Maryellen
and I met in 2005 when we worked at the same school. I was the speech therapist and she was the resource teacher, so we had lots and lots of meetings together. We have lived in the same city for the past 3 years and were geographically close, but not super close. Well, she and her husband, John, moved recently. Now, there are 3 street lights separating us, but 2 of them are right turns on the way there. If you make the non-turn light you can get from our house to theirs in 3 minutes. Sweet.
They came over for dinner on Saturday to help us celebrate Elliott's Half Birthday in style.
Maryellen and I look like friends. One of us happens to have a baby.
Michael and John look like My 2 Dads. They either adopted or used a surrogate.
After appetizers, dinner, laughter and good times, it was time for cake.
I took this bad boy,
and turned it into this bad boy.
Half a cake for half a birthday.
Elliott's thinking, "Geez. Again with the fire. Did you not learn last time"?
"What? Oh, this fire is for me"?
"Well alright then".
John and Maryellen were so kind and brought a gift. Elliott's own parents didn't even get him a gift. We did throw him a party though.
Elliott's still working on his fine motor skills, so Spencer helped out.
So cute!
I mentioned before that I made lasagna for dinner. I used my Polish Pottery poppy garden large baking dish with handles.
Then this shit happened.
I was washing it and it bumped the side of the sink and fell about 1/4 of an inch.
Busted into pieces.
I paid, at the most, $30 for this when I bought it in Germany in 2006. I looked online for a replacement.
$160
Hot damn.
By the way, Elliott had his 6 month check up today. 15 pounds 12.5 ounces. It puts him IN the 25th percentile. He's in the 30th for length and head.
Another hot damn!
3 comments:
So sad about the dish! Happy 1/2 BDay to Elliott!
You can TOTALLY Gorilla glue that thing back together!
Also, 25th%?! AWESOME!
Happy Half-Birthday Elliott and Congratulations on being 3/4 of the way done with parenting an infant! (1st year accomplished with Spencer + 1st 6 months with Elliott = 3/4 of the way done with infancy. I checked the numbers.. twice.) :)
That picture of Elliott with the candle is absolutely hilarious! I can't wait to see what you do for his birthday.
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