Rough Morning

Tai has traces of both urine and yogurt in his hair.
There's oatmeal on the bathroom floor.
There are peanuts in the high chair
and snots everywhere.

Apparently shoes are now the enemy (yesterday it was pants).
And being left at school by your daddy is just heartbreaking.

How was your morning?

I just saved $13.50

It's going to rain tomorrow. And at Tai's daycare they go outside everyday, rain or shine. So the boy needed some rain boots, and fast. My new favorite website has free overnight shipping, but even that wouldn't get the boots here in time for school tomorrow morning. Plus, the boots cost $20-$30 and I have a hard time paying that much for something he might only wear 3 or 4 times before he outgrows them.

So I called a local kids consignment shop and learned that they had gender-appropriate rain boots in Tai's size for a mere $6.50. Even if I bought the cheapest boots online, that's a savings of $13.50.* So I practically ran out the door, in the middle of the work day, to get those boots.

Now my boy has boots to wear tomorrow. And he really likes them. He was wearing them around the house this evening and was very excited to show them off to Minh when he arrived home from work.

Oddly enough, somewhere along the way, I must have developed a thing for green shoes. Without realizing what I was doing, I've purchased Tai three pairs of green shoes in the past several months (see photo). Someday I'm sure he'll tell his therapist all about it--how all the other kids had lots of different-colored shoes and he only had green.

*And for those of you who haven't studied Minh-conomics, that means I actually made $13.50 today and I rellay need to treat it like found money and go splurge on something.

"Don't take this the wrong way..."

That's how Minh started his proposal that he buy me the newest thing in hair-care because the Frizzies are just out of control.  Apparently, my hair is looking so tormented these days, it was actually distracting him during a recent staff meeting.  (So perhaps work should pay for this new endeavor, as my dry frazzled hair might actually be negatively impacting my co-workers' concentration and productivity?)

What remains a mystery to me, at this point, is:

(1) How Minh even knows about this new "hair phenomenon," especially since he doesn't have any hair of his own.

(2) Whether this really is the miracle product it claims to be.

(3) Which "flavor" he's buying me.

At some point in the near-ish future, I'll be sure to post a review. I know you'll all be waiting with bated breath. 

What did he just say?

Herpan-Coxsa-What?

Tai was a member of The Toddler Room for all of 3 days before catching his first disease. Last Thursday he was diagnosed with herpangina, (which sounds too much like Herpes). It's caused by coxsackie (which sounds dirty) and is similar to hand-foot-and-mouth disease (which sounds very much like a livestock issue to me.)

On Thursday our pediatrician (whom we love) warned us, "this is not a fun one." To which Minh quickly replied, "yeah, and RSV was a blast." And on Friday Minh was wondering what the big deal was--Tai already seemed much better. But later that night we figured out what the doctor was talking about. He was right, it's not a fun one (are there actually fun diseases?)

Long story short, Tai was pretty miserable for a couple days, not inclined to eat much, and (worst of all) too uncomfortable to sleep at night. But he's all better now and our only remaining problems is breaking his new habit of sleeping in our bed.

Dinner at the Farm

Last week we were enticed by an email invitation to come have dinner at our CSA. Since Tai absolutely LOVES going to the farm, we figured it would be a good time. And it was.

But after spending $12 on two very small sandwiches and $25 on a HUGE box of organic Maine blueberries, we still left hungry. Minh and I ended up eating frozen pizza that night after Tai went to bed.

The good news is we have enough blueberries in our freezer to last many months.