tradition?

today i splurged.

well, i don't know if i can call it that, seeing as how every last one in the house was broken by... a nameless culprit. i guess it was a necessity.

the splurge was that instead of normal drinking glasses, i bought hi-ball glasses. and only because they're called hi-ball glasses.

and then, i bought what i needed to make hi-balls.

i become more like those phillips/fitzsimmons women everyday.
and i don't know if that's good.

or bad.

sweet reminiscing...

today is jenney's birthday. well, today is in fact quite a few people's birthdays. brian bickel. liz wendt. someone else and someone else. my birthday is monday. bobby's birthday is wednesday. so is tim szostek's.

see how all these may birthdays just creep up? i love that some of my favorite people from my childhood share this month. and so close together. but most of all, i love how jenney is only two days older than me.

and that we were due on the same day. and that when she was pregnant and i found out, i knew that ours was on the way soon, too. bastian's only 5 months older than samil. and even though they haven't met yet, i plan to make them friends. like us.

remember indiana beach? getting gum spit in my hair at the county fair? (i.miss.him) summer in the condo in oswego? being so close in chicago and never seeing each other? the family reunion trip to the shore when we were so little and wanted to make musicvideos to the oldies? swimming at aunt mares? going to the movies with dewey and her coupons? prickhead? (again.) enchanted castle? walking to enchanted castle? the moose with your parents?

i hope we get to see each other soon. damn gas prices are killing me.
happy birthday, jenney. we.love.you.

dominicans and baseball...

for all the hubbub about the new exhibit at the local museum chronicling baseball in the dominican...

i was not impressed.

the centro leon museum is great. really. i like to go and look at the same two exhibits. because they're interesting. i like to take my laptop and use the wi-fi in the cafeteria. or take a book and hang out in the outdoor cafe.

but the baseball thing?
not so much. i'm glad that next month they're putting in a new exhibit.

italian?

i'm currently trying to read about an italian NGO that works in salcedo, about 45 minutes from here.

i want to go on a coffee tour/hiking trip. but the page is all in italian. it's got links for english and spanish, but yah, no such luck. they're not working.

there's a lot going on in the country right now as far as eco-tourism, its just frustrating that the tourism seems to be all for, well, foreign tourists.

in the same vein...

and while i'm on it about kids clothes...

i know that 5 year olds like to choose their own clothes. it's an independence thing. but when you see that your little girl's boobies are showing, make her change her shirt.

this little girl came today with a tanktop that had the straps so stretched out that it kept falling down in the front. she got embarassed everytime i fixed her, but really? in a class full of boys what was i supposed to do?

bratz.

i HATE the bratz dolls.

ridiculous.

i had a 5 year old come to class yesterday in some platform shoes, flared pants and half of a halter top. that's right half of it. it was obviously cut to be short. -er, shorter than it should be.

and if that's not enough, she had on blue eyeshadow and lip gloss.
i was surprised.

until i met her mom, who was wearing almost the same outfit when she came to pick her daughter up.

sleep.

samil's been having some crazy nights lately. his top top popped through about 2 weeks ago, but since he's been waking up two or three times a night. i try to let him cry it out, but we have to be considerate to the neighbors, too. the last thing i need is neighbors yelling at me because they didn't sleep.
especially because i'm kind of mean about other people letting their babies cry and cry and cry.
anyway. along with his crazy waking up patterns, he's got a new favorite sleeping position that makes me laugh. he's crazy to get out of the crib and loves climbing on the bumpers - unfortunatley we can take the bumpers off because of the crazy new sleeping position. he got his little legs stuck in between the bars on more than one occasion when we took the bumper off.
we're going to have to figure something out though, becuase in his fighting of the nap today, he got himself stuck between the bumper and bars. silly boy.