Who hasn’t passed out after drinking too much?

Murdock and Falco had big news to share within a day or two of each other. Murdock got his first tooth, and Falco lost his first baby tooth. Both events came after much anticipation, and I think both boys were relieved after their gain or loss.

This brings me to another issue: The Tooth Fairy. We’ve told Falco all along that Santa, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy, etc. were just pretend. I didn’t feel comfortable lying to him about these characters since I do my best to be honest with him at all times. This seemed all well and good until recently. Now that he’s older, if I tell other moms we’re not playing along with the charade, they look at me like I’ve betrayed them.

I didn’t really consider the possibility of Falco spoiling holidays and dental events for his friends. I have told him that other kids think the stories are true and not to ruin it for them, and he seems on board with that. If he lets the cat out of the bag though, I may need to go into a witness protection program to avoid other parents’ wrath. Matt and I really didn’t mean to break an unwritten rule of parenting, but there’s no turning back now.

We took da boyz out trick or treating, and a good time was had by all (until Matt started freezing). Murdock fell asleep around 6:30 while Falco begged for candy for another half hour or so. It was really fun to see how excited Falco was this year, and dressing up a baby is always a good time.

When you truly have no pride left, you are ready to snuggle into a “Forever Lazy”. I especially like the zippered back hatch since you must be too lazy to remove your blanket suit to use the toilet. I wonder if these are all sold as gag gifts or if someone has come along and said,”Zippered back hatch!? Just what my Slanket was missing!”

We started solids. He’s into it.

Today is Falco’s first day of kindergarten! I can’t describe the amount of agonizing we (I) did about whether to send him to another year of preschool or kindergarten, but we finally, at the very last minute, decided to send him to big kid school. He was very excited to be there, and it was awesome to walk two blocks to school wearing Murdock instead of loading them in the car and driving across town. His school day is six hours, and I’m not sure what to do with myself (and Murdock) for that long without him!

I think “pet stains” would suffice.