My dear boy's birthday

Meant to post this 10/10 (on the actual day):

skyler came into bed with me around 6:30am, which is strange because that's the time labor started on his birthday. Six years ago I was grumpily telling Darcy to turn off the alarm at 7:45am, which is when Sky and I woke up. I sang him happy birthday in bed.

He started saying something about butts and laughing. I shook him and mock-demanded: "Why do you like butts so much?!" which made him laugh more. He said "Its a secret!"

"You don't keep secrets from your mother, tell me!"
"I like butts because they make farts"
"Well that's not a secret"
...

"I have another secret about me and Tibee"
"What is it? TELL ME!!"
"We like to smack each other on the butt"

"So youre saying all your secrets are about butts?"
"Yeah"

we got up and had french toast, the jumped back in bed to snuggle, got up to get ready, drove to pick up my taxes in lafayette, dropped by D's gym so that sky could say happy birthday, gave him a card and present for HIS birthday,

We then took BART and muni train to GG park, had lunch, went to the CA Academy of Sciences,
didnt realize it closed at 5pm. we got there at 3pm... but we did manage to see the planetarium show, which was way cool!

afterwards we went to a japanese restaurant that has the little room where you sit on the floor without shoes, had yummy food. they gave us green tea ice cream with a candle and sang happy birthday

Tired, we trekked across SF, came back home, had bathtime and watched a movie.

All in all a pretty magical day!

just when you thought you were safe

I belong to an email list, a pretty active community of moms. This is a place I have felt safe for the last five years to be able to post pretty much anything going on for me. Today, that safety was violated.

Today my son's principal called to say that he was sent to the office for inappropriately touching another student. She then informed me that it was the third time, and that next time he would be sent home.

First off, I'm pissed that I wasn't told the first two times. That is not ok with me. There will be talks with the principal for sure... when I'm not so angry.

My first instinct was to post to my list to see what I should do. I've gotten some solid advice from these women. I forgot that my sister in law (not the one I am close to) is on the list. She was molested as a young girl and decided to write this post (onlist!) about how she felt like my son was an "abusive, bullying relative", which is completely untrue.

I feel embarrassed, ashamed and angry. If she had sent that to me personally, I could have responded privately. Now I feel like my son has been labeled a bad person to about 100 people and I have been labeled as someone who permits bad behavior. Which is (AGAIN) untrue!

I sent a short reply to the list about it being inappropriate venue for her post. I cannot possibly respond in any rational way. I sent something to the list about how I was feeling, kept it to two sentences. I will respond to her privately in detail when I can do so without being SO DAMN ANGRY.

muppets and ice cream

I took my boy to SF tonight to see the Muppet Movie in Dolores Park. It was great to see the Muppet Movie again, with everyone laughing and cheering. At the end, they turned down the sound so we could all sing along with the Rainbow Connection. Yay!

Afterwards we went to birite creamery. Mmmmmmm late-night ice cream. The girl behind the counter served Skyler before the three people in front of us. Super sweet!

I had salted caramel and roasted banana, while Sky had coconut and mint chip (umm... are you sure you want that?!) Its some of the most delicious ice cream I've had. I totally recommend a trip there!

That sugar boost gave us the energy we needed to walk up the umpteen hills to where I had to park the car. My guy was a trooper!

He stayed awake on the way home, because we have his Leapster game on loan from his dad (man, I can’t wait to give that back!!) but as soon as we got home he was like “mom, I need to go to bed RIGHT NOW”.

Yeah, I'm about ready to go to bed myself.

you can tell its been a while if...

I just got the DVD for the my son's school variety show (I may need to post our act later on YouTube). One of the hosts of the show is Mr K, one of the teachers. In the middle of watching the DVD with my son, I asked him "hey, is Mr K married?" (thinking, hmmm he's cute!) My son looked at me with confusion (and I'm sure if he had been a teenager it would have been mixed with disgust) and said, "I don't know!!"

ha!

a beautiful day in Santa Cruz

My bf and I took our kids to the Boardwalk on Sunday. It was a gorgeous day! My favorite part was spending time at the beach. The water was nice and cool on a hot day. It felt deliciously slippery around my legs.

Sky got completely soaked! At one point, he went under a wave. I raced in to haul him up, soaking my iPhone in the process. He sputtered and announced "mom, that was SO COOL!!!" So much for me saving his life! ;)

Today I went in to the Apple store and bought a new iPhone. DOH!!!

god I love him

This morning Sky has a hard time picking what he wants for breakfast. To get over his frustration in the moment, he goes to iTunes to pick out music. "The amp isn't on" I say as I walk away. I start making banana bread and music comes on. "This sounds like Prince"