Friday, February 26, 2010

Book worm


Jack has handled the transition from his crib to his new bed in his new room like a champ. He's also been surprisingly obedient about staying in his room until Boo, his monkey alarm clock "wakes up" at 7, even though we suspect he's in there at 6am playing. Until yesterday that is. I made the mistake of telling another mom that he doesn't seem to know that he can get out of his room or hasn't tried anyway. Why did I do that? I said it all self deprecatingly, like "oh he's too dumb to realize he's free" so it wouldn't come off as braggy. But the universe knows. 



That night, Nipper and I went to dinner at a place downtown called Bottega Louie. It was amazing! We had portobello mushroom fries, and corn with bacon and swiss chard, and a rocket salad, and chicken with lemon and capers, and pasta with rib-eye and swiss chard, and a chocolate souffle, and WHOLE bottle of Magnificat meritage. Whoops. Oh, and they have french style macaroons, and their boxes look very laduree-ish



We came home, and I immediately passed out on the couch watching American Idol. I'm really romantic like that.  First time we've been out since the infamous Christmas date, and I'm like Gary Busey on a Tuesday. Jack's nanny Brenda had put him to bed, which has only ever happened one other time in his life. SO around 1:30 in the morning, Jack wakes up, thinks, "Are mommy and daddy still gone?" get's up, walks into the hallway, then, stunned, he says, standing in our bedroom, "Hey! I just opened that door". Sigh... I cursed myself, took two advil, and lay awake the next two hours, as Jack went back to sleep ON Nippers head, and the two of them battled for mattress real estate and who can snore the loudest. Jack won. 

Before he made his big break I was finding stuff like this when I went into his room in the morning:


Yes, the iphone, and the helicopters are in there, but also BOOKS! And a flashlight! Could it be I already have a little reader? Is he too young to be reading under the covers with a flashlight? Do kids even do that anymore? More likely he was using the flashlight to "shoot" something, but a mom can dream.  When I was very small we lived in a small town, right next door to the public library, which was also very small. The librarian had to make a rule that I was not allowed take out books and return them on the same day. I would walk over, get a stack, take them back to my room, where I would curl up in my closet and read them. She also had to make a rule that I wasn't allowed to eat red pistachios and read her books. Somewhere out there, are a whole slew of public library books with tiny pink fingerprints all over them. 

6 comments:

  1. You're such a good writer.

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  2. Jack's room looks awesome! I need to see him soon. move to Nashville please.

    -Auntie Swing.

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  3. His room can't seriously be that neat. I'm jealous.

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  4. Swing...as if there were any chance we'd ever move to Nashville...those hopes are now completely dashed since we're getting a Chick Fil A.

    That dead dream is now...deader.

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  5. Becky, I'm afraid his room is that neat. He has two ocd neat freak parents. He did a book shelf clear the other night, but little elves came right in and cleaned it right up. phew...

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  6. I have bins, I have bookshelves, I have baskets. I also have a million books, blocks and toys all over the house. Cormac's actually the kind of kid who says "uh-oh" and puts things back but he's going through some kind of Godzilla phase where everything has to be spilled out in a tremendous flourish (with appropriate sound effects). The best is when he's mad and races to the fridge roaring and windmilling his arms to swipe the magnet letters off. It's classic. And messy.

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