Tony made a somewhat last minute decision to bring Evan and Colin for a quick weekend trip to WI. Nicholas and I stayed home. At first this idea seemed to bring me down. Of course, I didn’t want to travel that many hours in the car in 2.5 days, but I was thinking it was going to be a long weekend at home with someone that can’t have conservations and throws tantrums for no reason. I love him, but he has been known to be exhausting and I was worried without his dad and brothers around to create distraction or help that I would be one busy tired Mom.
Turns out, I was tired. He didn’t sleep well cause of this little cough. But I used that to bring him into bed with me for part of the night... one of my favorite things to snuggle in bed with those little bodies. And we actually stayed entertained the rest of the weekend. He was happy. Maybe the extra attention helped. I don’t recall having ever spent an entire 50 hours with just him. And I loved that actually. We bonded a little extra! And as I focused on him, I realized how his language is taking off. He said some many new weekend I can’t count... Wisconsin, orange, helicopter (copter), snuggle. He is interested in trying to guess the color of an object and he was excited to read and play trains. There was a little injury that scared me. He fell off the back of the ottoman in his room and hit the back of his head on a wooden puzzle and one of the little pegs punctured his skin and bled pretty good. Glad when it stopped with pressure and a sucker/show to calm him down.
Thankful for this weekend dedicated to this little boy that is growing up too fast! But a sweet and goofy one!
Monday, November 13, 2017
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Just about perfect Saturday
Well, maybe perfect.
Here’s how it went: slept until 7:40 when I heard little bodies up.
Went for a run (first one in at least a month) with Jess
Played with happy Nicholas while Tony ran and the other boys were happily playing with each other, We all went to Meijer together and survived and the boys even had some responsibility helping wth check out and scanning and bagging
Lunch and food prep for expected dinner guests
2 hour quiet time where I did a little around the house, but mostly worked on knitting a sweater, while Tony did some work for a class and Evan and Colin played legos and watch a movie
A busy hour of cleaning, laundry, cooking, with good helpers
Nice dinner and visit with Vidors with more happy moments from the kiddos
Bedtime stories rocking with Nicholas and pointing out some colors, he repeated ‘green’ after I said it
Just a little down time again for me and off to bed now
Can’t think of anything I would have changed. And it was even rainy, which must have made all the indoor time seem cozier and content.
Here’s how it went: slept until 7:40 when I heard little bodies up.
Went for a run (first one in at least a month) with Jess
Played with happy Nicholas while Tony ran and the other boys were happily playing with each other, We all went to Meijer together and survived and the boys even had some responsibility helping wth check out and scanning and bagging
Lunch and food prep for expected dinner guests
2 hour quiet time where I did a little around the house, but mostly worked on knitting a sweater, while Tony did some work for a class and Evan and Colin played legos and watch a movie
A busy hour of cleaning, laundry, cooking, with good helpers
Nice dinner and visit with Vidors with more happy moments from the kiddos
Bedtime stories rocking with Nicholas and pointing out some colors, he repeated ‘green’ after I said it
Just a little down time again for me and off to bed now
Can’t think of anything I would have changed. And it was even rainy, which must have made all the indoor time seem cozier and content.
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