toddlers given alcohol drinks

so within the last month or so there has been 3 incidents of restaurants giving children alcohol drinks. Now as a mother of 2 young kids ages 4 and 2 1/2 when i get them a drink at a restaurant i will test it before them. i do it to make sure its what we asked for and to make sure it doesn't test funny.
so I'm really trying to understand how one the restaurant wasn't paying attention to what they were serving these kids and two how can you as a parent don't test your kids drink or look to see if its what u asked for. do u watch ur kids faces when they test that first test of the drink? you can tell if they aren't drinking something that they know. both my kids are at the age that they tell me if something isn't right.
parents please be aware of what is going on around you at the restaurant, or where ever esle you are at.

living in our blue house

well we moved into our new house a week before april 1st we have lived here a few weeks now. the kids love the new place. we have a trampoline in the front yard so they have been bouncing. we are slowly almost unpacked thank goodness. other then that we have been doing well. keith had to get a tooth pulled right after turning 4 because it was a dead tooth. which happens when they hit their head too much. or just their mouths. he was such a good boy when we had it done i was so proud of him. arianna has taken to potty training once we moved in. she is doing so well

WE ARE MOVING......

we r moving in the next week. which is making me stress out so bad. blah i know that its going to be a better place for us but it makes me crazy that i have to pack and get this stuff ready to move while mannie is working. which i know is what he needs to do. wish us luck

My son is growing

omg my son is growing up. today we took his bike out and checked to make sure it was in working order. we had to take it to get the tires pumped. he and his daddy got it done while arianna and i went and got some treats. i cant believe that its almost keiths 4th bday. wow. so amazing.

the blizzard and more snow

so everyone in the world knows about the blizzard chicago was hit with. well it was so not fun for anyone. please we lost power so of course we were pretty cold for 12 hrs in our house. then we had to go to the inlaws. man im so tried of winter and all the stuff that is still coming down.

the kids playing in the snow

update on life.

life has been ok. my bday came and now im 28 wahoo. not. kids loved all the cake that we' ve had. we celebrated all together with their wita(her bday is today), and wito. plus my brother in law and sister in law and ms connie. it was so nice. im really proud of the kids for behaving in the restaurant

happy new year. 2011

Holy moly its already 2011. dang thats crazy. but it was a nice time. i managed to be awake at 12 so that was a plus. the kids got woken up for about 20 mins by the dang fireworks.