Wednesday, March 17, 2004
WHEW!! Mother in Law is gone, Aidan's birthday is over and I can take a break until the next thing comes along. LOLOL
It was good having Gramma here, actually. I enjoyed having someone to help keep an eye on the kids and kind of give me a break.
Let's see... I am waiting for a check from Rich so I can move his website to his new server, I have to work on the church newsletter, hide a leprechaun on our site, work on the support spreadsheet, get Roxane the info to start a support page...and that's just tonight. I really need to win the Powerball so I can quit my job. It gets in the way of the important stuff. We bought a ticket in New Hampshire on Sunday and they draw today so keep a good thought. LOLOL
John has a few interviews lined up. He is supposed to call back today for a screening for Time Warner Cable!!! YIPEEE!!!!! FREE CABLE AND INTERNET!!!!!!! That would so rock. With my luck it won't pay enough. :o(
While Gramma was here we went down to Boston for the weekend. All of us. We spent the money that we had saved out for "Getting Away" money. So no nice sleeping in with no one climbing on me at 6:00 am. :o( It was ok. We stayed at a Comfort Inn & got 2 rooms. John and I went to Top of the Hub for dinner on Saturday night. I wasn't terribly impressed. It was a lounge. With a lounge menu. Old dudes playing stale jazz in the corner. There was a young couple who got up and did some great swing dancing and that was pretty cool. I had 2 watered down daqueries. If I don't even feel it after having not drunk any alcohol in 3 years, they are without a doubt watered down. The food was alright, pretty much upscale lounge fare. I don't want to hurt John's feelings but I would have 100xs preferred to just sleep for two days. :oD I don't think he gets it.
Aidan is now 3 years old. My lord, where does the time go? She certainly lives up to her name. "Little Fire". She has attitude to spare. :oD She had lots of fund while Gramma was here but I think the trip away may have been a bit too much for her. We went to Chuckie Cheese for her party on Saturday and she seemed to have fun. Gramma came and Auntie and Philip brought Hannah. We had pizza for lunch and a Blues Clues cake. Aidan picked it out herself. I asked her if she wanted Dora or Blue and she picked Blue. And she said she wanted a toy cow as a present so Auntie and Philip got her a Beanie Baby cow. She loved it. She carried it all over Chuckie Cheese and sat it next to her on all the rides. LOLOL It's name is now Moo Moo and she is a girl cow. Right after that we left to drive down to Boston. I had hoped they would sleep on the way down but neither of them did. They spent the evening in Gramma's room and had room service for dinner. Surprisingly enough, they were quiet and in bed when we got back around 11 and Aidan was asleep. Ian started out in the other double bed but decided that he wanted to sleep with Aidan so he went over there. :oD
The problems started the next day when we went down for Complimentary Continental. Aidan had an absolute meltdown in the elevator. She wanted out and she wanted out now and she let us all know at the top of her lungs. That was new. She rode up on it fine the night before. She has been in elevators before with no problem. The only thing I can think of is that there was a buzzer that went off at each floor and that may have freaked her out.
But she was fine at breakfast and when she was done eating she went to play with the other kids who were running around in the open area. She "adopted" the little 1 year old who was wandering around. She called him "her baby". Ian tried to get into the play with the other older kids but they wouldn't include him. I think they were cousins or something. But it is so cool that he tried! And he really was pretty appropriate about it. I was proud of him. :oD
However, on the trip back up, she freaked at the elevator again. John walked her up the stairs because, being a guy, he just wanted her to be quiet. I told him that walking her up the stairs was just going to reinforce the fear of the elevator and give her an out to not go in it. And sure enough, when we were ready to go down she just kept saying she wanted to walk down the stairs. Needless to say we did NOT go to the Hancock Tower that day. 79 floors up in an elevator with 10 people you never met and a screaming toddler would not make for an enjoyable experience. So we went to the Commons and Public Garden. Much better. The kids played for quite a while in the Tadpole Playground. It's great. It has a cushioned play surface that I have never seen before. Aidan climbed and slid and climbed and Ian ran around a lot. We stayed until it looked like Gramma was going to turn into a Gramma-cicle then moved on. Over in the Gardens we stopped to look at the gees and ducks. They were hanging out waiting for someone to put water back in the pond. LOL And being cityfied critters, they came right up to you. So Ian and Aidan were out walking in the middle of a big flock of them having a great old time. When it was time to move on Aidan had another meltdown and nothing any of us could do would stop it. So John carried her. It wasn't until we got to the Duckling statues that she finally calmed down. Then she and Ian went over and climbed on the statues for a while. I love the book "Make Way for Ducklings" :oD My Gramma used to read it to me when I was little. I hope the kids will have good feelings about it someday too. I read it to them when I can. Between dinosaurs and sharks and Clifford. LOLOL
I will say this here and now, Aidan does NOT need anymore baby dolls. She has just PLENTY now. She even has a doll that goes pee in her own potty chair. And another one that is kind of like a cyberpet. If you feed it or rock it or give it a paccie it gets happy and coos, giggles and sighs. If you disturb it, it CRIES.... I have to tell you, if I ever needed reinforcement that I don't want another baby, that crying was it. It went right to my cerebelum and felt like a white hot ice pick.
I was rocking the dang thing just to get it to stop. Geez There is an off switch, though, so when I'm not home, they can turn it on and it can cry to it's heart's content.
Besides the baby doll instability, I did have a panic attack when we were in Top of the Hub. I have no idea why. It started when we got into the Prudential Plaza and kept getting worse. I think it was just all too big. I haven't been to a big city in at least 2 years. I really like being out in the wide open country, without all the people and big buildings and noise. Ian seems to too. He was saying he likes being in Casco where there aren't so many people around.
I finally got a paper today about the Kindergarden screeing for Ian so we will be setting that up soon. I have been trying to get ahold of Janet the Services coordinator but can't seem to. I need to try again today. GAD
Work is nuts. We are transferring to the new database and it is a boatload of work for the support staff. And my supervisor is driving me nuts. She is telling me how to do work I have been doing for 2 years now when she doesn't even know the process or how it works and she is going to walk me through a process I just had training on on Thursday and was teaching someone else to do. I really hate that.
Well, that's enough babble for today.
Peace.
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