It's been awhile. I've been lazy. Well, that's not completely true - I just had other writing projects (the ditty) taking up my time. It's one week till Christmas and I still have not done my shopping for the kids. Boo. I'm having a hard time getting into the "spirit" of things. Plus, it is extremely hard to participate in any activities that require being in a public place with Kellen these days. The terrible twos are looming my friends and it is going to get UGLY. This past weekend Kellen was carried kicking and screaming and crying out of 3 different places. When the little man doesn't get what he wants he behaves very badly. He cried at Walmart b/c he couldn't have a ball. He refused to sit in his chair at Nanking, so we ordered water, had a sip, and then had to leave. We had to bribe him with lollipops so he would stay in the shopping cart at HEB. Not fun. Good thing you can only surrender a newborn baby because Brian keeps suggesting we drop him off at the nearest fire station.
We gave Stepping Stone notice that we will be removing Kellen from the daycare. Shocker. He went with Brian to meet his new teachers at the new school. It went as well as can be expected with K refusing to leave Brian's side no matter how much coaxing the teacher's tried. K is going to have a hard first day. Brian will be dropping him off, because I am almost certain I will not be able to leave him without crying my eyes out and making things worse (yes Markus, I do cry, though it is rare and usually limited to decisions that have to do with my dogs or my kid or any sappy movie). Moving on...
We attempted to see Santa at Lakeline Mall. As predicted, this was a bust. We went, we stood in line, we bribed Kellen with McDonald's french fries thinking that would distract him from the big man in red. Brian tried to put Kellen on Santa's lap - but Kellen's death grip on Brian's arm prevented that from happening. We tried to bribe him with some little toys which Kellen took and then ran off. Then we left. Maybe next year. At least he didn't embarrass himself by crying like the little boy in front of us did. The more I think about it, I'm pretty sure the little boy was just crying about the ridiculous sweater vest his mom made him wear and didn't want that to be memorialized in a picture frame somewhere. Once there's a picture - it happened - no denying it.
I realize that these blogs my appear to be all about the kid. This is because we have no life outside of the kid. Well, that's actually not true. Brian and I took off work the week of Thanksgiving. We sent Kellen to school every day so we could get some stuff done. We ordered landscaping rocks and landscaped the yard on Monday. We went to see the movie 2012 which was fun, on Tuesday. On Wednesday I think we just hung out at the house. On Thursday we hosted Thanksgiving which I deemed a huge success - many thanks to all those who participated. Friday thru Sunday was a blur. I don't remember what we did, where we went, who we were with, nothing. But I am sure it was fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants fun. On December 12th my parents watched Kellen overnight and Brian and I went to the Bella Christmas dinner at Cool River. We wined, we dined and were home by 10pm. We went to bed immediately and then got up BEFORE the crack of dawn on Sunday and went to S. Austin to feed the homeless. Then we hightailed it out of the breakfast to attend a church business meeting, then church, then out to my parent's house to get K-man. Fun, fun, and more fun. We are living the life people.
Well, that's about all I can think of as far as recent news. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season with your families and friends. Be safe mi amigos.
McCranski's Out.
