Is there meat in that?September 21st, 2007 @ 5:01 am
We found out a few days ago that Babboo is a vegetarian. Not only is he vegetarian, but he’s pert near a vegan.
I feel bad about all the deli meat I fed him for dinner this week. And what about the chicken mixed in with his stir fry last night. Not to mention the amount of cheese he ate with his crackers.
Earlier this week we received an e-mail survey from the Parents
Association of his school. They wanted to know how the we felt about incorporating meat and cheese into the school’s current “loosely vegetarian” menu.
How do I feel, you ask? How do I feel? I feel like a tool for not knowing my kid didn’t eat meat. Or cheese for that matter. I guess I should have actually looked at the lunch menu that is posted outside his classroom door.
Oopsie. My bad.
I responded and told them that I was all for Babboo eating more meat. I’m all for some cheese slices with his tofu burrito. Because um yeah, I didn’t know he was a vegetarian.
We also got an e-mail about the guy that comes in every week to do singing time with the kids. Let’s call him Nick, The Singing Guy. Apparently the Parent’s Association would like to give Nick a five dollar raise, due to “parking cost increases and cost to maintain his instruments” (which almost sounds dirty).
Five dollars doesn’t sound like that outrageous of a raise for the guy. Except that, according to the e-mail, this guy already makes forty dollars an hour. Do the math. Nick would be making forty five dollars an hour!
Holy crap, I’m in the wrong business.
I’ve never seen Nick The Music Guy. I don’t know exactly what he does. I don’t anything about him. I just hear that Babboo loves him. Apparently Babboo dances while Nick sings and plays his guitar. Not only is Babboo a fan of Nick, but Nick is a fan of Babboo. Or so his teachers tell me.
So while I’m happy that Babboo likes Music Time with Nick, I’m thinking that if the parking prices of downtown Seattle are too much for him the dude should look into a bus pass. Heck, he can even borrow mine.
I just know it, tuition prices are going up. Apparently music ain’t free.
And neither is meat and dairy.
City Living · My Sweet Babboo
Anna
said,
September 21, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Pert Near?! I think I’m a little more in love with you this morning. For some reason I thought this was only a rural Minnesota expression used by grandpas. And my husband.
Operation Pink Herring
said,
September 21, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Who knew, Babboo is a hippie! I have to go dust off my old clarinet now, because DUDE, I want $40 an hour.
Laurel
said,
September 21, 2007 at 2:23 pm
If $40 an hour is what playing for preschoolers pays, I’m in! I can bang the bongos!
Rachel
said,
September 21, 2007 at 4:20 pm
$45 an hour!! I will sing and dance for $45 and hour! Not well or anything, but still.
Abbie
said,
September 21, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Children these days, couldn’t Bamboo have told you himself he was a vegan instead of accommodating you and not wanting to hurt your feelings?
Ashlie
said,
September 21, 2007 at 4:54 pm
“Isabel the Music Mom” has a nice ring to it! Tune up those spoons and go forth to conquer the preschool music realm!
Is Babboo going to go to a private school for k-12? I know that we are completely screwed in Baltimore. The public schools are HORRIBLE. Husby teaches in a private school but we would still have to pay $8,000 a year just to send our (hypothetical) child there! Even the pre-school would be $6000. Thats after a 50% teacher discount!
Just one more factor why its freakin hard to raise a child today. Bah to being an adult!
Audrey
said,
September 21, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Please tell me this means that you’ll make a special vegetarian t-shirt for Babboo so he can share his hippie values with the world.
I wish I made $45/hour. That would really help with the whole “to do before I die” list that you got me thinking about!
HollowSquirrel
said,
September 21, 2007 at 5:22 pm
$45/hour. Are you kidding me? You must be. I busted out my flute last night to play for Jojo, and he loved it. Perhaps I’ll slip a bill in his crib for the performance.
Molly
said,
September 21, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Gotta love the baby music guy making $45 per hour. I guess HE got into the right profession. (Who knew?)
I have a near-vegetarian toddler as well, but by his own choice. He always gobbles the vegetables and tosses the meat to the dog. Last night he ate green beans and an ungodly amount of cottage cheese for dinner. Whaddya gonna do?
Art Nerd
said,
September 21, 2007 at 6:21 pm
“maintaining his instruments” doesn’t almost sound dirty- it sounds very dirrrty!
another favorite phrase from this entry- “loosely vegetarian”. EW!
Christar
said,
September 21, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Daaaaammmmn. $45 an hour?! Shaun’s a musician… I’m totally telling him he needs to start playing music for kids at a preschool and make some killer cash. That’s insane!
I think that’s kind of weird they haven’t fed kids meat. We’ve been trying to get Zach to eat meat forever. He’s the pickest eater ever. Seriously. The ONLY meat he’ll eat is chicken nuggets. That’s it. Oh, and he doesn’t eat potatos…. or veggies. Except corn. There’s much more I could tell you, but the list of what he DOES eat would be shorter than what he doesn’t.
Midwest Texan
said,
September 21, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Man, I knew I should have stayed with the bassoon. Kids would have gotten a kick out of that, and I could have made good money (much more than I make with the nonprofit!)
The local “star” with the 3-and-under crowd in St. Louis is called Babaloo, and in the second to last paragraph, I thought you were talking about him when you said Babboo, even though I knew you meant your Babboo!
Kiraa
said,
September 21, 2007 at 10:05 pm
I don’t think Singing Nick needs a raise. I think Singing Nick should be happy Singing Nick makes so much gosh darn money.
And I love you for saying pert near. It warms my Texan heart.
May
said,
September 21, 2007 at 11:25 pm
So I guess this esplains the Boca Burger with BBQ sauce you found Babboo eating that one time… That crazy school! Do you think Nick The Music Guy uses casually drops his vocation into the conversation to impress the ladies? (I’d do him).
xo
Lindsey
said,
September 22, 2007 at 2:59 am
Kids are making all of these life/food choices at such a young age now. Why don’t you get him a little t-shirt that reads “Meat is Murder” and have him wear it to school.
meritt
said,
September 22, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I’m thinking perhaps I should dust off my flute and go into a new business visiting the daycare’s for an hour each and making $1000 a day.
moosh in indy.
said,
September 23, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I do this every week at church and make squat. Geesh.
That’s some fancy skewlin there Isabel.
angela
said,
September 24, 2007 at 2:45 am
Dude, Babboo is so trendy and you didn’t even know it. Toddlers these days.