly Your Granpa K and Grandma were there, Uncle Don and Auntie Kim, Sean and Missy, Kim S and Jack, maria and her husband, Dave(Papa) and Deb and Tyler, me and Uncle Joe, Donny M (your dad's friend.)
Uncle Joe and I got there early to help out because your ad was worried about Dylan being sick. He threw up a couple of times. I read a story with the Leap Frog device..I never did that before.
Sept. 4
I could hardly think the other night when I was trying to write! Since then, you guys came over last night and we had so much fun! Uncle Joe set up the train table in the living room. We had supper together, spaghetti for the adults, mac n cheese for you both with corn on the cob ad some left over meat from Uncle Joe's work party. While I made dinner, Uncle Joe played with you both upstairs and your dad told me all about your mom's new place in Bradford. He said you have a basement with a pool table and it was really cool! He was sad thought because it reminded hi of the house where we grew up. And ow your mom is living there without hi. I told him that at least you boys weren't going to be living in squalor somewhere (he was looking for sympathy and I wasn't giving too much! ( reminded him of the commandment "Thy shall not covet thy neighbor's goods." He said "What about your soon to be ex wife's goods?" I told him that he ca have bigger and better ta whatever your mother has. Anyway, after the failed attempt at the pity party we had a great time! Noah helps me water my plants and then we danced with the James Brown doll. Dylan gets SO excited! It is really hilarious. Then we did the Funky Bluesy ABC song and Dylan was so excited he ran downstairs to get Uncle joe to come listen! (He was cleaning the kitchen-what a good man dos when the wife makes dinner.) Both of you were trying to sing the alphabet with the music. It wa so much fun. Then I read a story to you both, "Too Much Noise" which I read last time you were here. Dylan remembered and yelled, "Too noisy!" when he saw the book. Noah was making all the animal sounds except he couldn't do the chicken. I also noticed when we were spelling our names on the chalkboard he couldn't pronounce the "l" in Dylan.
We ad fun boxing with the puppets, too. the we watched the movies on the computer reform the birth party and form the ABC song. Noah got all weirded out when he saw the glowing eyes in many shots of him and Ruby, too. he looked like a Demon boy. I explained about the lights in the camera and he seemed reasonably satisfied with that, and accepted that he had not been possessed.
Last week, at he birthday party I made you both take a nap before the party while your dad was shopping. You both screamed bloody murder for about one minute and then you were out. I sent a text message to Uncle Joe to deliver the newspaper so I could read it in there.(your bedroom) Your dad had come home and they were busy setting up for the party.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
August 5, 2010 Throwing Rocks at Mosely Woods
Yesterday we met you bot with your dad at Mosley Woods. I'm in charge of organizing the summer concert series. So while the music was playing we played in the playground and then Dylan and I went for a walk. Although Dylan ran ahead of me through the crowd...straight to the river which at that part of the park is a cliff! I grabbed his hand just before he started to climb a giant boulder overlooking the river. We climbed together and looked at the water. Dylan was able to say "water" "boats and from there we walked down the path towards the little swimming hold I go to with the dogs and we threw rocks in the water. I farted once and Dylan said, "What was that?" looking at me confused. That was the first more than two word question I've ever heard him ask! Then Uncle Joe and Noah showed up and we had a rock throwing contest. Noah was very verbal all evening, talking up a blue streak about throwing rocks, throwing baseballs, half, or most of which I did not understand. We got popsicles at the ice-cream truck afterwards and sat on the railroad ties. Noah and I chatted happily but Dylan had a look in his eye like he wanted to run to the river again. The ice cream truck man got a kick out of us talking since he has four nephews the same age.
Monday, August 2, 2010 4PM "Scawey Guy and Dylan vs. Dylan
Dear Boys,
Not your average day for you and you Dad. He called me to tell about a very upsetting sight you were all unfortunate to see. A man was hanging from a tree limb in the woods at Lake Winnekinni Park. Your dad took you both for a walk early this morning when're he usually meets your mom on Mondays to switch custody before he goes to work. He took you out on the trail by the lake and both of you were telling him "Scary guy!" but he couldn't see it yet. Finally he looked and saw a guy standing there, jut not moving. Then you dad go closer and saw what had happened. He called 911 and they told him to get out of the woods with his kids fast. So your dad picked you both up and ran as fast as he could to the parking lot where your mom was waiting and all kinds of emergency vehicles arrived. He had to walk the police and paramedics down to the body to show them where it was. Dylan was still traumatized this afternoon. Hopefully, you will be unaffected by that since you didn't see up close, but having to run out of the woods like that with a scared/nervous father will probably not leave you unscathed. I suggested he talks you back for a walk again as soon as possible to try to recreate positive images there in the woods. I also told him to talk to his therapist because I think he would be the most affected, being so close and not exactly being in the best emotional state he's been in lately to begin with. I was distraught just hearing about it and visualizing form your dad's description. Kept thinking about it while swimming at th YWCA.
Things are not looking good for your mom and dad after a bit of a roller coaster ride this past month. They;ve been taking you places together even SToryland for a few days but then your mom drops your dad off and take you guys home and he is left feeling sad again. This has been very very hard for him. The good news it that he actually had a date! He met a divorced woman and her little gl at Lake Gardner and asked her out after seeing her again there. So far only one date, your dad didn't think there was a "love connection" on her part but he also met a friend of his friend Maria that he really liked. He hasn't heard yet if she's interested though. She wa at a birthday party for Mari'as kids that you were both at. I was so happy when he had th first date. Her name was Andra and her husband had cheated on her when her daughter Abby was only one year old. I was there when they met and so were you. We were playing in the water with the water shooters. Abby walked over to e and gave me her pinwheel. She was so sweet! In my head, I had the marriage already arranged with pinwheels for centerpieces at the wedding Daddy saw them again yesterday at the Yankee Homecoming Parade but no plans to get together. I haven't given up on this yet though!!
I saw all 3 of you yesterday at Auntie Susan's. She had a party to introduce her daughter's new boyfriend to all her friends and family she ran into you guys in the supermarket earlier. ( I was glad to find out your dad was buying groceries after I just gave him hell for taking you guys to too many fast food joints. I was worried at first that you wouldn't come out of your shell because you were so clingy with your dad for the first half hour or so. But you both did, no holds barred ( I think that's the expression.) I had the two of you plus another boy named Dylan tackling me to the ground in the backyard. It was so much fun! However, at first when Dylan K met the other Dylan, it wasn't so pretty. Dylan K knocked off theater boy's cowboy hat and he yelled at him. I tried to get you to apologize but you just gave me an evil smirk and made some gurlgly sounds The wrong Dylan apologized! Rather than make a scene I finally gave in and let you go telling you to be nice. Plus, I didn't want to take you dad's job away from him. As it turned out, the other Dylan was just as "naughty" grabby giant sticks and throwing rocks. His mom had to be on him the whole time. He was just a couple months older than you both. One lady brough bubbles so we had fun with that , too.
Not your average day for you and you Dad. He called me to tell about a very upsetting sight you were all unfortunate to see. A man was hanging from a tree limb in the woods at Lake Winnekinni Park. Your dad took you both for a walk early this morning when're he usually meets your mom on Mondays to switch custody before he goes to work. He took you out on the trail by the lake and both of you were telling him "Scary guy!" but he couldn't see it yet. Finally he looked and saw a guy standing there, jut not moving. Then you dad go closer and saw what had happened. He called 911 and they told him to get out of the woods with his kids fast. So your dad picked you both up and ran as fast as he could to the parking lot where your mom was waiting and all kinds of emergency vehicles arrived. He had to walk the police and paramedics down to the body to show them where it was. Dylan was still traumatized this afternoon. Hopefully, you will be unaffected by that since you didn't see up close, but having to run out of the woods like that with a scared/nervous father will probably not leave you unscathed. I suggested he talks you back for a walk again as soon as possible to try to recreate positive images there in the woods. I also told him to talk to his therapist because I think he would be the most affected, being so close and not exactly being in the best emotional state he's been in lately to begin with. I was distraught just hearing about it and visualizing form your dad's description. Kept thinking about it while swimming at th YWCA.
Things are not looking good for your mom and dad after a bit of a roller coaster ride this past month. They;ve been taking you places together even SToryland for a few days but then your mom drops your dad off and take you guys home and he is left feeling sad again. This has been very very hard for him. The good news it that he actually had a date! He met a divorced woman and her little gl at Lake Gardner and asked her out after seeing her again there. So far only one date, your dad didn't think there was a "love connection" on her part but he also met a friend of his friend Maria that he really liked. He hasn't heard yet if she's interested though. She wa at a birthday party for Mari'as kids that you were both at. I was so happy when he had th first date. Her name was Andra and her husband had cheated on her when her daughter Abby was only one year old. I was there when they met and so were you. We were playing in the water with the water shooters. Abby walked over to e and gave me her pinwheel. She was so sweet! In my head, I had the marriage already arranged with pinwheels for centerpieces at the wedding Daddy saw them again yesterday at the Yankee Homecoming Parade but no plans to get together. I haven't given up on this yet though!!
I saw all 3 of you yesterday at Auntie Susan's. She had a party to introduce her daughter's new boyfriend to all her friends and family she ran into you guys in the supermarket earlier. ( I was glad to find out your dad was buying groceries after I just gave him hell for taking you guys to too many fast food joints. I was worried at first that you wouldn't come out of your shell because you were so clingy with your dad for the first half hour or so. But you both did, no holds barred ( I think that's the expression.) I had the two of you plus another boy named Dylan tackling me to the ground in the backyard. It was so much fun! However, at first when Dylan K met the other Dylan, it wasn't so pretty. Dylan K knocked off theater boy's cowboy hat and he yelled at him. I tried to get you to apologize but you just gave me an evil smirk and made some gurlgly sounds The wrong Dylan apologized! Rather than make a scene I finally gave in and let you go telling you to be nice. Plus, I didn't want to take you dad's job away from him. As it turned out, the other Dylan was just as "naughty" grabby giant sticks and throwing rocks. His mom had to be on him the whole time. He was just a couple months older than you both. One lady brough bubbles so we had fun with that , too.
May 10, 2010: YWCA Swim Lesson
Buenas noches! I'm a little tired and cranky tonight (and just walked your Uncle Joe with a pillow.) but wanted to write you before I forgot a couple of details/parts of stories:
1) We had swimming lesson #2 and Uncle Joe and Grandpa went to observe. Uncle Joe filmed the whole lesson! With the song Pop Goes the Weasel i had a choice to throw Dylan up or dunk him and I went for the dunk. He didn't like that one bit. He was shocked but recovered almost instantly and regained the shit-eating grin he had plastered on his face the entire time, despite the ever increasing blue lips. Noah was cold and whining much of the time. It was a tad cooler in there than the last time. The instructor wasn't as good either.. I was bummed we didn't do "Wheels on the Bus." She had a really smooth routine going with several fun songs. The new instructor just didn't have the same charisma. The screaming started in the dressing room, total bedlam- 4 adults and 2 toddlers all trying to find two sets of shoes, socks, t-shirts and shoes and maintain sanity at the same time. On the way out, Noah must have been observing Grandpa Kudym because he started shuffling his feet just like him. Uncle Joe and I just looked at each other in disbelief.
Back at the house, I dug up what I could find to make lunch-egg noodles, creamy cheese parm sauce, tuna and a can of clam chowder and put it all together. Noah kept saying, "Good pasta!" and Dylan chowed down as well. They also ate a bunch of baby carrots. Afterwards we had a family nap (extended family) on the couch. Uncle Joe and Dylan feel asleep on one section and Noah fell asleep on the other side between Daddy and Auntie Kim. Daddy got up to read the paper while the rest of us slept and Grandpa Kudym snuck out despite losing his special glaucoma sunglasses.
2) Your daddy finally had a chance to express anger towards your mom. He said some things he's been wanting to say for a long time. It's probably a good thing, a step towards moving on and hopefully becoming civil towards each other down the road.
3) Your dad brought you guys to Moseley Woods and ran into your Aunt Jackie and her son Jack Jr and you all played together. He was born in the same hospital down the same hall a couple days after you guys were there. Only your mom didn't want to visit her..the beginning of the relationship demise between your Grandma B and Mom.
1) We had swimming lesson #2 and Uncle Joe and Grandpa went to observe. Uncle Joe filmed the whole lesson! With the song Pop Goes the Weasel i had a choice to throw Dylan up or dunk him and I went for the dunk. He didn't like that one bit. He was shocked but recovered almost instantly and regained the shit-eating grin he had plastered on his face the entire time, despite the ever increasing blue lips. Noah was cold and whining much of the time. It was a tad cooler in there than the last time. The instructor wasn't as good either.. I was bummed we didn't do "Wheels on the Bus." She had a really smooth routine going with several fun songs. The new instructor just didn't have the same charisma. The screaming started in the dressing room, total bedlam- 4 adults and 2 toddlers all trying to find two sets of shoes, socks, t-shirts and shoes and maintain sanity at the same time. On the way out, Noah must have been observing Grandpa Kudym because he started shuffling his feet just like him. Uncle Joe and I just looked at each other in disbelief.
Back at the house, I dug up what I could find to make lunch-egg noodles, creamy cheese parm sauce, tuna and a can of clam chowder and put it all together. Noah kept saying, "Good pasta!" and Dylan chowed down as well. They also ate a bunch of baby carrots. Afterwards we had a family nap (extended family) on the couch. Uncle Joe and Dylan feel asleep on one section and Noah fell asleep on the other side between Daddy and Auntie Kim. Daddy got up to read the paper while the rest of us slept and Grandpa Kudym snuck out despite losing his special glaucoma sunglasses.
2) Your daddy finally had a chance to express anger towards your mom. He said some things he's been wanting to say for a long time. It's probably a good thing, a step towards moving on and hopefully becoming civil towards each other down the road.
3) Your dad brought you guys to Moseley Woods and ran into your Aunt Jackie and her son Jack Jr and you all played together. He was born in the same hospital down the same hall a couple days after you guys were there. Only your mom didn't want to visit her..the beginning of the relationship demise between your Grandma B and Mom.
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