HELP :)

Before Mimi left us after her two weeks taking care of us, Bahs was concern about who was going to take care of me and I think he meant all of us ....Joe and him included. He has been a really big help around the house..loading and unloading the dishwasher, pulling the laundry out of the dryer and even draging the hamper around for me. Sometimes he sems a little worried about my ability to do some things...like My first time to Publix, grocery shopping, ...before we got out of the car he asked who was going to help us....(I managed to get the store manager to help us around the store which Bash found really cool as ge pointed to what he wanted to buy) but his concern is understandable because I haven't been capable of a lot the last few months....he asks me how we will get to Mimi and Papi's this summer because I won't be able to help him onto the plane. Which is sooo not true but hell...I haven't been much help but everyday I am sooooooo much better.

I do have to say, though, I almost started crying when he pulled out his wallet on the way to the back doctor (which I didn't know he grabbed on the way out the door) on Wed. and said "Mommy how much does it cost for the doctor?" I said to him from the front seat as I was driving..." I think it is only $10 for the c0-pay" And he said ..."oh...that's good because I have ten dollars so I can pay for your doctor so don't worry about that." "and I have enough for the toy store."

I love that kid.

Nothing and more nothing...

Guess what Sebastien and I did this morning? yep.....nothing. We didn't get out of our PJ's until after we ate some lunch.
Perfect way to start the summer of 2008.
We deserved every minute of it.

THE GREAT ONE

Yesterday , The Great One...great-grandma Ann...my grandma.....Ann Koeber.. passed away. It never really matters if you knew the time was coming or that she lived a full life or if she was 87. You still are stunned for a few moments and realize that she won't be back, we won't see her again, and holidays won't ever be the same without her saying Grace before the meal. She was a tough old bird and she had different relationships with everyone. I was lucky to have had her in my life as long as I did. She was a part of my family's life....she was at my wedding, got close with my husband and she loved Sebastien.
I am sadder for Sebastien than for myself. He loved her....he thought she was funny and he came up with the name, The Great One. That was because grandma, being the oldest, he thought she was the boss of all of us. He bought her this HUGE (about 12 inches long) pink pen for Christmas last year so she could write big words so she could see better. He loved to climb the tree at her house and "ride" on the lazy boy chair that went up and down. Sebastien is five...we don't know if he understands for sure that she is in a better place but he says great grandma is in Heaven.
I love family, I love traditions, I loved my grandma and she will be very , very missed.

Last Day of Preschool

Wow...it is weird how sad I was the last day of preschool yesterday. It was the last day of walking Bash down the mile long hallway to his classroom (which two weeks out of back surgery is an Olympic event for me), last day with a lot of great mom friends who might not be there next year, and the whole simpleness of it all. It was preschool (which at a Catholic school seems like 1st grade), if we didn't go to school one morning, it didn't really matter, if we took a few extra days off after a holiday...it didn't really matter. He glued things, started to learn to read, counts to 100 and more and by five's and tens, knows more about bears, lizards, and the entire life cycle of a butterfly plus the difference between them and moths.....he has grown so much. I can't stop looking through his work that he did all year...piles of it all came home the last week.

Bash keeps telling me it is only 60 days until Kindergarten and he can't wait. He wants to be dropped off at the front and stay 7 hours at school. (I think that story will change after week one) I don't want attendance to really count! The summer started last night and Joe and I let him stay up late and celebrate it. I am not going to want this summer to end. I love traditions, milestones and all that stuff but isn't five to young for 7 hours at school :(
I am sure most parents go through this but Sebastien is my only one and I don't get to relive it with another.

By the way, Trisha....we had one awesome end of the year party yesterday! It was insane and at one point I counted about 60 people! But the kids had a ball and I am glad we got to do it together...although you had to do all the labor!

On To Better Things...

Well...I normally try to just keep this blog about things that go on with Sebastien but we all have been put through the ringer the last two weeks. Good news is that my back surgery was successful as of today. It has been two weeks and Mimi just left this morning and I braved driving Bash to school. These last two weeks.. Mimi became Florence Nightingale, Sebastien learned to be careful around me and became good at getting what he wanted from Mimi, Joe survived chaos, and I got recovered!
I thank God for all my friends who drove Bash back and forth to school, Trisha for everything...including organizing dinners (all the friends who brought dinner), taking Bash and mimi to the doctor , the list goes on and on....Patty, we won't even write about what i am thankful for you for :)

Anyhoo-
enough of that, Bash has three days left of school and we can't wait to start hitting the beach and pool as soon as I am up to it!

Islands Of Adventure

We went to Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios last weekend. The last hurrah before my back surgery and the end of school. I use to love only Disney World but we have become experts on IOA and US this year. The rides are all awesome and the hotels are great, especially because you get on all the rides first with your room key. If we have to wait more than ten minutes, it would be a shock to us.
Bash had a ball. Once again we did breakfast with Spiderman and The Cat in the Hat and got a ton of great pictures. He got an anchor tattoo...highlight of hanging by the pool in the afternoons.
This summer probably won't be the "summer of fun" between my back and Joe's work so it was nice to get away when we did.

One small note because in ten years I won't remember this unless I write it down........not that it is a proud moment (a little funny...yes) but this weekend in school Sebastien and Nicholas were arguing so Bash went up to the teacher and was telling on Nicholas and then he said to his teacher, loudly, that " Nicholas is a jackass!" Yep....I know it is not funny so he did get into trouble and then I laughed like hell behind closed doors. I can't even imagine who he learned that from??? :)