Day full of errands

I had today off - gotta love Cesar Chavez Day - mostly because of what Cesar Chavez did for farmworkers in California, but also because he gives me a day off at the end of March/beginning of April.  Someone should make it a national holiday.

In any case, I had nothing exciting planned, but it actually turned out to be a fun day.  I had to take my car in for service, so Jayden and I walked around the car dealerships in the area and checked out all the trucks and cars.  Most exciting of all, we saw a truck that carries cars and trucks.  It was pretty exciting.  We sat on the curn and ate our snack while we watched the driver readjust all the cars on the second shelf.  We missed the unloading unfortunately, but at least we got to see the truck.

Jayden was a champ - he walked for 45 minutes with me, even helping me push the stroller at times.

Pushing the stroller.  It's tough, but he did a really good job.  He should try pushing it when his thirty pound body is in there!

Snack time.  Jayden was fixated on the cars being moved around on the truck.  We were sitting on the curb outside the Cadillac dealership.  I was afraid someone was going to ask us to leave!

I texted Carmen this picture.  Seriously.  When did he outgrow the stroller?  His head is at the top and his feet are hanging off the bottom.  That was a fun new development.

We went to lunch and then home for a bit, and then off to the doctor, to make sure his ear infections were gone.  I wasted my co-pay, but as the doctor said, what he was able to give me was reassurance.  So I am no longer worried about ear infections, I will just suffer through them.  Who needs to get a good nights' sleep anyway?!?  In any case, the good news is that his ears are completely clear and non-infected.  Yay!  I guess that means whatever bit him Saturday night was teething or nightmares or just needing to "cuddle" with Mama in the guest bed by sleeping perpendicular to her with his feet in her side.  Sure.  No problem.

We visited Daddy at his office - he is obsessed with Daddy these days.  He and I were playing today and he heard the washing machine ding and he looks at me and goes "da-da!"  Why he associated the washing machine dinging with Carmen is beyond me - 90% of the time I am the one responsible for the laundry - but he did.  So I figured since he was so excited about seeing Daddy we should stop by and say hi.  It was fun - although the traffic was horrendous on the way home.  Definitely not doing that again at 4:30 pm.

Once we got home, I was cooking him dinner (fish sticks and spaghetti squash, followed by yogurt and cheerios - dinner of champions!) and he was being fussy.  So I brought his chair into the kitchen and gave him a bowl of cheerios.  It worked perfectly for about as long as it took me to make dinner.  He only dropped half his cheerios for Jasmine, which meant she got a little snack too.

As much as feeding a toddler is a struggle, sometimes it can be pretty rewarding.  After toiling over the fish sticks (cutting them into small pieces, dipping them in flour, dipping them in egg, dipping them in my breadcrumb concoction and then frying them), he devoured them like they were the best thing he's had in a while.  Made me feel pretty good.  It also means that tomorrow he'll throw them on the floor like they're chopped liver.  Oh well.  You take what you can get when you can get it.

Hope everyone had a good Easter - we didn't do anything different from any other Sunday.  Although after seeing what some of my friends did, it made me realized I probably should have at least put together a little basket or something.  Next year I'll be all over it AND I'll hide plastic eggs for him.  I promise.  Also, someone please remind me that I promised this - maybe in early March so I have a few weeks to prepare.  Thanks.

Happy April!