The Day After · posted Mar 31, 06:51 PM

We had a nice day yesterday. I got to get up at 7 and take Zoë to the vet for a teeth cleaning and a tons of other stuff that she needed to have done. Then I needed to take Icky in at 4 to the shot clinic to get the rest of his shots and pick up Zoë. She did fine with the anesthesia and doesn’t seem to hate me!

We went to the Bohemian Brewery for Jeremiah’s Birthday dinner and met Sarah and my Aunt Tami. It was really nice (Ma, if it makes you feel any less jealous…nobody had your favorite Rueben!). The boys both did really well and we were even there for 2 hours. When I was at the party store I found this cute hat for Jeremiah (he always says hats are too small for him…this one was sure to not get his hopes up!) and a little Buzz Lightyear toy for Davin that I wrapped with Jeremiah’s gift. Davin goes “Wow, can I borrow that Dad!” He was pretty excited that he got a gift too. I got Jeremiah a hot air balloon ride for the 4 of us that we can do whenever. Probably sometime this spring when everything is green and prettier to look at. When I told him his gift was bigger than a car he was a big puzzled. Then on the way in I told him it was even bigger than a house.

That morning we had made Jeremiah a cake and decorated it and I told Davin to keep it a secret. While I was at the party store I found soccer candles to put on the cake so I had Davin put them on. Then he went back in the bedroom, looked at me and whispered “What do I say?” I said “Nothing, don’t blow our cover!” Davin amazingly kept the secret of the cake! Earlier when I asked Davin what Daddy would like on his cake he said “Um, a Pontiac”. Is that not the truth or what?!

You can’t see it that well but Davin’s trike bucked him off onto our railing and he got a big old lump that apparently didn’t hurt that bad and then he was doing a jig with Aunt Tami and ran into the corner of the table and got another lump! Poor guy.

After we had cake Jeremiah was on the phone with his family for a while and Davin and I were just sitting around playing and my head told me I needed to lie down. Davin asked if he could come with me…even though I figured it wouldn’t help my head I said sure. Well to my surprise he sat on the bed with me and our convo went a little like this:
We first talked about the Wiggles for a few minutes and then Davin said “So now what’s wrong with your head?”
“I’m just having headaches, they don’t know why yet”
“Well, we’d better get you to the doctor. Don’t worry; they’ll make you feel all better.” He then asked me to take my pig tails out so he could rub my head to make it feel better!
After that relaxing scalp massage he, in a very empathetic tone said “Mom, thank you so much for helping me make Daddy a birthday cake. And thank you for lighting the soccer candles and the other candles and singing happy birthday with me. I was so happy today. Then Jeremiah came in and told Davin it was time for bed and Davin said he needed to stay in here with me to make me feel better and that Jeremiah needed to just go back out there and not come back in for a very long couple of minutes. Ha! We sat in the dark and talked for about 15 minutes. He was so good yesterday I could swear he was 6 years old. That’s why I’m getting this post in early today he’s getting to watch some extra cartoons during snack tome. I can hear him yelling things in Spanish as he’s watching Dora the Explorer as I’m posting this.