Saturday, June 23, 2007

... Ollie, mom and dad date...

Aunt Jo surprised us on thursday with a set of tickets to STOMP...

Jo watched max for us so we could go on a special ollie date. I love being able to do things with both kids, but every once in awhile, I think it is really special to get your parents all to yourself.

B came home from work we made a quick dinner and than loaded the bean into the car... Ollie looked so cute in bermuda shorts and a little white button up shirt. I did'nt really get any pics. I think Ollie was really grateful for the break from Max. He has taken to trying to get my complete and undivided attention; this is usually done with flailing his arms as close to my face as possible, and if I look away from where he wants me to look, I get the flailing arm again. It is pretty funny but hard when I am doing things like feeding max, or talking on the phone.

We parked the car, and had a short walk to the keller auditorium. Ollie took the oppurtunity to get in as many swings as possible and if we stopped with the 1...2....3333333 swing, he would lift his feet up in protest, so half the time he was being carried between me and B each holding a hand. We got into the venue and ollie was thrilled that all these people were here for him to talk to, and follow around, plus all the lovely benches that were them for him to climb on. Of course as usual, we were on meier time, so we had to wait for late seating and had about 10 minutes to kill in the lobby, which for a 2 year old is like a year.

We got great seats though, right on the aisle in the backrow... We had two old cranky people in front of us, that did'nt seem to enjoy ollies wiggles as much as we did. I did get to spend some lovely time in the women's rest room lobby, which by the way is very nice. To my surprise while hangin in the bathroom, Ollie shocked me by pointing to a red square in the carpet and saying "wed" I started to quiz him and the kid knows his colors... I don't know how that happened, I am bad and have not really worked with him much... hmmmm he is a genius!..haaa

Me and B took turns in and out of the theatre with the bean. He got into the loud parts when everyone was beating on something, but the quieter parts were not his thing. We had to rescue the rest of the audience from his shrill screams when he could'nt understand that the aisle down the theatre was not there for him to run along. By the time we left I think we were all exhausted, but it was so great to get out, and I would'nt change a thing about the evening. Maybe a two year old is not the best date to take to a show, but he did awesome, and B and I are super stoked that this is what we get to expose our kids too... Maybe Ollie will be an awesome drummer, B is trying really hard to make that happen, the kid does have rhythym that is for sure...

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