Happy Mother's Day to me

It's the end of my Mother's Day, and the day went ok. The boys and I started our morning with brunch at the O'Club. Aidan was running around with some of the other kids, and hit a few and pushed a few, and got one of the mothers mad at me, and then an old man complained about how loud they were, so they had to stop playing. WHY would that old man take his wife to the O'Club for Mother's Day Brunch??? Anyway...

Right as we were leaving, Aidan slammed the tip of his finger in the door to the women's restroom (he really is trying to be too much like me - first the tooth thing and now the finger in the door!); he was chasing after his friend, and the door slammed on his finger. I had that terrified feeling because I could hear him screaming, but I couldn't figure out which door he was behind. His fingernail was pretty purple, and he screamed for quite a while, but that was nothing compared to how much he screamed when we went outside to leave. He was not ready to leave! He screamed for the first fifteen minutes of the car trip too. Austin joined in for the last ten minutes of it, and then Aidan fell asleep. Austin continued solo for about fifteen more, and then fell asleep in the last five minutes of the drive. THANK GOODNESS he went back to sleep when we got home. Aidan, however, did not, so I ordered Happy Feet on Pay Pay View, and made Aidan some popcorn and took a much needed break for myself.

I got a very pleasant surprise today (my only one, but that's another story) when I got a fruit assortment bouquet delivered. My Secret Sister sent it to me, and it is so cute. Aidan loved the "popsicle" with grapes on them. He did a good job eating them until he poked Austin in the eye with the skewer. Thank goodness I thought ahead and snipped the pointed end off. I caught him right as we was doing it, so he didn't actually do much harm (Austin didn't even cry). I fear that Austin is going to be doing a lot of payback when he gets a little older.

On the way to the brunch today, Aidan started talking about Jared in a sad way for the first time since the deployment began. He said, "I want my Daddy. I want my Daddy to kiss me." It was pretty sad, but I blew him kisses for him to catch, so he had fun with that game. Later in the night again he said he was ready for Daddy to come home from Japan. I guess he's starting to wise up to this situation a bit.

Austin absolutely loves the bathtub. He was trying to jump out of my arms tonight to get in to the tub. The routine of washing Austin first, and then letting Aidan get in the tub is working out pretty well. They actually play pretty well together in the bathtub. It's funny to watch Austin start sticking up for himself a bit. Aidan took a toy from him in the tub tonight, and Austin actually took it back. I was shocked! Aidan wised up though because the next toy he took, he chucked over the side of the tub. :-)

Well, I'll go enjoy my few hours of peaceful bliss. Happy Mother's Day to me. :-)