Dinner Craziness

And this was before the blue frosted cupcake...

Horton Hears a Who and a drunk girl too

Yesterday we went with our friends Kelli and Joe to see Horton Hears a Who. It was a really cute movie and I think everyone enjoyed it, minus the weird Japanese animation scene. Afterwards we went to one of our favorite Mexican joints, Berry Hill, for dinner. The table we ended up sitting at was on the path to the restroom. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal. But, tonight we obviously chose the wrong one.

As most of you know, Cavett is a wiggle worm when it comes to sitting in a chair. He takes a long time to eat, but at least he can hover around his chair for an extended period of time without too much of a struggle. As he was half on/half off of his chair, a lady was on her way to the restroom and stopped to "talk" to him. She said that she was a pediatric nurse and that he needed to sit in his chair. She didn't want him to fall. Stephen said "Thank you" several times and eventually she made her way to the bathroom. On the way back, she made a few more comments about not wanting him to be in danger before going back to her table. Mind you, he had one foot on the ground and this wasn't a tall chair.

Not 15 minutes later and a few more drinks, she headed to the bathroom again. Once again, she stopped to tell us what we were doing wrong as parents. After shooing her away again, Stephen had a discussion with the manager. He mentioned that he had several complaints from a few other parents and said he would cut her off.

This time she was in the bathroom for quite some time--maybe 15 minutes. When she came out, her fly was down and she had more to say trying to get Cavett to sit down in his chair. When she put her hands on Cavett, I had enough. Stephen stood up and forcefully told her to leave. She proceeded to tell us that she should call CPS for such bad parenting. Stephen said that after she finished the 12th step, then she could tell us how to parent. We had a good laugh as our child-less friends watched us with this ordeal.

Funny thing was, a couple of minutes later, Cavett did fall down. He was just fine and brushed it off. Then we even let him stand up in his chair and do a little dance. I guess we are bad parents.....

We have the joy

Below are 2 videos we recorded yesterday after church. The first one is Cavett singing one of his favorite church songs. Usually the "where" is really prolonged in a very high pitched voice. The second was during lunch. How fun it is to see the two boys making each other laugh. Cavett says he was "scaring" Kendrick by saying "Radadoo" in a "scary" voice. Hopefully, meals will continue in this happy way for many more years to come.

PB & J

You probably have thought that we have dropped off the face of the earth since I haven't been writing, but the truth is, 1-I have been lacking creative juices lately. I haven't even had any exciting ideas about the baby quilt for Walker Russell Alexander. 2-There hasn't really been anything to write about. We are just going about the daily grind, trying to get it all done. 3- I started teaching again. Not only am I teaching 2 SongPlay classes, but I am taking Kendrick to one while Cavett is at school and then also conducting warm-ups for the Chancel Choir at church every Wednesday night. (If you check out that last link, you will see a pic of Stephen in the top left hand corner). Whew!

On top of that our weekend was full of college friends (Sha-Nay-Nay and Chuck) staying at our house Friday night and then planning our camping and Grand Saline trip for next weekend.

So, a little happy today.....Cavett had Nutter Butters for snack today at school. I asked him what he thought about them and he said he liked them. So, I convinced him to have a quarter of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch. For those of you not up on the Cavett dinner dilema, he is not necessarily picky as he will eat veggies and fruit, but it's usually a rotation of chicken nuggets, fish sticks, hot dog and raviloli for the main entree. To add something like this that will work for lunch at school is HUGE!!!!! Now, he wasn't really asking for more, but at least he ate it.