Thursday was a big day for the Allen family. Austin graduated from 3-year-old pre-school. It was a bit of a touching time. To know he has his first year of school under his belt. He is such a good boy and a smart boy. I know I am biased, but please let me have my moment.

 As a special treat, Mandy and I told Austin we were going to take him out to lunch. We let him pick where he wanted to go. We expected him to name one of the fast food haunts he loves to visit for cheeseburgers. He honestly loves them a lot. I envision him becoming Wimpy from Popeye if we don't do something soon.

 However, to our surprise our son said he wanted to go to his favorite Chinese restaurant. This took us a little by surprise, but hey, why not. I like Garlic Chicken as much as the next guy.

 So we go. It was an adventure. First off, Austin got out of her chair about every three minutes to walk around our portion of the restaurant for no reason whatsoever. Just got up to walk around. In the meantime, we started feeding Cameron little pieces of steamed rice. Remember that part of the story.

 So Austin continues walking around the restaurant until Mandy gives him her patented "evil eye", then he sat down. For a minute. Then he walked over to Cameron and tried to give him a sip of 7 Up. We explained Cameron can't have 7 Up yet (he's 10 months old). So Austin sits down. In the meantime, I am amazed at how much rice Cameron is eating. So I give him some more.

 In the meantime, Austin leaves our section of the restaurant to go look at a fish tank in the lobby. I go and get him and bring him back to our table. I sit down and notice Cameron again needs more rice. I comment to Mandy how much he likes rice. Mandy is too busy asking Austin why he's trying to place a plate of food on a window sill near our table. I got up again, explained to him that he had to come sit down and eat. I turned around and saw MOUNT FUJI in rice underneath Cameron's chair. It literally looked like we took a bag of rice and dumped it on the floor. I was mortified. Mandy tells me "oh you should see what he does at home", leading me to remind her we weren't at home, we're in public and our son has made a huge mess. All the time, Cameron is smiling and showing off his two new teeth.

 Ah, the joys.

 Quote Of The Rice: "No use crying over spilt rice". A quote I just made up to sum up our day.

 This Day In History: David Berkowitz,. aka The Son Of Sam, plead guilty to murdering six people in New York City on this date, May 8th, 1978.

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