The Birthday Plan

Well Rooney has recovered nicely from his illness. It seemed like he was really only sick 2 days. I kept him home for almost a week other than visiting his friend Parker (who was sick previously). Last week was a hard week because Rooney had to be so homebound. I am kind of thankful that Parker was sick (sorry to say that Krista) because it was nice to be able to escape someplace & know it was safe. I've come to this conclusion several times since living in this house, but when we were home all week I realized this house is just way too small. I found myself perusing the real estate listings when Rooney slept.

Other than Rooney being sick a few other things have been going on. I've been talking about signing Rooney up for Kindermusik for quite a while. Well we finally did it. Mike is still skeptical that it is worth the cost, but I've heard nothing but good things about this program and we both know if sports were involved there would be alot less skepticism and complaints about cost. Rooney and I had our first class today and we had a good time. The teacher, Mrs. Lauren, has a beautiful singing voice and Rooney would just stop and watch her when she was singing. You'd think he never heard good singing before. Which is surprising because I sing to him all the time. Anyway we got to move alot, sing and play with instruments plus Rooney got to hang out with Parker and those two seem to love being together.

Mike and I have also been planning Rooney's birthday. We kind of hemmed and hawed about what to do for his 1st birthday. I really felt I wanted a party for him, although the trend these days seems to be not to make a fuss. However, since Rooney is my 1st child and it's his 1st birthday, I decided I wanted to make a fuss...so we are going to have 2 parties. Now I know that sounds excessive but it's really only because our house is so small. We decided to have family over to our house on Saturday for some food & cake and then have a kid's party at Kindermusik on Sunday afternoon.

I was a little stressed over what to get Roonster for his birthday. He has alot of toys, but I love getting him toys. He could use clothes and pj's, but from his parents, that is not a very memorable gift. I decided to get him one toy that could be somewhat memorable & a few things to wear. So I hunted for the toy. I found this really cool doggy pull toy. I was pretty jazzed about it and couldn't wait to give it to Rooney. Here's a picture of the toy: I should have looked at the dimensions I guess, but from the price and how the toy looked in the picture I thought it was normal sized. However I was surprised when I opened the toy and it looked like a Christmas ornament! I decided to send it back and thankfully found him a comparable toy. So the party is planned, Rooney's gifts have been purchased and now I just have to get a cake. I really hope sugar isn't going to be an issue.