So this why I hear helicopters circling tonight?

( I live about 5 minutes from Teteboro airport in NJ )

Stuff

Our television is more or less permanetly on Nickelodeon. I do not like the new show Mr. Meaty - it's really stupid. But Alan likes it, but then again he likes anything on television it seems.

I saw a few ads today for various kid products. It seems play kitchens are getting really fancy. First there was Dora's Talking Kitchen which included recipies! Then I saw Ariel's Talking Kitchen - what does a mermaid need a kitchen for? Alan had an older, less fancy version of Little Tykes Discovery Sounds Kitchen, all it did was make sounds when stuff was on the burner and the timer dinged - good enough to pretend by.

But the most annoying thing I saw was My Little Pony So Soft Walking Sweet Steps. Why? It's a pony in a walker! First of all, aren't walkers bad for babies anyway. Second ponies do not walk on 2 legs, they walk on 4. (They don't use rattles or sippy cups either).

On a more positive note, Alan and I enjoyed listening to the Jack Johnson soundtrack from the film Curious George. I liked what I'd heard on the DVD, so I got the CD to check out. I didn't realize I'd heard the first track on the radio (WPLJ). It's nice folk/singer songwriter music.

Another busy day in the life!

Alan and I had one very busy day today.

First was his class trip to Demarest Farms for pumpkin picking. It was his teacher, the aide, myself, Alan and 5 of his classmates on a full sized school bus for a 20 minute ride. It actually went well and I think everyone enjoyed it. Alan did run a little, but I think he'd wanted to see the "apple forest" - the apple trees on either side of the field which had pumpkins dumped on it. I bought some apple cider in the farm stand to take home with us.

Afterwards, we went home and had lunch. At 2 we left to go on the rest of our day. First we went to the library to pick up our requests (a DVD came in) and return some CD's. Alan wanted to take out a Thomas book (no suprise). Then I dropped off an item to a freecycler (a music keyboard we got off freecycle and didn't need). At 3 was an eye doctor appointment. Alan behaved very well there. The pediatric eye doctor has lots of cool things for him to look at and Alan was pretty cooperative in general. The doctor reported that Alan's vision is fine and he won't need to go back for 2 years.

Then we went to Target. I got him 2 Thomas trains - one as a reward for the eye doctor, and one to give him if he were good later. I also got Alan a winter coat/snow pants/hat/gloves - I started out looking for gloves and a hat to match his two hand-me-down red coats. But since both his coats are down, I wanted something washable. The coat I got is washable and is a size XS which covers sizes 4 to 5 which means it should fit for 2 years. While I was shopping Alan fell asleep in the cart, he did need a nap.

Our last stop was the dentist. Surprisingly Alan was very cooperative - he let the dentist look in his mouth. And the dentist was able to get the 4 x-rays - although Alan moved during one of them. But the bad news - Alan has 2 cavities in the molars. So we are back in 2 weeks for a filling and then again for the other. Sigh.

When we got home, Alan got the Thomas trains (Molly and Alfie) and was happy. He's asleep now, probably dreaming about either pumpkins or trains!