The old hag from Jason's Deli story...

So I was at Jason's Deli last week with two friends and six kids.  (Jack and Ellee and some friends.)  This is what happened...   We ate our lunch and had ice cream cones.   Everyone is behaving just fine.  Jack didnt' like the way I cut up his hot dog but other than that, everyone is happy.  We are eating our ice cream cones and wrapping things up.... I'm relaxing a little and talking to Kelley Jo and Clare.  Jack and his two friends were in the booth and Ellee was sitting by me.   She gets down and takes her ice cream cone over to sit by her brother.  They are laughing and making a few loud noises but basically just being happy kids.  She runs over to me, I wipe her face off, she runs back over to her brother.

This is when the horrible mean hag sitting behind us says "Who's child is that?"  I look over at her.  "You need to CONTROL your child!"
"Are you serious?" I ask
"YES! We're trying to eat lunch!!!  They're being rude! You need to control her."
"The baby?  Are you talking about this baby here?" I say pointing to my 21 month old child.
"Yes!  You need to stick a pacifier in her mouth or something. We're trying to eat lunch."    by the way, all of this is said in the utmost sneer of a voice.
I turn around and am fuming, trying to figure out what to do when she continues on...
"I PITY the kindergarten teacher who has that child in school... and I used to be a teacher!"
"So did I!" I say
"And this is the kind of child you're raising?"
"YES!"  In hindsight I would've said... "Yes a JOYFUL one."
"I raised four boys and they NEVER acted like this."
(Oh really?? I say in my head.)
"In Blue Springs kids don't act like this."
"Whatever." I say
Then Kelley Jo chimes in and says "Why don't you just go on back to Blue Springs b/c here in Lees Summit we're all nice and we LIKE kids."

I turn around and say "I have NEVER had anyone say anything to me about my childrens behavior before today..."
"Why don't you go to McDonalds!" she says
"THIS BASICALLY IS MCDONALDS" I say back.

Then I go pick up Ellee and take her to the bathroom, change her diaper. I am fuming...  no... I am FUMING mad!!!!! I dont know what to do... so I finally go over to the manager and basically start crying and told him how this woman is basically verbally assaulting me.  He reassured me that he hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary from us and that this was a kid friendly restaraunt and he was very sorry.    Then 5 minutes later we were leaving and he comes over to give me 5 free lunch passes for the kids and says he hopes we will return and re-instates again that they are a pro-kid restaraunt.  Mean lady comes over while he's talking to me to say "I just want to tell you that she wasn't controlling her child.  I am very disappointed in this restaraunt. It came highly recommended.  I had no idea this was this kind of establishment. "  He basically told her that it was that kind of establishment.  One that is ok with normal kids. so HA!  I left and spent the next 4 hours trying to get over it.  What a sad sad life this woman has b/c although she only ruined a few hours of my life, she's probably ruined most of her own.





I was scarred for the rest of the day but I think I'm over it now.

The latest funnies...

Ok so I'm walking the girls home from school last week (Olivia and Libby whom we walk/carpool with) and Ellee who is in the stroller.  Jack has escaped the stroller and is running ahead of the girls.  We come round the corner and what do I see?  Oh, it's just my 3 1/2 year old son standing with his pants around his knees PEEING into our neighbors yard!  I mean... it couldn't have taken him more than 2 1/2 seconds to make that decision b/c we were literally 25 feet behind him!  I was a little embarrassed but truly... what can you do?  So I just helped him pull his pants up and asked him to tell me next time he had to go potty so we could find some shelter and avoid the neighborhood knowing what Jack's bootie looks like.

Ellee went poop on the potty the other day.  Yay!  She loves to practice and sit there naked, but this time something actually came out!  She was startled and then a little freaked out when I whooped and clapped for her.  So we went in to tell Sissy and Jack.  Both of them (in different areas of the house) said "Gimmie 5 Elle!"  and slapped her five.  I thought it was sweet how supportive and excited they both got for her.  She hasn't gone since... I think I scared her.  But seriously!  We have sat there for many minutes so I just got a little excited when something happened!

Cute Olivia story:
We were talking about how Clare is going to have a baby soon and I was wondering out loud if it would be a boy or a girl.  Olivia thinks girl.  Jack thinks boy.  Then Olivia says "Wait mom, did they have that interview thing yet?"  (she means an ultrasound)  "because if they saw a WeeWee then it's a boy!"
She just may be a doctor.  ;)

Then the other day over at Myah and Tye's house we were playing outside with their pet baby ducks.  (Which was really cute.)  Ellee was playing around when she caught sight of Alpine (the Cooley's big fluffy white dog.)  "Momma  Momma...."  she says running over to me with her arms outstretched.  "Beaw"  (bear)    I picked her up and said... "No sweetie, that's not a bear, thats a big dog."  "No, Beaw" Ellee says.  "Sssawed" (scared)  she says crossing her arms like she's shivering in fear.  It was extremely cute.

Today at Paradise Park Jack helped Ellee climb up all the way to the top of these steps that lead to a giant tornado slide.  He had to help her put her foot in the net and then push her bootie up every time there was a landing that was too high for her.  It was so sweet b/c he was saying "Come this way Elle!" and they were both laughing and just having so much fun together.  I remember Olivia teaching Jack to climb up the same thing when she was 5 and he was 2.  Ellee does things sooner than the others did... she's just trying so hard to keep up!   Then when it was time to go I said  "Ok Elle get your shoes on and lets go"  She ran over, grabbed her crocks, sat down and put them on and ran over to me.  This other mom was like "How old is she?"  b/c she was impressed she followed directions so well...  Plus also maybe a little because she looks like a giant baby running around since she still has no hair!     but HA! Wish that old mean hag from Jason's Deli could have seen Ellee then!