The Guests What Wouldn't Leave

Recently, cousins Beth, Helaina and baby James came to stay with us. And never left. They may even still be here right now. I wouldn't know - they were the most unobtrusive, under-the-radar, chillaxin' bunch of people who ever came to visit!! We had a great time hanging out with them - and 10-week-old James even fell asleep on ol' scary Mr. Beardyface (which, of course, would be yours truly). The boys loved having all of them here, and even roped Beth into doing their Wonder Pets Save The Rat Pack skit. Of course, come picture time - we got everyone together to take a group picture...which ended up with Loch insisting a)that everyone say "burger!" instead of "cheese!"; and b) that we make a video of them saying "burger!" after pictures were taken.

"Cheese!"


"Burger!"

I think my most favorite part of the visit was having people over who enjoy Lost as much as I do. Our viewing party was the only thing that was able to entice Helaina to stay up past 8 PM. Good times, good times.

Lost Viewing Party

Lochlain was screened for Pre-K last week. He went with a teacher to play "games" (aka grueling mental and physical challenges designed to weed out inferior beings) while we filled out even more paperwork (we had to fill out paperwork to get the paperwork we had to bring with us to screening session). 5 minutes later we were all reunited and on our way to lunch at McDonald's. It was quick, well organized, and apparently (as we found out later) - a complete waste of time. It turns out the county's official pre-K program is dedicated to children who are at lesser levels of ability and affluence. That's not to say we won't get in, but I'm willing to lay 10-to-1 odds we won't. Two of Loch's classmates teamed up to host a joint birthday party (which was a clever idea) at Bounce U - and Loch and Mommy had a great time (Seanie and Daddy stayed home and napped)!!

"In a bounce hut stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade.."


There is no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness.

Speaking of awesomeness, Seanie is really learning his letters - thanks to the LeapFrog Fridge Phonics Magnetic Letter Set. No, really. He helped Lochlain spell out "Batman" on the fridge this evening (with an upside down letter "V" subbed in for the first "A" when we had to move it into the second "A" position) - helping to locate both the "T" and the "M" when asked. And this past Sunday, Bean relayed to me the story of Seaniebear getting out the Vtech laptop and doing the letter game. As the laptop would ask him to type the letter, Seanie would say each time: "Hmmmm........I find it!" in his little Seanie voice - and then would proceed to tell Mommy whatever generic praise words came from the laptop - even though Mommy was sitting right across the table from him.

"Daaaaaaaa.....Bear!"