Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2009-08-28

2009-08-28 23:45 (John) We made it through the first day without Kristen without unexpected glitches. Liam fell off the sofa while watching me play Mercury Meltdown Revolution, hitting his head on the padded arm of the sofa. He does this practically every day, and always insists on personal attention from Kristen (Mah-Yee). This time, I reminded him that Mom was away on a plane, and he grumbled but calmed down. Then at bedtime, Liam got as far as insisting that he was going to go to the airport and find a plane to chase Mommy down, but I managed to pull him back at the bedroom door. Liam passed out at 10:25, almost an hour after lights out, and about five minutes into a story. Jamie succumbed about ten minutes later, letting me join the rest of the gang (Tom, Jeff, Bruce, Andy and Reid) downstairs playing Battestar Galactica.

The rest of the day was uneventful. We got to Hakobune only five minutes late. The boys insisted that I staywith them until clean-up time, which was fine with me. At pickup, we said goodbye to Yutaka, which turned into my letting each child in the room climb up my chest and back flip back to the floor, three times. At home, we played video games, finished lunch, did homework (Liam worked on a Kumon book introducing him to hiragana, and is trying to learn the difference between a shi and a ku). Tom made us ribs at Browning. As I predicted, Liam dug right in with glee and Jamie initially refused but was willing to eat them if I deboned them and told him they tasted just like sausage. Of course, by that time Tom had made hamburgers, so the boys split one of those. We were a little late getting home after a long and goofy Skype session with Mom, went straight to the bath, brushed teeth, watched Anpanman and got to work getting to sleep.