We finally won a Championship. HALLAYFREAKINLEUJAH!!!!
The Philadelphia Phillies are the 2008 World Series Champs. Can you believe it????? Is the curse finally broken?
Well obviously I'm thrilled. It's been a long time coming here in these parts. I watched the last few innings at work with my coworkers, and today my knee is killing me from jumping up and down in total freak out mode when Brad Lidge threw that last pitch. It was amazing.
So the big parade that has alluded this town for so long is tomorrow. I want to go, but it's Halloween and I'm a room mother again this year (how do I get myself into these things? Oh yeah, I can't keep my big pie hole shut...that's why...) She doesn't want to miss her parade and party at school, and my poor hubby has been waiting for this moment pretty much his whole life. So he's going and taking the Boy, too.
Then, after that, while the Phillies fans systematically dismantle the rest of the city (they got pretty rowdy last night, or so I heard...I know it was pretty crazy near Vine where I crossed over Broad last night heading home...), we'll be doing tricks or treats with the kids. Katie is dressing up as Mighty B and Jon as Peter Pan. Most folks have never heard of Mighty B, so, here ya go: http://www.nick.com/shows/mighty_b/index.jhtml So her costume consists of a vintage Brownie uniform I scored on ebay, a yellow felt sash and gigantic round black framed glasses. I'll try to get some pics up tomorrow.
As I write this my daughter is sitting here asking me how to spell out "Katie's First Holy Communion." She's making signs for her First Holy Communion party.
I should probably mention that she won't be making her First Holy Communion until May 2010.
I don't know where she gets this from. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life, and she's already working on things that are years ahead. Whatever tree she fell from, it was obviously much more well-organized than the one I fell off of...
I had mentioned to her earlier today that if she picks out an all flower girl white dress for Aunt Amanda and Uncle Mikey's wedding next summer, we may be able to use the same dress for her holy communion. So then ensued a discussion about what the First Holy Communion was all about, etc., and I mentioned it was a big deal--bigger than her birthday, bigger than Christmas...and we would be having a party in her honor.
That's all she needed to get started on the planning--a full 17 months in advance. I imagine we'll start working on her wedding after that. She just asked if she could make the invitations...I patiently explained that we would need to know what date and we would need to figure out where we would have the party, either here at home or at a restaurant. She's now sitting her contemplating the pros and cons of having a party at home or at a restaurant.
Good. Lawd.
She also mentioned last night that she wanted to be Jennifer Nettles from Sugarland for Halloween NEXT year, and went through how she was going to go about making herself look as such. We haven't even had THIS Halloween come and go yet, and she's already on the ball with next year's costume.
- Four places that I go to over and over: work, my school, kids' schools (that's two I guess..),
- Four people who e-mail me (regularly): Missy, Jen, Ashley, Kelly
- Four of my favorite places to eat: Square on Square (Chinese delivery), Home (since I don't get to have dinner there much), My Grandma's house (always YUM), Adelphia
- Four places I would rather be right now: Mexico, On a junket with my mommies, in bed sleeping with no kids screaming or dog smacking me in the face,
- Four people I think will respond: Not sure!
- Four TV shows I watch: Daily Show, Colbert Report, The Dish, Anderson Cooper 360 (cuz he's HOT)
It's been a busy, crazy week, as per usual, but I have to report on our newest little family member, Miss Molly Brown. She went from being this timid, shy little thing to an UP. IN. YOUR. FACE. ALL. THE. TIME. PLAY. WITH. ME. OR. I'LL. SMACK. YOU. WITH. MY. BIG. GIANT. PAW. puppy doggie. She's awesome. We had a small incident where she scratched a hole in the carpet in our living room this morning...I suppose she was bored and lonely for the couple of hours she was alone at home while Jon and I were at school. She would definitely benefit from being crate trained, but money is a bit tight at the moment so we can't go out and buy a crate right this second. Either way, the little hole was hardly a big deal and the carpet is a cheap $40 area rug from Home Depot and has more than seen its days. But, other than that, and the fact that when she wakes up at 6 a.m. wanting to go outside, she thinks that because she is AWAKE, so should everyone else. She will then do everything in her power to try to wake you up. Twice this week I was greeted in the morning with a big giant paw-smack to the face, followed with some big slobbery puppy kisses...or if she doesn't kiss you, she sticks her big wet nose right up in your face. If she can't wake me up, then she goes to the other side and tries to hit up Daddy. If that doesn't work, she'll get up on the bed, and usually by then one or both of the kids are in bed with us, so she'll try to get up and start licking them awake.
It was endearing the first couple days...now it's rather annoying. But she's cute and we're already head over heels in love with our pupster, so we'll take it and anything else she has to bring along for the ride. She's a puppy, so these behaviors are to be expected. She's made AMAZING strides in the last week...like learning to not be so shy around grown-ups, learning to walk very nicely on a leash...and she hasn't had an accident in the house since Sunday.
She's really coming along. I'd like to get her into an obedience class soon. I think that would really help with some of the troublesome puppy behaviors, like the pawing and the 'mouthing' (when they play and like to nip or bite or mouth you...same way they'd play with other dogs because they don't realize we're not dogs yet...), and learning other good puppy manners.
The kids adore her. Jon was a little pissed today that he dropped part of his roll and because he didn't pick it back up right away, Molly ate it. Then when I commanded her to drop it and she complied, he exclaimed "Oh noooo!!! It's ALLL WET!!!" I think he really expected to be able to eat it. Crazy kid...
