We’ve become quite lazy on the weekends. Lately it seems like we not only have no where to go, but we also like to stay home. Maybe because fall is here and I feel more of a desire to stay in and be warm (although the 75 degree weather this weekend does NOT feel like fall). Plus, where are we to go? A lot of places cost a lot of money, like the zoo (parking is $25 alone!). And who has all that money for that? Or we end up at a store and I spend money I don’t have.
So weekends we’re usually inside. Now that the mosquitoes aren’t biting much (unless we disturb them over in the brushy side of the yard), we’re able to hang outside a bit. Once we get a little more underway in the season, we’ll be able to go outside more and rest assure that those damn mosquitoes are totally gone!
Anyhow, the boys are growing up so quickly! I had a major realization that Kojo is turning a YEAR OLD next month!! I feel like I have totally abandoned this blog because of my Thrift Diving, and I haven’t been documenting as much. My poor old memory isn’t going to be able to remember any of this years from now. So this is my only record of raising my kids, sadly!
Here are some good things I hope to always remember!
- Ohene can write his name!! This weekend I was coloring with the boys (we had such a good time color on Friday night, listening to some old 70’s disco music on Pandora), and he and Kwabena were so in to their pictures. Anyhow, I asked Ohene to write it name, and I spelled out the letters, and he wrote his name!! I know he’s been working with Miss Marilyn on it, but it’s amazing to see him do it all himself. He’s such a big boy!
- Kwabena’s done
KWABENA
I really do see what people say when they think that boys should be held back until age 6. I’m not saying that this would have worked for Kwabena, because academically, he’s too advanced. But socially, I see it. This year he’s done sooooo much better, behavior-wise. This past week he came home with STARS all week, which means “great day.” I was so proud of him! In Kindergarten, seemed like daily he was coming hom with some report of inappropriate behavior or something like making noises in class or something. But now look at him. I went to his school last Monday on Columbus Day for Open House and it was amazing seeing him be so grown up in class. He’s still got some attention issues, but the silliness of his behavior, for the most part, is dwindling. He gets some “Needed Some Reminders” reports, and from the start of the year, has only have one “Needed Lots of Reminders.” But for the most part, he’s doing great. He attributes his great week last week to “Mommy coming to schoo.” 🙂 Whatever it is, I hope it continues!
Kwabena’s involved in karate right now, through the Montgomery County Rec Department programs. It’s on Thursday nights, from 6-7 p.m. If he likes it, I will try to get him into something more structued as he gets older. He says he wants to play football, too, although Kwasi is hesitant for that, due to risk of injuries.
OHENE
My boy can write his name! Miss Marilyn has been working with him on it, and this past Friday night, we had a really good time coloring (while Kojo slept). And then Ohene signed his name as I read the letters to him, and it was amazing! So proud of him! I knew he was working on it at Miss Marilyn’s but I didn’t ever get to see him write it quite so well.
Ohene is soooo dramatic. I tell him all the time he should be an actor when he grows up. The way he responds to stuff with these temper tantrums is a bit funny. A few days ago he bit his tongue while eating and he got down from the table and started running back and forth from the stove to the fridge….stove to fridge…stove to fridge, like one of those wrestlers on the WWF, boucning back and forth, against the ropes. Hilarious! And when he can’t find something, he wails, “It’s gooooonnnneee!!” So dramatic. He’s been known to hit his penis and wail, “I’m deeaadd!” Oh my goodness. That boy…. LOL. He likes to whisper to me as I put them to bed, “Uncle Genfi is a butt-face.” LOL It used to be, “I love you too much.” But I guess this is now more important to tell me. LOL
KOJO
My kid is freakin’ cute. OMG, I know all my boys are cute, but when you’ve got that cute little person in your face, making his baby noises and seeing his little cute baby feet, you just want to eat him up. He is totally walking now, and have 4 teeth in, and 4 new ones are popping through as we speak. He’s able to say “Mama” and “Dada” although I don’t think he uses them as much as he did before, but I can swear he’s now saying a version of “MORE” when he wants more bites of something! I’ll have to find out what Ohene’s first word was. I think it was also “MORE”!
KWASI
I don’t think I updated it here, but Kwasi burned himself a couple weeks ago in the kitchen!!! It was horrible. And all my fault, as I am the one that put the popcorn in the glass container up in the cabinet that was too stuffed. It fell out the morning of (I think) Oct. 2nd, and it knocked over the electric hot water kettle. It burned about 5-6 inches on his upper left thigh. He wouldn’t go to Patient First until 3 days later when it was extrememly painful. UGH….I’m glad he’s okay now. Kojo was standing right there so it could have gotten him, too! Thankfully it didn’t. Very scary, indeed! The skin is healing now and the brown is coming back. ICK!
ME
Nothing new here! I’m still doing my Thrift Diving, but I’ve not been so active with it because of 1) lack of time, and 2) still working out some technical issues with the site. But I’m going to do this thing, because I have come to realize that I’m just not a Corporate America person. I see myself working in a studio, and blogging, and painting, and creating. I don’t know how lucrative that can be throughout my life, but I know it’s a calling I must answer to. It bothers me sometimes that I’m 34 and I feel like I’ve done nothing with my life career-wise. I’m in the same research positions that I have been in all my adult life, and my wages have been stagnant. But then I think, “How could you advance when it’s not what you want to do, anyhow?” Then again, I have not advanced creative-wise, either. But I’m ready to move forward. I have a lot of ideas, and potential, and I have to find a way to make it happen on very little time or money. I will write more about this later. Let me just include that I am losing weight, albeit slowly. When I came back to work March 1st-ish, I was 185 pounds. It’s now the middle of October and I am 168. My goal is to be back at 155-155. I can do it. I just have to pull through. And I’m going to join the gym again today. $40 a month is a lot, but for the benefits, it will be worth it.
Funny Things
Just a few funny things from the kids recently:
- This weekend I stood in the doorway of the family room, calling “Ay…ay!” to the kids, and they didn’t answer. I decided to add, “Candy” to my calling, and wouldn’t you know they turned around instantly? HILARIOUS!
- This weekend I took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese and they got plastic vampire fangs as their prizes. Kwabena was saying as we went through the McDonald’s drive-through, “I’m going to suck your blood!” I said, “I’m going to suck all the blood out of your arteries like a straw!” He responded. “Okay. That’s just too violent.” It was so funny how he said it!
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