Only The Daddy Dies?

We had one busy weekend. Well, one busy Saturday, rather. Today I didn't do much but sit at my parents house and watch the Browns lose. Yesterday was pretty cool. It started out with my work throwing their annual children's Christmas party. We had a fun time. More importantly, the boy had a fun time. First, he was very excited to see Mary's girls. And if that wasn't enough, Jungle Terry the traveling petting zoo was there too. He touched everything except the tarantula, which I don't blame him. When I was his age I had a fear of spiders. I think I can thank my sister & mom for that one.

(Sidenote - I just bolted upstairs because I heard Audioslave's 'Be Yourself' playing on TV. I thought it was weird that wifey was listening to my music. When I got up there it was playing during the final few minutes of "Crossing Jordan" during a scene montage thingy. I only mention this because I was talking to someone about that song months ago when it came out, that it sounded like a song that would be playing during a montage scene in a movie. Weird. This is the second time I've heard this song played in this fashion. I heard it a month ago while wifey was watching 'One Tree Hill' [barf].)

Where was I....Oh yes, So the boy & the girl got to sit on Santa's lap. The boy play some games too, so he enjoyed himself. The only thing that sucked, well, only for me I guess, is that I took a nice healthy gulp of chunky milk from that awesomely bad breakfast they served us there. I still get the barf reflex just thinking about it. Wifey thinks it's funny and keeps mentioning it. It'll be funny when I barf all over her...boo ya!

Next up was the X-Mas party for the boy's preschool. I didn't have as much fun here as the last party, but at least I didn't drink anything rotten. The boy had an OK time. He was sad he didn't win a stuffed animal door prize. They had a really bad magician perform for about 10 minutes and the Santa(Yes, again) line was horrible. We were there for about 2 hours or so then split to my parents house for some rest in between events.

Me and the boy took a nap for about an hour and then it was off to the FarmParks for a horse drawn carriage ride through their X-Mas lights displays. It was really neat, and really cold. We both had a good time. Wifey and the girl waiting inside because we were afraid the baby might get too cold. When we were done we went inside to Santa's Workshop where we got to pick out a wood toy kit, build it and paint it. This year the boy picked the fire engine. I picked a unicorn for my sleepy princess. It was pretty fun, but no where near as fun as last year's when Rangersto
was working. Our elves did a fine job helping us build the toys though. Thanks again, Chris!

Whew!!! We ain't done yet! So, next was dinner. We had a $25 Pickle Bill's gift card we've been holding on to for almost a year and finally after 2 different times trying to eat there, we actually made it in. The first time they just started their winter hours (closing at 9 on a Saturday?!?! wtf) and the second time we drove up only to see they are closed Mondays. I had all-you-can-eat crab legs. Goddamn I love the seafood. Apparently so does the boy. I had to keep sneaking him crab bits all through dinner. I think for his birthday we'll get him his own crab dinner. We had a good dinner there. We are still trying to figure out why they need a police officer sitting there. Were they robbed recently or something?

Our boy cracked us up on the way home from the restaurant. Out of nowhere he asked us:
"Do scweas poop?"
"What?"
"Do scweas poop?!"
"What? Do stores poop?"
"NO!!! Scweas!"
"Stars?!"
"Scweas!"
"What's a scwea??"
"Uhhhh. A scwea." (Thanks!)
"Well, what's it look like?"
"Scweas....(long silence as we are laughing our asses off)....they eat nuts."
"Ohhh squirrels?!?!"
"Yea!!!"
(Lots of laughing)"Yes, they poop."

I was laughing so hard I cried. Hilarious. You probably had to be there to the full humor out of it. It was good.

All in all it was a fun day. Exhausting too.

Oh, I almost forgot about the title of this post. The last few nights the boy has been having problems sleeping by himself. Last night he came in and hopped into bed with us, which made for somewhat of a confrontation between me and wifey, because we are both crabby as hell when woken up during the night. Anyway, long story short, we were over the in-laws this morning for breakfast and my mum-in-law asked him why he hopped into bed. He said he had a nightmare. When asked what about, he said that he and I were walking in the woods when a monster tried to get us. Mum-in-law asked, "Well, didn't daddy save you?" The boy said,"Uhh, daddy died." WTF?!?!

I'm gonna get ready for sleep now. I think this is my longest post evah!!! I've passed 50 posts, sweet.