Today is Aaron's birthday :)
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altarflameAaron, 8 years old!
We'll be celebrating tomorrow, because Grant works today, but we're still making sure to do our normal "meeting Daddy for lunch" Saturday thing at a place that will sing to him and bring him cake (usually we go to this little privately owned subshop that will make all the kids grilled cheese on whole wheat for like $2 each, every week). He does not know this, but I am also planning to give him one gift at lunch - MOON SHOES we found clearanced at TJ Maxx! So perfect for Aaron, neither of us even knew they still MADE those. And, he's picked dinner...my homemade tomato sauce, seasoned up chicken and mozzarella on linguini, but with shrimp on the side special, and sparkling red grape juice. And homemade brownies with vanilla ice cream on top for dessert. He also chose that we'd all come home during Annie's dance classes and watch Bolt, which is how I came to be sitting at the computer.
His celebrating tomorrow mainly constitutes cake and presents, probably with an aunt and some grandparents, and going to Speed Demons (go carts and arcade). He elected not to have a party, which I am kind of relieved by because we're still riding the wave from Elise and Annie having these kind of big, hoopla parties that lasted hours and had the house full of people. That is not really Aaron's kind of thing anyway, I guess.
Most exciting - we bought him the unicycle he's been begging for for the last 3 months. It's locked in the shed right now :D
Aside from the birthday, Aaron has decided he wants to dance. I feel somewhat dubious about this, just like I felt downright ambivalent when Ananda decided she had to do it back when she was, like, BORN. We'd been planning to get him back into karate, half because it seems ideal for helping him get some focus and self control and half because it's free since Grant traded them a website. Dance, as we have seen in previous posts, is NOT FREE.
Basically he's been trying to breakdance and doing cartwheels and attempting flips and things a lot for awhile. Then at their end of the week VBS show, their age group had a dance and he went wild, like, really getting into it and having all this rhythm and enthusiasm Grant and I were WAY taken aback by, it was kind of awesome. It's like he naturally has the one thing Annie just can't seem to be taught, which is...I don't know...feeling the music and throwing yourself into it, I guess. She does that with her own dancing here at home that is just wild and interpretive, but when she has steps to follow you can always see her concentrating on the memorization part.
He wants to take hip hop dancing and acrobatics at Dance Empire and they have those things for him during her time slots so it isn't any extra driving, and are willing to wave his registration fees and give us a steep discount since it's the second kid in the family (and the first kid is taking FIVE classes right now). Plus he doesn't need any special clothes or shoes for his classes. So, he's dancing now. We'll see what comes of it...
I have my suspicions that he will rapidly become wildly popular and the star of their shows, because boys tend to get starring roles easily since there is so much less competition...I saw 200 girls and 5 boys at the recital this year. You see those 5 boys over and over, in couples dancing, in the center of big choreographed things, etc...even the ones who aren't good at all. And come to think of it he was sitting with us at that recital and I wonder how much that plays in. As adorably handsome and genuinely talented at anything involving movement and balance as he is, I have a feeling he's not going to want to let go of this anytime soon...I'm actually wondering how long it will be until he comes home and tells me he has 7 girlfriends, like Hugh Hefner, and I have to have a long talk about feelings and consideration with him :p
We'll be celebrating tomorrow, because Grant works today, but we're still making sure to do our normal "meeting Daddy for lunch" Saturday thing at a place that will sing to him and bring him cake (usually we go to this little privately owned subshop that will make all the kids grilled cheese on whole wheat for like $2 each, every week). He does not know this, but I am also planning to give him one gift at lunch - MOON SHOES we found clearanced at TJ Maxx! So perfect for Aaron, neither of us even knew they still MADE those. And, he's picked dinner...my homemade tomato sauce, seasoned up chicken and mozzarella on linguini, but with shrimp on the side special, and sparkling red grape juice. And homemade brownies with vanilla ice cream on top for dessert. He also chose that we'd all come home during Annie's dance classes and watch Bolt, which is how I came to be sitting at the computer.
His celebrating tomorrow mainly constitutes cake and presents, probably with an aunt and some grandparents, and going to Speed Demons (go carts and arcade). He elected not to have a party, which I am kind of relieved by because we're still riding the wave from Elise and Annie having these kind of big, hoopla parties that lasted hours and had the house full of people. That is not really Aaron's kind of thing anyway, I guess.
Most exciting - we bought him the unicycle he's been begging for for the last 3 months. It's locked in the shed right now :D
Aside from the birthday, Aaron has decided he wants to dance. I feel somewhat dubious about this, just like I felt downright ambivalent when Ananda decided she had to do it back when she was, like, BORN. We'd been planning to get him back into karate, half because it seems ideal for helping him get some focus and self control and half because it's free since Grant traded them a website. Dance, as we have seen in previous posts, is NOT FREE.
Basically he's been trying to breakdance and doing cartwheels and attempting flips and things a lot for awhile. Then at their end of the week VBS show, their age group had a dance and he went wild, like, really getting into it and having all this rhythm and enthusiasm Grant and I were WAY taken aback by, it was kind of awesome. It's like he naturally has the one thing Annie just can't seem to be taught, which is...I don't know...feeling the music and throwing yourself into it, I guess. She does that with her own dancing here at home that is just wild and interpretive, but when she has steps to follow you can always see her concentrating on the memorization part.
He wants to take hip hop dancing and acrobatics at Dance Empire and they have those things for him during her time slots so it isn't any extra driving, and are willing to wave his registration fees and give us a steep discount since it's the second kid in the family (and the first kid is taking FIVE classes right now). Plus he doesn't need any special clothes or shoes for his classes. So, he's dancing now. We'll see what comes of it...
I have my suspicions that he will rapidly become wildly popular and the star of their shows, because boys tend to get starring roles easily since there is so much less competition...I saw 200 girls and 5 boys at the recital this year. You see those 5 boys over and over, in couples dancing, in the center of big choreographed things, etc...even the ones who aren't good at all. And come to think of it he was sitting with us at that recital and I wonder how much that plays in. As adorably handsome and genuinely talented at anything involving movement and balance as he is, I have a feeling he's not going to want to let go of this anytime soon...I'm actually wondering how long it will be until he comes home and tells me he has 7 girlfriends, like Hugh Hefner, and I have to have a long talk about feelings and consideration with him :p
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Date: 2009-06-27 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 04:24 pm (UTC)That is so freaking wonderful.
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Date: 2009-06-30 05:19 am (UTC)He's a star. Joo know this.
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Date: 2009-07-01 11:06 pm (UTC)Unicycles are awesome. That's cool he's picking up on it so quickly.