Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2009-11-19

2009-11-19 22:28 (Kristen) My alarm was set at the right time, but my morning routine fell apart quicker than I would have liked. We did manage to catch John on Skype this morning aorund 8, when he was about to go to bed in Japan. It made the kids happy, but I fell behind in my appointed tasks and got Jamie to school just as the second bell sounded. Gleep. Liam and I, after what was a stressful departure from the house in pouring rain, wandered over to McDonalds for an apple juice and a sausage McMuffin. Liam was cute and remarkably quiet as he wolfed the whole thing and ate some of my hash browns besides. He never eats the hash browns. Sigh. It's not like I needed the calories anyway... I dropped him off at Hakobune, and note that it's the first time in ages that he didn't ask to play his DS on the subway, even though I'd put him into the stroller for ease of movement (for me). He, in fact, didn't remember it until we were on the subway on the way home. In the meantime, Mrs. Sasaki told me that Liam has joined in the Christmas pageant rehearsals (last year he completely refused) and has been dancing and singing. He's been dancing around the house lately, with lots and lots of spins, and he does like singing. Cool! We went to Book City because he asked to, after a few errands, but he wasn't interested in the books by the time we got there. We had a bathroom break, picked up some groceries at the Big Carrot, and went to get Jamie. Jamie came out into the rain wearing his sneakers and no coat, so we went inside for another Liam bathroom break and to dress Jamie properly. Jamie is excited because his class is going to have a baby from Roots of Empathy visiting (Wyatt) next week. I reminded him that Liam had been a Roots of Empathy baby, and Jamie asked why he wasn't one too. This required explanation that babies in the program have to be a certain age by November, and Jamie hadn't been born until November. OK, he'd concede that one. We went home, vegged, ate dinner, and then did homework and wrote out thank you cards for birthday presents. We had a long Skype session with John (almost like being there but you don't have to wipe bottoms), and then I put the boys into the bath early. Liam by this point was crazy tired, and had his impulse control on Off. It was just better that way, and he fell asleep pretty quickly. Jamie took longer, but it still wasn't all that long.

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