Vicarious Rocky

I am looking for her! She left my group pediatric practice and I miss her and would love to know if she started her own practice in the area. Soooo, if she did, she should throw a page online saying where she is so that parents that appreciated her expertise can seek out her services. For all I know though she retired or became a teacher or moved, in which case I wish her well. But, if she's getting her own office, I hope this comes up in search engines when she Google's herself, so she knows to throw out a shingle online.

-- Indiana's Mom :-)

On the way to school, we talked about Sunshine the turtle and the lunch choices. He really was hoping for Mac and Cheese. That was a choice yesterday he must have wished he'd gotten. Then we discussed why MiMi (the 6 yr old girl down the street he is in love with) cannot go to school with him.

Then we had this conversation:
Indy: "What if you didn't ever have to go to work again?"
R: "That would be cool. But then you wouldn't get to go to school."
Indy: "No you could just stay."
R: "Oh, so you would still go but I would go too!?"
Indy: "Yeah!"

So I rambled on about parents over taking schools and the declined standard of living with all these unproductive parents. We changed the subject and then as we're getting out of the car at school he says: "I miss you."

Sigh. I love this kid. I tell him I miss him too, but it's so great that I'll see him right after lunch.

We walk into the building and he is on fire with joy. Almost running and talking to and about the kids walking down the hall with him. He won't hold my hand. He stands in front of the Kindergarten room and talks about how cool it is in there. Then we get to his room, pick lunch, wash hands, look at sunshine the turtle. He shows me where he sits for circle time. Starts talking to the teacher. I kiss him goodbye, walk out, and I look back before I round the corner of the door to see him beaming ear to ear and talking to some kid.

I have NO idea how this happened.

After 6 months of motherly hand wringing, my son pulled childhood literally out of his toddler ass these last two weeks. He went from like 3 successful trips to the potty to almost entirely trained about 1 week before preschool. Yeesh!

Then, today, the first real day of school, we hang for 10 minutes talking to other parents, and he is totally ignoring us and playing with stuff. We kiss him goodbye, wave from the door, and he looks a little remorseful.

When we pick him up he declares, "Will you go to work tomorrow so I can go to school?"

I'm sorry, what?!? Seriously? He continues to chatter in the car all the way home about what happened that day at school. Then tonight before bed Sage asks what his favorite part of the day was (typical question). Well, I expected him to say dinner out, the bubbles we bought at World Market, or the ice cream cone he got for popping on the potty this evening.

He said, "School and School and School." We just HAD to ask if there was anything he didn't like about school. He said "salad" and then burst out laughing.

What a pleasant shock this has been!

Considering Starting a Business? Think it maybe just might be profitable? Make your attorney do an S-Corp. Yes, you have to file minutes. Big whoopin deal.

I'd have WAY preferred filing minutes the last 8 years than dealing with the hassle of switching from LLC to S-Corp. and getting a new Fed ID number. BAH. And to make it way more funner (as Sage would say) our fax machine at work is dead and I'm sending shit at Kinkos for $2.50 a page.

You might think a future S-Corp., with an internet client that has the word "FAX" in it, would maybe have an electronic faxing system in place. You would be wrong.

This is what my son said at 9:30 last night after spending a little less than an hour in bed. He woke up, climbed up to see us in the attic, and made that announcement before mentioning that he wanted to start playing with his race track again. A Race Track he got for using the potty and staying clean and dry all day on Saturday.

The crazy part is, I don't think he was being manipulative. I truly believe he fell asleep, woke up all excited, and then thought he'd slept enough to start a new day. Part of why I think that, is because he looked out the window twice before getting back in bed and kept asking,
"Is it sunshiney?"
To which I replied, "No. And you need to stay in bed until it is sunshiney."
"Oh."

We switched out the baby furniture today for new "kid" furniture from IKEA. Indy is Blissed out and keeps leaning over the top bunk and talking about how high up he is and how cool it is to climb the ladder. He told me tonight that his new bed is a little scary (he sleeps on the bottom for anyone worrying it is actually worth being scared about). But he was positively beaming when I told him he could climb out himself tomorrow without calling for me in order to be a sneaky "morning mouse." That is his phrase for tiptoeing into someone's room and bed to wake them up.

Here's the Nursery:




Here's the New Room:

Better late than never. Two weeks until school starts and he finally shot the piss into the toilet. I am so relieved! So for those keeping score, we have 3 shits in the john thus far and two pees. Hopefully MANY more to come.

Why does summer feel over on August 13th? Boooooo.

We went to The Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

We got stuck in the elevator there and Indy did not think that was fun as you can tell.

Holly Hung out with us a lot in her final 2 weeks at the Lewis house.

We went to Ikea and bought Douku a tent.

I enjoyed Holly's camp food.


And Cedar Point Food.


And Indy's Cedar Point Shadow Dance show.


Holly had her going way party at work.

Holly showed Indy where corn comes from and then he ate it raw.


We went to the Medina County Fair and saw lots of stuff including the bouncy pit toddler area.

Then Holly gave Indy a Pirate hat and had to go home . . .