Finding Joy in Snarkville

Yes, I took Duke to the pool yesterday for his Mommy and Me swim lessons. I was thinking, since these classes were open to kids up to age 4 that there might be a range of ages to enjoy the water together. Alas, no. Duke, nearly 3, was the oldest in the class by about a YEAR plus. He was one of two who were walking — though the girl was really a new walker. In addition, when they were showing the babies how to sort of sit on the side, Duke was jumping into my arms and climbing his own butt right back out to do it again. SO, just as I’m about to say, screw this, I’ll get my money back and move along, the pool shocked me. The teachers invited Duke to move up to the LEVEL ONE class, which involves ME sitting by the side of the pool all nice and dry. I’m thinking this is pretty cool. Today, though Duke will not know it, I’m going to wear my suit under my clothes, just in case he refuses to go with the nice ladies (which I’m frankly doubting but it makes me feel better) — but if he digs this plan, I see poolside knitting during class in my future. Teehee.
In other news, Duke had no accidents yesterday at all. However, the biggest news is that he went to school with TWO stickers on his hands because he stayed dry all night long. Yup, you heard it here first, the boy stayed dry. He even slept a little late this morning and when I finally got him on the potty — let’s just remember the scene from League of their Own when Tom Hanks pees after a bender — yup, same thing — I thought the boy was going to overflow the potty. But all was ok.
So enough about Duke, what about me? Well, the Queen had a quietish day and doesn’t have tons to report. She is up to her eyeballs in the Sock Cruise and is about to be up to her eyeballs in the Joshilyn Jackson Fan Cruise. Do you have any other theme cruise ideas to share? No, that’s ok, I’m not scheduling another one until fall at this point.
BUT, BUT, I do have one little announcement. It seems the Prince has decided that I’ve had enough attention with my little blog adventure here and has started one of his very own. If you’d like to “meet” the snarky man I married, please click here. However, I warn you; he can be pretty funny on occasions (when he doesn’t try too hard) and you might do well to remember me . I’m just saying. (oh, and he has some awesome photos of a visitor we had in the jungle backyard last night. I don’t know when Duke will be starting his own blog — but I’m fairly sure that the animals aren’t ready to unite in theirs.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 at 8:32 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.