A Rainy Saturday

means its time to go to the library

 Proud owner of a new library card of his very own....

Well its official

Budget cuts means for May they are cutting out 6 days.  So for the majority of May Logan will only attend school on T/W/Th.  They say this is the "least disruptive" .  ERR no I don't think so.  I don't really understand why they didn't just chop the Fridays off for May and June 1.  There's the 6 days right there.

Still waiting on the transfer paperwork from Cambria.  Its really frustrating since we can't plan any summer activities without knowing if Ronan will be in kinderkamp or not.

ARGH.

Trike mania, spending money and a reward

So Friday was the annual St Judes Trike a Thon at the preschool.  Its quite hysterical having 30+ 5 and unders all trying to ride around in a circle.  They'd all slam on their brakes going down the down slope and get stuck on the up slope part.  Some did not get the whole concept of staying inside the lines and others just though the point was to go as fast as possible.  Lots of crashes, near misses and general mayhem.

Ronan's ready to ride

Cheesing it up with his bestest buddy Parker

And their off

Whoa, corner

Whew, hard work means I need a snack

and maybe some juice

Riding is fun.

While we were home with Logan when he had his tooth pulled we rolled up all the money in the boys piggy banks .  I said they could have half of the money to spend on anything they wanted and the other half had to go into their savings account.  Ronan ended up with $40 to spend and Logan $45 so we headed to Target and Ronan bought Cole's car.

Logan went for two Star Wars sets

Logan has been stepping up at school and trying really hard to not be a distraction to everyone in class.  His teacher said he was a complete turnaround from where he was so as a reward I told him he could bring a friend to the Childrens Museum.  Ronan came too of course, we had free passes left over from a party.

Future fireman?

Peek a boo

I see you

Logan choice of friend to bring, Caedmon.  They look strangely alike in this photo.

Cute lil fireman

I think it was a success as we had not even made it halfway home when they zonked

Still waiting on news of our transfer status.  Its holding up all the plans for summer.  I can't make any vacation plans til I know if Ronan will go to kinderkamp as it starts at the end of July and school starts at a wonky time in August as well.  So frustrating.  Then we heard the rumor that due to budget cuts school for May and June may only be T/W/TH.  3 days!  WTH?

1 week checkup

Went to Logan's check up today.  Everything looks great.  He is clear to brush thoroughly, eat anything now.
The remaining teeth with slowly move into that space just giving him more room all over.

Also when picking him up I got good news from his teacher for a change.  He has been good as gold the past 2 weeks and is now up to 3 homework passes!  So as a treat he gets to bring a friend to the Childrens Museum on Saturday.  Hopefully he can continue....

Friday looks like

A very swollen kid

Another tooth pulled

So at the end of February we went in for the boys 6 mo checkup.  Logan had updated Xrays and we found that the permanent tooth in the space where we had his hooked baby tooth removed was not growing correctly.  Instead of growing up and out it appeared it was growing sideways along his jaw.  It was pushing on the root of his molar and causing it to fall forward into the space.  So we went for a consultation with the same oral surgeon who took out the baby tooth.    His opinion was to remove it as there was no way it was ever going to grow up as it should it would either try and continue along his jaw or out either side.

So this morning we went in.
Here he is ready to go

 And afterwards, All is well mom.  They said he did great.  They didn't let me back there while they put him out but they said he did great.  No fussing, he was just chatting away.  He totally didn't remember going to sleep which I guess is good.  He told me he was awake the whole time.  He also told the nurse his favorite ride at Disneyland was Indiana Jones.  (We've never been to Disney)

 After stopping for a Jamba Juice we headed home.  I bought him a new Lego set as a distraction and he set to work.

 About 1 it was really starting to hurt so he got some Advil and watched some cartoons with Mac.

 He's done really well.  His little cheek is swollen and its really starting to hurt but he's been really good about it.

 And here is the stubborn tooth that wouldn't cooperate.

Still not sure if he will go to school tomorrow.  We'll see how he feels when he gets up.

Happy birthday to me

Ok so I'm a little behind but I'm getting there.

I ran away for 3 days for my birthday with my oldest and dearest friends.  We went here.  It was pretty swank.
We rented one of the suites.  So on Thursday, my actual birthday they had been taunting me about my birthday surprise.  I admit I was a bit scared.

So we get dressed and go and to my surprise we went and saw Warrant.  They bought dinner seats so we could actually have a place to sit but oh boy that may have been the worst dinner EVER.  We came to the conclusion that they pretty much just opened a frozen dinner and microwaved it.  It was G-NARLY.

 Boy we are rockers aint we?

 How funny is it that he has a glass of wine?  Eric Turner, guitar.  Cass has no shame.  She totally plugged the fact it was my birthday to get the guys to pose for photos.

 Jerry Dixon, bass.  I had the hugest crush on him back in the day.

 New singer, since Jani Lane is dead.  He was very good.

 We bum rushed the stage....

 On Saturday we went to the spa at the Four Seasons.  Talk about Swank!  We spent all day there courtesy of a Dr that Cass consults for.  Thanks Dr!  Vic and I got massages and facials and Cass got a heavy duty deep tissue massage.  We then soaked in the hot tub for a while, ate lunch by the pool and hit the sauna.  I've never spent all day at a spa before and I must say it was quite enjoyable.  Good thing Cass has a generous employer as I'd never be able to afford it otherwise!  Yowsa.  But it was very fun to live the posh life for a day.  We then went to Malibu to Nobu.
Now I don't eat sushi.  Unless its a California Roll.  It grosses me out to no end.  But several glasses of passionfruit sake changed my mind.  So I gave it a shot.  It was very good but still not my cup of tea.

 This was scallop truffle chips.  Pretty yummy

this was Yellowtail sashimi,also good.

We also went to Sweet Arleens to get cupcakes.  She has been on Food Network's Cupcake Wars and won, twice!  They are very good but way too much frosting.  We (well they) did some clothes shopping and then we had to go home. 

 We ended up getting a screaming deal on our hotel as well.  Both Friday and Saturday nights there was quite a ruckus in the room next to ours.  Friday night there was a bachelorette party (we think)  They ended up getting escorted out by the cops.  Saturday it was a drugged up, drunk cougar (yes she went to the cougar bar and brought someone back to her room = and she is married).  Anyway when we went to check out the security guy told Cass she pitched quite the fit when they threw her out.  Because of these two things we got one night free and $100 off each of the other nights and free breakfast.  Can't beat that.

Its always fun to be back with Cass and Vic.  They have known me practically my whole life and its nice to not have to work at a friendship.  The only downside is it always makes me miss them so much more when its time to go back to reality.   sigh....

It was a very fun weekend.