Loud Noises and Other Interesting Facts

You probably want to know what Eric is doing in this picture. We were eating dinner at Chili's tonight when he started making a certain "noise" over and over again while doing this hand gesture. When Natalie told us that Eric was pretending to be an elephant, Anthony suddenly said "YES!" Apparently, he had tried to make an elephant noise some time in the last couple of days when he was babysitting Eric. He said he had a hard time trying to make a noise that sounded like an elephant but now that Eric was trying to duplicate the noise, Anthony was rejoicing because he had taught his brother something. Maybe I should tell him that he can rejoice when he teaches his brother to read. Making loud elephant noises in a restaurant--maybe this shouldn't warrant any rejoicing, especially when a lady in the next booth comes over and asks us to make Eric stop because her party can't hear each other talk. Of course Patrick thought she was being overly sensitive, but then we're getting a little hard-of-hearing anyway from all of our kids making elephant noises and other loud sounds. ;)

Some other interesting facts about today are listed below:

--We dropped Natalie off at a friend's house for a 7AM playdate. Yes, I spoke to her friend's Dad yesterday and he was the one that suggested it.

--We were all up by about 6:30AM again (for Alex's soccer game). Is it a a true "day off" when you have to get up around the same time as when you have to go to work/school?

--Alex's soccer team made the semi-finals in the soccer tournament today, but then lost to a team that wasn't as good as the one they tied with in the morning. More thoughts on Alex and soccer this week when I post about soccer tryouts scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

--Our priest is retiring after 19 years at our parish. We went to mass today at 5PM instead of yesterday because the Going Away Party was tonight right after mass. There were so many people there that it would have taken at least a half-hour or more of standing in line to get food (Patrick thinks there were around 400 people there), so we ended up eating elsewhere. Natalie got a little teary about leaving the party but the mass had been filled with "goodbye" greetings anyway.

--Anthony seems to notice mostly girls with dark hair. Patrick spotted a blonde checking out Anthony on her way back from communion but Anthony didn't notice her at all. He did, however, text a friend during dinner about a different blonde.