Hi Kids!
So I printed out the reports I wrote for your days here this summer from 6/23-9/1. In September and October I only had you a total of ten days, I think since both your mom and dad had their separate work related vacation time to use or lose. Now we are back on track and you are trapped like rats with me on Mondays and Thursdays! Ho! Ho! I am having SO much fun with you both. We had the best Halloween! What a difference the year made. You were both very brave, running from house to house. Last year Dylan didn't even want to wear his costume. You were Iron Man and Transformer Man this year. (cheap ass store bought costs which were sadly very common, in particular those two) We started on Arlington Street and walked towards you dad's friend's house, Tina and met her and her daughter who is 9. She loves you both and held Noah's hand quite a ways...at one point, Noah, you called my attention to show me you were holding hands! So cute! The whole neighborhood was done up quite impressively for Halloween...fog machines, life size monsters, mummies, you name it, motion-activated zombies coming out of coffins, murder scenes in windows, it was great! Uncle Don and Auntie Kim went with us. Cuddles too...since I had a costume for her. She wagged her tail the whole time and was quite the hit with some babies. You were both exhausted and came home to our house and stayed up until 9:00! Your dad finally put you to bed downstairs. We never even looked at your candy! Today your dad is bringing you both here after school so you can sort it, classify it, count it, etc. I'm watching you both tomorrow and thinking we might go for a ride out to P.I refuge and walk the boardwalks there! Cool! It's a nice, sunny week in the 50's.
Leading up to Halloween was a bit disastrous this year. We had a major snowstorm over the weekend! Not so much snow here but wet and heavy enough to bring down limbs and power lines. We lost power at our house form Saturday 8pm to Monday 11am. Some people in Western mass still w/o power and may be until end of week. Craziness! Your neighborhood in Haverhill at Daddy's house looked like a war zone with so many branches down, hug lies. Your dad called in a panic Saturday night telling me how he could hear all these limbs (trees as he exaggerated it) crashing down outside the window. You guys were with your mom and she lost power, too.
So my house got so cold Monday, Halloween, when you were supposed to be here, that I decided to drive to your house. I brought my cake mix and pan to make our fish cake together. We had a blast! We also took a walk to the junk store near the train tracks an at they had mummies and things inside and tables decorated with jack o'lanterns on their porch. I saw a couch I wanted to buy! It would have been perfect for my living room since I don't like the leather loveseat. No firm enough for my back. Only $50! Cool colors, too. I resisted!
While I was making you guys lunch, I called the house and the answering machine picked up so I knew power was back on. We packed up the car, Halloween orange donut spice pumpkin cake with sprinkles and all and went back to Newburyport. Noah slept in the car and Dylan took a nap at the house while Noah continued sleeping in car at a 90 degree angle, hopefully not resulting in permanent neck damage. After Noah's nap, he had a little accident. Didn't make it to the toilet in time to pee but he wasn't going to tell me. He asked for his backpack. I could see his pants were wet so I helped him change his clothes and soap down a bit so the pee wouldn't burn. He was very upset but I explained that this always happens when kids are very small and it is OK! It broke my heart to see him so sad, but as soon as I sprinkled some flowery powder on him, he was good as new and happy again! Noah is still having problems peeing the bed a night and has to wear pull-ups for that. But both of you are peeing in the toilet, and pooping! It's great! Dylan did the largest turd I've ever seen the other day. It was truly amazing. It would have been large for an adult.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
August 28, 2011 Birthday #4 and Hurricane Irene
12:30pm
Dear Noah and Dylan,
Yesterday, we celebrated your fourth birthday! It was a gala affair at 40 Leonard Street, Bradford. Your mom and Daddy combine efforts to put it together and invited both sides of the family. Uncle Joe took about 300 pictures of you all together with your little friends having cake around a kiddie table, playing in the bouncy house, holding the toads and reptiles from the petting zoo and snakes! They had a 16' Burmese Python, a baby alligator, some bearded dragons, lizards from Australia, giant today from South America, three different colored corn snakes. One snake wrapped itself around Granpy K's nose! It was very humid with Hurricane Irene on its way up the coast. Today we are hunkered down at 44 Hale St with no power since 11:15AM. Uncle Joe and your daddy are having lunch with you and then it will be nap time. I might be taking a nap, too! Earlier we watched some classic music videos on Youtube Like Michael Jackson's Thriller, Rick James and James Brown, "I Feel Good." I got you both hooked on Christopher Walkens.
Anyway, you had lots of people at your party and got lots of presents. Uncle Joe and I got you money for your college fund, nature classes at the Audubon Society (Joppa Flats) and a couple of little things. A volkswagon with planets on it and crazy glasses for Dylan, a school bus and a little mouse for Noah. You got umbrellas from Grandma and Granpy K, lots of matchbox cars, a big fuel truck and cement truck, a tambourine,and chopsticks from Auntie Susan, Star Wars helmets from your other Auntie Kim, and I don't know what else since you opened up your presents after everyone left. Those are just the ones you packed up to come over here for the storm.
I met your mom's new boyfriend, Adam who is very nice. He's very young though, 23 so a few people cracking jokes about that (including me, of course.)Your other Auntie Kim is not happy about it at all and would not even talk to him. Your mom didn't appreciate that since she didn't try to talk to your mom either. Theres' always tension between members of the family, especially that side! Kyle and John didn't come because they didn't have a ride and your grandmother wouldn't bring them. Your mom did not invite your grandmother since she has not made any effort to see you kids since you were born. I'll never forget that crazy day I was with you guys at Friendly and she was a nth next table! She would not even look at us but your Grandfather talked to us quite a bit. And she was mad at hi afterwards! She is crazy.
Dear Noah and Dylan,
Yesterday, we celebrated your fourth birthday! It was a gala affair at 40 Leonard Street, Bradford. Your mom and Daddy combine efforts to put it together and invited both sides of the family. Uncle Joe took about 300 pictures of you all together with your little friends having cake around a kiddie table, playing in the bouncy house, holding the toads and reptiles from the petting zoo and snakes! They had a 16' Burmese Python, a baby alligator, some bearded dragons, lizards from Australia, giant today from South America, three different colored corn snakes. One snake wrapped itself around Granpy K's nose! It was very humid with Hurricane Irene on its way up the coast. Today we are hunkered down at 44 Hale St with no power since 11:15AM. Uncle Joe and your daddy are having lunch with you and then it will be nap time. I might be taking a nap, too! Earlier we watched some classic music videos on Youtube Like Michael Jackson's Thriller, Rick James and James Brown, "I Feel Good." I got you both hooked on Christopher Walkens.
Anyway, you had lots of people at your party and got lots of presents. Uncle Joe and I got you money for your college fund, nature classes at the Audubon Society (Joppa Flats) and a couple of little things. A volkswagon with planets on it and crazy glasses for Dylan, a school bus and a little mouse for Noah. You got umbrellas from Grandma and Granpy K, lots of matchbox cars, a big fuel truck and cement truck, a tambourine,and chopsticks from Auntie Susan, Star Wars helmets from your other Auntie Kim, and I don't know what else since you opened up your presents after everyone left. Those are just the ones you packed up to come over here for the storm.
I met your mom's new boyfriend, Adam who is very nice. He's very young though, 23 so a few people cracking jokes about that (including me, of course.)Your other Auntie Kim is not happy about it at all and would not even talk to him. Your mom didn't appreciate that since she didn't try to talk to your mom either. Theres' always tension between members of the family, especially that side! Kyle and John didn't come because they didn't have a ride and your grandmother wouldn't bring them. Your mom did not invite your grandmother since she has not made any effort to see you kids since you were born. I'll never forget that crazy day I was with you guys at Friendly and she was a nth next table! She would not even look at us but your Grandfather talked to us quite a bit. And she was mad at hi afterwards! She is crazy.
June 19, 2011 I Got Poop, Strawberry Shortcake Festival and Summer Report Cards!
Dear Noah and Dylan,
We've had quit a weekend so far! And today we are celebrating Fathers' Day down at Charlton Lake with Pam, Rob and the kids plus Grandpa K and Grandma!
In summary, you both delivered cake and juice to my students on Friday afternoon as a surprise retirement party, you got new toys Auntie Kim bought at a yard sale, you had hotdogs at the Methodist Church in Salisbury Square and listened to Gospel music, you took a tubby at Auntie Kim's (and the water was warm, not cold.) You threw rocks in the Merrimack River at Moseley woods and Uncle Joe read you "But O Elephants!" before you went to sleep despite Dylan's demands for "Go, Dog, Go!"
It's been a pleasure having you here this weekend because you've both been very happy and well-behaved. Only a couple whiney times when Noah got up from his nap on Friday and was clinging and crying to Daddy. I made him go downstairs and cry which we all ignored while we ate our supper. Then Noah escalated to "I got poop!" We ignored that too, until finally I decided to check dn there he was butt naked next to the toilet with a small turd in his underwear on the floor. I helped make sure his butt was clean and gave nudey boy a big hug who returned the hug with a huge kiss! Daddy went out to the van for clean clothes and I rinsed the poopy clothes in the sink. Noah was also sick (again) with a cough so that didn't help his mood. But after the, he was in great spirits and we had fun playing with the new mesh ball toss game, the Lincoln logs, the alphabet t puzzle train and the cowboys and Indians! After lunch, both of you tok a delightful nap with me and we agreed we'd have our ice cream sandwiches after our nap. I read a couple of the French storybooks (translating to English of course) and we were all out for two hours! After that, we went to Moseley with Ruby jut for a little while. Dylan was SO excited to see many boats going up and down the river. You both waded into the water up to your knees with your sandals on. Ruby ran around looking for squirrels and chipmunks . then we picked up Uncle Joe, dropped off Ruby and went to the lobster/strawberry shortcake festival at the Methodist church. You were both very good there. They had a tennis ball toss game set up and Noah played with another boy who was quite impressed with his pitching arm, while Dylan preferred to eat a bag of potato chips and listen to the Moore Family Gospel Singers. Uncle Joe said, "I owe him." Now, the whole weekend, mind you, your daddy has been texting back and forth to a new potential girlfriend he'll be meeting this week named Carly. He complains about your mother being addicted to her Blackberry, yet he seems to be engaged to his cell phone suddenly! Let's hope Carly is as interesting in person as she is in text!
On the way back from the Strawberry Shortcake Festival, Noah ate the last piece of gum and Dylan started crying, ignoring Dad's requests to stop. I told him that if he stopped crying he would get a popsicle at the house. That worked! Also told him I'd buy him gum for his birthday!
We've had quit a weekend so far! And today we are celebrating Fathers' Day down at Charlton Lake with Pam, Rob and the kids plus Grandpa K and Grandma!
In summary, you both delivered cake and juice to my students on Friday afternoon as a surprise retirement party, you got new toys Auntie Kim bought at a yard sale, you had hotdogs at the Methodist Church in Salisbury Square and listened to Gospel music, you took a tubby at Auntie Kim's (and the water was warm, not cold.) You threw rocks in the Merrimack River at Moseley woods and Uncle Joe read you "But O Elephants!" before you went to sleep despite Dylan's demands for "Go, Dog, Go!"
It's been a pleasure having you here this weekend because you've both been very happy and well-behaved. Only a couple whiney times when Noah got up from his nap on Friday and was clinging and crying to Daddy. I made him go downstairs and cry which we all ignored while we ate our supper. Then Noah escalated to "I got poop!" We ignored that too, until finally I decided to check dn there he was butt naked next to the toilet with a small turd in his underwear on the floor. I helped make sure his butt was clean and gave nudey boy a big hug who returned the hug with a huge kiss! Daddy went out to the van for clean clothes and I rinsed the poopy clothes in the sink. Noah was also sick (again) with a cough so that didn't help his mood. But after the, he was in great spirits and we had fun playing with the new mesh ball toss game, the Lincoln logs, the alphabet t puzzle train and the cowboys and Indians! After lunch, both of you tok a delightful nap with me and we agreed we'd have our ice cream sandwiches after our nap. I read a couple of the French storybooks (translating to English of course) and we were all out for two hours! After that, we went to Moseley with Ruby jut for a little while. Dylan was SO excited to see many boats going up and down the river. You both waded into the water up to your knees with your sandals on. Ruby ran around looking for squirrels and chipmunks . then we picked up Uncle Joe, dropped off Ruby and went to the lobster/strawberry shortcake festival at the Methodist church. You were both very good there. They had a tennis ball toss game set up and Noah played with another boy who was quite impressed with his pitching arm, while Dylan preferred to eat a bag of potato chips and listen to the Moore Family Gospel Singers. Uncle Joe said, "I owe him." Now, the whole weekend, mind you, your daddy has been texting back and forth to a new potential girlfriend he'll be meeting this week named Carly. He complains about your mother being addicted to her Blackberry, yet he seems to be engaged to his cell phone suddenly! Let's hope Carly is as interesting in person as she is in text!
On the way back from the Strawberry Shortcake Festival, Noah ate the last piece of gum and Dylan started crying, ignoring Dad's requests to stop. I told him that if he stopped crying he would get a popsicle at the house. That worked! Also told him I'd buy him gum for his birthday!
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