Nuts

The only way I can think to describe today is "totally nutty". After another late night last night (my bad) we rushed this morning to get out the door in time for school. This preschool stuff will be an interesting adventure. Jeff took Oliver to school, and left just after story time. Oliver did such a good job all by himself today. Hooray!!

Emma also did super fabulous at her first day of gymnastics! The class is just perfect for her. She even attempted a forward roll all by herself. It kind of ended up looking more like a face splat, but she tried! Her favorite was the "tumble track", which is a long, narrow trampoline. A super duper runway for two year olds. (They must really use it for gymnast tricks, but today it was occupied by a mob of tots.) Emma loved to jump and do cannon balls on it. She is quite talented at doing cannon balls.

Although I am so proud of my wonderful kids, I can't say my day, personally was super fab. It was AHHH! At least the first half. After dropping Jeff and Ollie off in Harvard Square, Emma and I went to Target to pick up a few things. I opened the trunk to get out the stroller, grabbed the wheel to pull it forward, and @%^#*!!! My middle finger got smashed in the folding mechanism. (Metal frame stroller, finger stuck in hinge = extreme pain) For 5-10 LONG seconds I could not get my finger unstuck. The weight of the stroller had dropped out of the car, closing down on my finger, and my heroic left hand isn't so handy at getting right hand unstuck. Apparently. I honestly, not even kidding, thought my finger was being cut off! Ok... my finger is out, deeply cut at the first knuckle and totally numb. I'll be honest, I sat there on the bumper of the car for a few mins cursing and crying. At that point I was wondering still trying to figure out how bad this bad was. It sucked, but I sucked it up, got Emma in the stroller and went to get some first aid stuff. (went home with nothing from my list - darn it!) After a bit of panic and a band aid, Emma and I headed on to her gymnastics class.

I talked with the nurse on the phone and she requested that I come in. She ordered an X-ray (find out results tomorrow)and said that it could take a couple of weeks for the feeling to come back in my finger, due to nerve damage. Great. I now have a finger that feels like it has been sitting in a dentist chair too long. I suppose there are worse things though. I could have lost that fine digit to the mighty Phil and Ted. (brand of my stroller for the not so stroller savvy.)

The tides shifted this evening. We had a lot of fun at Naomi's 3rd birthday party. I was so happy to see Emma and Oliver playing really well with all of the kids and having a ton of fun. Other than Oliver getting into too many things that he shouldn't, and Emma getting beat up by a one year old (hit her with a plastic shovel and slapped her around a lot- totally shocking to her, super sad to me) the evening was a total success.

For once, I am hoping tomorrow will be totally uneventful. Boring would be perfect.

Ollie's first day of Preschool

I wish I had more than a moment to write right now, but I wanted to post a couple of photos of Oliver on his first day of preschool. It was really quite hilarious today (the parents were allowed to stay to observe the school program.)For a minute here and there I thought my son was going to be leading the preschool rebellion. Those nice preschool teachers are certainly going to have their hands full! During a rather quiet moment, Oliver decided to protest circle time, by shouting out "I do not like singing songs at all! I only like space ships!" He was very nicely told by his teacher "maybe some of the other friends here like to sing, and you might learn a new song that you will like to sing during circle time." His response was "it's not circle time! It's square time!" All things considered, Oliver did so well. I am so proud, and in total and complete denial that my little guy is not so little anymore. Tomorrow Jeff gets to go to school with Ollie for a bit. We'll try to report back if circle time went a little smoother the second time around :)