Miss Jenny Day

Dalton's AussieROO teacher and the librarian at Circle Time are both called Miss Jenny. Funny.

First, we must go back to yesterday. Easton was good and then bad and then great. As we were out running errands we had to go to Chipotle for some pico de gallo I needed for dinner. Holding Dalton on my hip and Easton's hand I let go of E's hand when we got on the sidewalk so that I could open the door to the restaurant. I turned around to watch him walk in. Only E wasn't there! Seriously he disappeared as quickly as David Copperfield. I thought maybe he was behind a large post hiding. I went around it. Nope. Where the frick was he? After about 20 seconds of heart-pounding searching I saw that he'd gone onto the patio and went into a side door. I walked over him and tried to give him a very stern talking to about how wrong that was. He wasn't listening. He was looking away and whining. So he got hauled into his carseat for a time out while Dalton and I stood behind the car and waited. Then we had the talking to I tried to give him earlier. I was sooooo not happy. In the restaurant (finally) he knew he was in hot water and stuck right by me as expected. Stinker.

But at home I was going to fix dinner and turned on a TV show for the boys to watch while I cooked but E asked, "Can you snuggle me?" so I jumped at the chance to reconnect with both my boys. Dinner could wait. And it did. Easton was very well behaved the rest of the night.

And when J got home I was able to brag on all my savings: I'd bought the boys' Halloween costumes, right?...well the next day (yesterday) coupons for that store arrived in my mailbox and they would've saved us $15!!! So I marched back into the store to return the costumes and buy them again with the coupons. And lots of you are asking what the boys are going to be...do you not know me at all? ;) Of course I'll be waiting for a later date to do a "big reveal"...with pictures. I won't make you wait all the way till Halloween...and it'll probably be easy to figure out their outfits as we let the boys pic their own (Diddles too).

We also went to Target where I did some fabulous couponing...I "stacked" a Target coupon with a manufacturer coupon to save $2.50 on a $2.79 bag of chocolate chips (insane, right?) and Cheerios are on sale at Targs, plus I had mega-coupons so we got boxes of Cheerios for $1.75 each...they're normally nearly $4 a box! I was so proud of myself. What am I gonna do with all that cereal? Well, the Cheerios website has lots of cute snack ideas and even muffins to make. I'll be sure to share recipes if we taste any winners.

Today Easton has been perfect so far. I had to wake both boys up this morning but we got Easton ready for school. Today was picture day so he's looking super slick. I had him practice his smile for me:


Wearing a new pair of shoes:


We dropped him off at school. Another boy was in there simply wailing away. :( Sounded much like Easton a few weeks ago. It made Easton a little tentative and I saw him start walking a little slower and he asked Mrs. M about it. She said, "Yeah...he's having a hard time today. You remember when you were having a hard time?" But he went off to play with Isaac and was fine.

Dalton and I chatted with Kylie and Caleb and then we went to the bakery for a bite to eat. My Diddlebug is so cute and loves to carry his little cooler with his sippy cup in it:


We sat and ate...the highchair I'd picked up was filthy so I just had D sit next to me on the bench seat. He noticed my camera in my purse and insisted on a, "Cheese!"


Actually we had the whole bench to ourselves so D spread out a few tables down from me:


Then we were off to AussieROO and the young Miss Jenny. Class was great. Dalton did well. He got monkey stamps on his hands. He's really starting to learn the routine. Even getting out of the car there he shouted, "Yay!" and clapped. Then he knew we had to take off our shoes and where we put them. Then he pointed at the door to the room and said, "Roo! Roo!" What fun. I love having a little class to focus just on him for awhile. It's one reason I was so looking forward to preschool for E: D time.

After AussieROO we headed to Circle Time at the 'brary with the old(er) Miss Jenny. There was 50 kids there today!!! I'm not sure we'll go back. It's insane. Soooo many kids, so many moms chatting with one another during the stories so that no one can hear anything. Dalton likes it but really only to people watch. So we'll see. I think it's way too full. It's not like it used to be when I'd take Easton.

Today's theme was potatoes and he got a snack of fake french fries (veggie stick thingies) and then we headed to school for Bubbs. As we were driving Easton said, "Hey Mom...you wanna go somewhere to play?" so I was like, "Sure we can" and we went to a new park we'd never been to and played for a bit.

Then we came home for lunch and quiet time which brings us up to date.

Tonight is the season premiere of 3 of our shows (we only watch 4 this fall!) and that means 5 hours of TV just tonight! Ack! Actually, Jason doesn't even watch Grey's Anatomy so we'll watch the two hour Survivor premiere followed by the 1 hour premiere of The Office and then I'll watch Grey's tomorrow. (SVU is our other show). If Bachelor, Scrubs, or LOST was on this fall they'd be on our list too but they're not coming till after the new year, and actually no clue on Scrubs.

So that's that. Till next time...