Peepah Comes To Visit!

Ah, but which one you ask? Well, if we ask Loch, it is "Peepah with the lost tooth" and not "Peepah with the sharp hair". Peepah Meagher flew in Thursday night to enjoy a simple dinner with us and see the boys off to bed. He did manage to get talked into reading Lochlain a last minute bedtime story - a book about Batman!

Lochlain likes to participate in the reading of this book, rattling off the names of the bat-vehicles and the villains. He also likes to demonstrate young Bruce Wayne's training regimen, especially...

...the meditation!!!

Still, it is one of Lochlain's favorite books to read even though it can sometimes turn into a scene from the 60's TV show:

Friday saw Bean off to work and the boys off to daycare. Dad and I stayed at home to run errands, hang out, and get ready for my 2nd Birthday.

FUNNY IF YOU'RE A MEAGHER DEPARTMENT:



So, yeah - Dad helped bake my birthday cake! Look - he even used the mixer:

Later, he provided technical assistance with my broken power supply (which arrived today and is working perfectly - good work, Dad!):

"Now, John Joseph - don't forget a second SATA power connector!"

Then Dad kept the boys busy as I made dinner - he was especially helpful keeping Seaniebear out from underfoot:

Milky Milkerton sez: "Don't crush my bad arm, Peepah!"


The Angry Cuddles

Before I knew it, it was time for my second birthday celebration - with a cake Peepah made pretty much all by himself (bet he never did that for Feather!)

A great 2nd birthday party - all Meagher birthdays last a long time!

The boys received presents from Aunt Feather - she made them superhero t-shirts! Lochlain had received two Green Lantern shirts from Feath that he loves and wears a lot (well, one of them - the black shirt's GL icon started to come off) at Christmas. Seaniebear got a tshirt that said "Please Don't Feed the Seaniebear" but with the "Don't" crossed out and "Juice and Pancakes" pencilled in at the end - he loves to "read" it to you when he is wearing it. Well, when they got their new shirts - they loved them and had to wear them right away!

The Brave & The Bold

Bean ended up reading us all Spoon, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Peepah was amused by Seanie leaping off the bed every time the page was turned to point out one thing or another. NOTE: Please notice that Milky Milkerton is not wearing his sling at this point. Though he would go on to complain about his arm once or twice between this time and game time (9:00 AM) the next day, he is completely recovered.

Another fascinating read.

We did a lot of other things with Peepah that weekend - including going out to dinner sans kids, going to the movies, going to (of all places) Peepah's favorite supermarket and doing this puzzle:

But what was really great was having Peepah attend Sean and Lochlain's games on Saturday. He got to see Seanie attend his team picture AND play his game (which got a little rough for a bunch of 3 year olds) - though Seanie at one point did assist the other team in scoring a goal on his own net:

This is not a picture of Sean's "assist" - I was too busy yelling at Sean
to turn the ball around and go the other way at that time to take pictures


Loch fields this ball cleanly - a good stop. And then keeps it. Sigh.


"So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
But summer has been ended, now starts the season fall;
there is some joy in Greensboro - mighty Lochlain hit the ball.
(with apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer)