The sweetest little boy was standing at his gate this morning when I got up saying "good morning Daddy, it's good morning outside and I wanted to get up". Monday started very nicely!
I'm not sure when it started but now JH comes in to my office, grabs an extra mouse I keep in my drawer and says "I have to work now Daddy" and sits on my Eames chair and slides the mouse all over the ottoman. He can usually sit there for 10 minutes or so before something else steals his attention away.
After work on Monday we drove to MI City and JH used his new booster seat. He kept reaching forward and grabbing my headrest and wiggling all around. He had a new freedom but seemed to understand that he had to keep the shoulder strap over him and the belt buckled. When we got home he wouldn't eat dinner and started throwing power fits. He wants to do things his way and when we don't anticipate that happening and work around it he loses it. No kisses at a VERY early bed-time but we snuck some in when we got him up to go potty at 10:00 PM.
On Tuesday Da Da and JH spent the majority of the day outside and in the basement since I had an important set of meetings. I saw them running around in the yard from my office and at one point I went out and JH was playing in the mud. He walked out of a muddy area Da Da was digging and looked like his shoes weighed about 5 pounds each.
The week was more good than bad so we'll take it as a success. On Friday Jo and Damian drove up and JH was so happy. He ran around the yard with Damian until pretty late playing on his swing set. I decided to break in the new fire pit and lit a fire and roasted marshmallows with JH and Damian. JH still had burnt marshmallow lips when he woke-up in the morning.
Saturday we picked Uncle Michael up and drove to Chicago where we picked Auntie Staci up to attend Market Days. We met Daryl and Sienna and had lunch and walked around the street fair. We had planned on staying much longer than we did but the weather turned pretty quickly. We drove home late in the afternoon and hit a MAJOR storm where the rain was so heavy that we had to pull over. JH was asleep and when the hail started he woke-up and didn't seem too bothered. He just started jabbering about how it was "dark in here".
I managed to pick-up a bug that finally hit me on Saturday evening so Da Da and I watched TV in bed after we put JH to sleep. I don't think we made it to 8:00 PM! I was sick on Sunday so Da Da and JH went to MI City to get groceries while I laid on the sofa napping most of the day. When they returned I went out (I missed my boys) to get JH out of his car seat and he handed me the bud of a flower "this if for you Daddy"; all the petals were all over his lap. We had a nice evening and he laid on my lap for about 30 minutes while Da Da fell asleep sitting with us. It was a great end of a very busy week.
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