Halloween Preview

Guess who is who.

They won't even watch Star Wars or Spiderman because the movies are too scary.

Left out

Due to the boys' poor behavior the boys are now in separate classrooms. I was really hoping to not to have to deal with it until Kindergarten, but I agree they have to be in separate classrooms. Unfortunately, the preschool they are at only has one pre-K program so one child is "repeating" the class he did last year. Not ideal, but we couldn't find any other options at other centers. Placing 2 in 2 classrooms for pre-K is very hard to do especially this late in the year.

With separate classrooms, the inequality begins. Poor AJ, today PJ was able to participate in a child's birthday party at school and ate cupcakes. He of course asked if his brother could have one and his request was denied. In the car ride home, AJ was very upset when he found out about this. To make his brother feel better PJ told AJ that next time that there was a party he was not going to eat anything unless his brother gets some. He said he was going to tell his friends to do the same. Then when PJ got home he emptied both his lunch box and AJ's. He thought it would make AJ feel better.

Meat is still Murder

From my vegetarian P:
"Pigs eat mud and poop. If you eat a pig then you are eating mud and poop."

Neither boy would eat their burger last night because it came from a cow. I had to convince them that eggs were not dead chicks for them to eat their breakfast. They are now horrified that people wear dead animal skin (leather).

Good things that I subscribe to Vegetarian Times. Now I must look for some vegan kid friendly recipes.

Meat is Murder

On the way home from school today we started talking about the food we eat. I think it started with the boys asking me if I liked to eat crab legs. I said I did like to eat crab legs. They wondered what happened to the crab once you cut off its legs. I told them that the crab is dead and then you eat the crab legs. Then that lead to who kills the crab and I told them people kill animals for you to eat. That got the boys thinking and P wondered if the chicken he ate was chicken from the farm. I told him yes it was and then he started to bawl that killing is wrong and was just horrified that he had been eating dead animals. He told me that he is never ever eating animals again. AJ wondered what steak was from so I told him it came from cows. PJ just kept crying and saying he didn't want us to talk about it anymore. After that talk I took them to the garden store to buy new veggies for our garden.

3 Day Weekend Bliss

After a tough week of training in DC and even a FDA meeting teleconference I was very happy to have a 3 day weekend. Since Tim was heading with his buddies to LA to watch the UCLA/ SDSU game. I took advantage of this opportunity to invite my mommy friends over for a swim play date. We had a great time with 15 children and 7 mommies enjoying the great weather and reconnecting. It was fun to see how big our babies have gotten. In the evening the fun didn't stop and we had Dina and Jessica with their kiddos come over for more swimming and dinner. It was so much fun for us! I also had no problem getting the boys to go to bed that night.

On Sunday we headed to the beach and enjoyed the almost 75 degree ocean. Both boys were really enjoying riding boogie boards. PJ even caught a wave himself and rode it all the way it. I think I am definitely going to have some beach bums on my hands. I got to get away for a little while and swam out past the breakers with Jessica. It was so beautiful and peaceful with the sun setting. I love summers in San Diego.