It was a full day. Aunt Beth and Uncle Steve are visiting this week from the frigid land of the midwest. They brought along a Chinese exchange student named Avery that is living with them for a while and checking out colleges. Trevor took to her right away and they spent all afternoon building legos and playing Geotrax in the playroom.

I told the boys that company was coming this morning. Steve was going shooting with Bill and we were expecting Beth and Avery to show up at the house. The conversation went like this:

Me: “Boys, Aunt Beth will be here any moment.”
Trevor: “What is an Aunt Beth?”
Me: “Beth is Daddy’s sister.”
Trevor: “Oh! She is my sister too!”
Me: “No, She is your aunt.”
Trevor: “No! We don’t have any ants! The bug guy was just here!”
(the bug guy WAS just here on Friday)

How do you explain this difference between “ant” and “aunt” to a 3yr old?

We were all tired tonight, but the weather was so nice. We decided to take the boys out for dinner to a real restaurant. We picked the Old Spaghetti Factory.

The boys sat in their own fancy chairs. Their behavior was stellar. I was very proud of them.
Trevor gobbled his spaghetti and meatball kids’ meal.

I brought pretzels for Brendan although he did eat some noodles.

All the boys were on their best behavior 🙂

We had to wait 30 minutes for a table but they boys got to run all around the courtyard outside. It was dark when we left.

Trevor fell asleep in the car on the way home! He was so asleep that I was able to diaper him and get him in to his footie jammies without waking him up! I poured him into his bed at 7:45.
Brendan at least got his bath and stuff before he went down too.