Mister Mom, June Edition, Part II
MAKE SURE YOU SCROLL DOWN! PICTURES ADDED TO EARLIER ENTRIES!!! ALSO EACH DAY IS UPDATED TO KEEP MELISSA IN THE KNOW!!!
9:06pm Ian got to that point again where he was getting upset. As a parent it is hard to ignore your instincts. Your kid is telling you something he needs, you give it to him, right? In this case he really wanted to play soccer balls on the Wii, so it was pretty obvious somebody was stalling bedtime. He cried and howled and I calmly said “you need a blankie, and maybe a zooey.” He stopped howling and ran upstairs… it was funny listening to his story change too “I need blankie, I need soccer ball, I need blankie, I need zooey…” by the time he was at the top of the stairs he had forgotten about soccer balls, and was saying something about stickers, but mostly focused on the blanket and pacifier. I reminded myself that he’s two; he doesn’t always need what he wants, let alone know what he needs. Bedtime stories went great and he was an angel after the initial fit; so keeping a level head worked wonders tonight.
4:02pm Called his day care to make sure he was doing alright today (was thinking about picking him up early, if not) but they said he was doing fantastic!
9:31am Ian was up 4 or 5 times last night, seemed to do ok, though. Thunderstorm at 6am woke us both up, and we both went back to sleep, very tired.
We missed breakfast this morning at daycare so I fed Ian a banana and some cereal bars. We probably could have made it right on time if we just left immediately, but I didn’t want to chance that they’d be cleaning up right as I got there.
Packed his bag with entirely too much crap… the weather feels like it could go in any direction so I dressed him in pants and long sleeves, but put shorts and short-sleeves in the bag. Raincoat on his person, warm-up coat thingy in the bag.
This morning (the 8th) Ian and I watched about 5 minutes of Curious George before a quick breakfast, then out the door… See this image larger.
EDIT – Drop-off actually went very well, by the way. Ian kept coming back to me and hugging me, but in a friendly and happy way, and then just as nicely he was off to play with his classmates. A little girl gave him a hello hug, and he pointed at a drawing on the wall. The other kids almost seemed to flock to him. I left while his attention was off of me, but I actually did say good-bye as he was wandering around.
When I got back home I discovered that the dad’s group had moved their outside activity to Play World and felt a pang of guilt as I saw an alternative to today that I probably should have made happen playing out while I take a selfish day off.
Ok so these pictures are from June 7th, right after we dropped Mommy off at the airport…
This stop and stop traffic can really get on one’s nerves. He had a helluva time passing that crocodile, and that merry-go-round is taking up at least two lanes. See this image larger.
“Tunnel!” See this image larger.
I’ve mentioned a couple times that he was afraid of slides only a little bit ago… look at him go now! See this image larger.
And that’s quite a slide there, see? See this image larger.
He’s very proud! See this image larger.
But the real jaw dropper happened next. Look at the size of this slide!!! That little joint in the middle was taller than me… I bet that’s 15 feet to the top, easy. And yes that’s our little boy climbing to the very top! See this image larger.
And he went down it not just once… See this image larger.
But TWICE!!! And if you knew how long the delay is to take a picture on an iPhone, you’d realize how miraculous it is that I got a picture of this at all. See this image larger.
We went home and watched Mr. Woods “hit the ball in the hole” at The Memorial… See this image larger.
And made a big mess. See this image larger.
Ian won the coveted Green Popsicle award for a meal well-eaten, plus he tried a mushroom! See this image larger.
