full of such quality time!
Benjamin and I had our class with Ms. Margaret this morning--he had to miss Tuesday since he had the flu bug. But today's class more than made up for it! He explored the fine art of sifting through rice with his hands to find pennies (he kept shouting "pay for it, mommy? grocery?!?)...did some more finger painting, watercolors, and learned how to trace shapes on butcher paper. Was so fun, and gave me more ideas for things to do round here once the snow flies. Michael's fabric store, anyone?
Jonathan decided not to nap until late in the afternoon, so we had a good hour and a half just hangin early afternoon...he's walking so much more now, still collapsing after about 10 steps or so, but really making progress. Such confidence this kid has! His latest thing is to walk while drinking his bottle...such a show-off.:)
Benjamin got up about an hour after Jonathan finally went down for his nap, and B and I made snacks and sat outside on the stoop. His nap was on the short side, so when he first got up I demanded some "quiet time" in the tv room...minus the tv, though. Surprisingly he went for it...played by himself for almost a full half hour. I was shocked. So it was then that we went outside...he busied himself "mowing the lawn" with his popcorn mower, driving around in his cozy coupe, drawing with chalk...and every 10 minutes or so he'd pop back over and sit next to me. He's put his hands in his lap and look up at me and say "Hi Mommy..."...then jump up and run away again. Too funny. We spent some time sitting there, though, with snacks talking about things we saw, heard, blah, blah...felt like such a quality discussion. :)LOL
It was then that my dad called and said he wanted to come pick B up for some putt-putt golf over at his condo. He'd had one of his putters cut down and transformed into a "toddler club". ADORABLE. When he showed up with it B practically lost his junk. And immediately started swinging it like a baseball bat over his head.
He'll need to work on that maneuver. :)
So, at the moment, Benjamin is off in Putt-Putt ecstasy with Papa...and I'm here with Jonathan, who just woke up about an hour ago. Brian's still working.
But in an hour I shall be leaving to go out for some Thursday night cocktails with the gals...can't wait for THAT!
A day full of QT all around.
Who could ask for more...
2 comments:
Love all the fluff, girl! Sooo sweet that your parents offered up their services so you could come see us (and Dina and Mark, of course!), once again! They rock! They can adopt me anyday they want! :) Had SUCH a great time with you, as usual... Christian and Brian are definitely twins separated at birth, i swear! Soo funny!! Love ya! D
Love ya more, D!
I must admit, my parents are pretty great. But like you said, it's never "without a price"...my poor mom was basically in a bag when we got home, but still insisted it was worth it so we could have "couple time" with our friends.
Still reminiscing over our fabulous sushi din-din...here's to couple time!
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