no mommy, ding

so i went to register the fictitious name today at the circuit court. of course i went around 11am, so the parking spaces around the court were full, full, and yes, full. that's okay though because i got to drive by where mommy and daddy got married and showed landon. we had to park in the parking garage, which was no problem for landon as it has "new ding" and "old ding." you just have to witness his excitement when he knows he's going to a ding...it's priceless. oh, and in case you haven't figured out what a ding is by now...elevator...which he will also say occasionally, but it is usually "ding." I prepped him the whole walk to the "new ding" saying, "once we get off of the new ding we're going to go for a walk because mommy needs to do something and then we'll go back and do new ding and old ding." well, needless to say, the minute we get off the elevator and he sees that we were not headed right back on, it was on! "no mommy, new ding again." he said it over and over. then he finally stomped his foot, growled at me and said, "no mommy, new ding one more time!" it was really quite cute now that i think about it, but in the blazing sun surrounded by important looking people i was pretty much over it at the time :-) to make this story shorter, Landon was finally appeased when we got into the circuit court and we were informed that we needed to go to the second floor...NEW NEW DING MOMMY! oh boy! does it ever end :-)

after registering the name we headed back and did new ding and old ding for a while. lunch was NOT happening as getting back on the ding was far more important. he did spare me having to walk across to the garage near south street or to the omni, so i appreciated that. after the downtown mall ding we headed to SPLASH (2-hour summer speech program) and guess what's there! "SPLASH ding"! i was about dinged out at this point, so i told him we could do it once before SPLASH and once after and that's it.

after SPLASH ding trip two we get in the car and not 2 seconds later he says, "um, what about michaels ding mommy?" "no, baby, not today." "what about doubletree ding?" "no baby, not today." "um, what about showroom ding, mommy?"

I think our goal for tomorrow is to NOT ride a ding!

as dinged out as i am, Landon is happy as a lark and that's what is important. even better, along the way i got to register our fictitious name, which i cannot help but laugh at every time i think about it.