Evan's first movie

For Father's Day, I took the kids out of the house for a few hours and met my friend and her daughter for a movie. We saw Inside Out at a new theater that has reclining loveseats instead of chairs. 

Of course, with every GD Disney movie there are 20 minutes of previews and then a "short film" before the actual film starts. Which sucks if you have little kids whose max is about an hour and change for staying in their seats for a movie. 

So 15 minutes into the actual movie, lunch and lunch eaten, Evan declares (loudly) "I get up now. Bye bye Mommy."

Uh, no little boy, you don't get up now. 

I enticed him to stay in his seat by offering a boob. This is why I don't push weaning...I lose my ace in the hole. So he accepted the offer of the boob and then fell asleep. He slept for about an hour. 

15 minutes prior to the end of the movie, about the time Evan woke up, Corinne decided she had enough and wanted to go home. So I pulled out my final ace in the hole: candy. They happily ate their ziplock snack bag of candy until the credits rolled. 

So all in all, a fairly peaceful movie going experience, but Evan isn't ready for another movie anytime soon. 

The movie was really cute, funny, and well done. I recommend it to children 6+ and adults, alike.

After the movie, we went home where Corinne fell asleep and Evan joined his daddy in the basement to play a little guitar hero.

First curse word

The day has finally arrived. I'm rather proud that it took four whole years instead of, like, the two years it probably should have taken. 

Here's the conversation that M and I had:

M: so I had a father of the year moment yesterday.

Me: oh?

M: corinne dropped something on the floor and said "damn it!" With the correct inflection and tone. I'm guessing she got it from me. 

Me: ummmm I wouldn't be too sure she got it from you. How about we split the parent of the year award, 50/50?

M: Deal. 

Gymnastics Camp

I enrolled Corinne for a 4 day long (2 hours/day) Olympic Gymnastics Camp this summer. They did gymnastics, ate a snack, played with water toys outside and did some type of craft each day. Then, on Thursday, the last day, the parents were invited during the last half hour of class to watch them "perform".

Problem was, Corinne was more interested in waving "hi" to Evan and me and showing us her artwork that she wasn't really focused on the activities themselves. Oh well, it was still cute to watch and she had fun this week.

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Preemie get together

This year's reunion was the smallest so far in terms of attendance, but it meant everyone got their own room and Evan didn't have to sleep with us. Because 4 in the bed is no fun for the adults. But, only having 7 kids mean that we could hire two teenagers for a few hours and have a mom's happy hour out! The house actually was in decent shape when everyone left. 7 kids is totally manageable!

Times when I'm blown away by the kids

Corinne: we had a play date with her preemie friends while M and Evan went to a birthday party. After our preemie friend event, I took her to the Great AmericanCookie place to get a cookie. She selected a chocolate chip one. 

She then broke it in half and said she wanted to give one half to Evan when we went home. We put half the cookie back in the bag for Evan. Then she looked at the remaining half of the cookie in her hand and decided Daddy needed some cookie too. So she broke her half a cookie in half and put the quarter of the cookie back in the bag for Daddy while eating her remaining quarter of a cookie. 

Evan: he was naked one day and peeing on the potty occasionally for chocolate chips. He brings out the little plastic potty with a normal Evan-sized pee in. It. I clean out the potty and give him a chocolate chip. He then takes the potty back in the bathroom and emerges no less than five minutes later with a very healthy amount of pee announcing that he's peed in the potty yet again. Okayyyy. I repeat the clean up/chocolate chip routine. He takes the potty back in the bathroom and emerges a couple minutes later with an even healthier sized amount of pee. How does one little boy pee that much? I start to get skeptical but follow through with the chocolate chip routine 

I sneakily follow him back into the bathroom and watch him as he sits on the potty, grabs the eye solution bottle on the counter and proceeds to dump the contents into the potty. Little smart bastard.