Weekend Update

Carmen was in NY for a few days and Dallas for a few days last week.  It was a tough week for me, but Jayden and I had a good time.  On Wednesday night, we sent a "night night" picture to Carmen.  It took us a few takes to get it right, but here it is:

He was actually saying "night night Daddy" and "I love you Daddy" (in his words, which comes out "nigh-nigh dah-dee" and "i-ub-oo dah-dee") in this picture, but that means that his face didn't look so cute.

So then I tried "smile!" and I got this.  Which is also cute and shows his dimples, but isn't as good as it could be.

So then I got this one.  And even though his baba is taking center stage, he's looking pretty darn cute.  It was one of the few photos I put up on facebook and apparently everyone commented on it to Carmen.  :)

Last weekend I bought him a kid-size table and stools so he could draw, roll his cars, etc. on something he could actually fit at.

And he loved it!  I put it together Monday night, or maybe Sunday night.  And he came down the next morning saw it, pointed to it and immediately ran over and sat down.  It was a little harder to get him to Juju's that morning.  

This weekend my mom flew down to help us out since Carmen was out of town and working until last night and I had a conference Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  I didn't get to see Jayden at all on Friday, only for a couple hours yesterday and only a few hours today.  It was a little sad, but it was also good that I was able to attend the conference.  Long story short, I don't have so many pictures from this weekend.  But here's one:

Carmen brought home new shoes last night, so I put them on Jayden's feet while he was eating his dinner.  He took it a little too far and got extremely upset every time one shoe started to fall off and even more angry when I eventually took them off.  It was hilarious.  

In slightly unrelated news, we are redoing our backyard right now.  When I came home Thursday they had done quite a bit of demo.

And they did a whole bunch more on Friday.  They'll finish the demo and then start building it back up.  We're hoping it's done in about 7 weeks.  We'll see.  It's pretty sad to not get to go out in the backyard but we just keep telling ourselves the end result will be worth it.  In the meantime we'll be taking Jasmine on a lot more walks and trying to prevent Jayden from whining about going out the back door.

Tomorrow is Carmen's birthday, so he and I are taking the day off work and taking Jayden to Juju's.  We're going to go to a movie and eat cheesesteaks for lunch, which is about Carmen's favorite day ever.  If anyone asks, he's turning 29 (again!  I know, he looks so young for his age).