Sunday evening

It has been a good weekend.  We've stayed busy, but also somewhat low-key.  As usually happens, as Jayden was getting over his minor illness I was developing something.  Most likely from him, and usually at least twice as bad.  I'm fine, just congested and tired.  But what's new between October and April, apparently?  In case you can't tell, I'm really and truly over being sick and congested and tired.

Friday night Jayden slept 12 hours - 7:45 pm to 7:45 am, which was amazing.  He never sleeps past 7:00 am on weekends.  And especially not when I'm home alone with him.  Along with each blessing comes a curse, and I of course paid for it later (by a late nap and therefore a late wakeup from a nap and therefore a refusal to go to bed), but it felt nice Saturday morning!

We went to the "swinnging cool" (aka swimming pool) first.  We had fun, although Jayden was a little less enthusiastic than the prior Tuesday.  He was still floating and kicking and maybe sort of thinking of moving his arms.  So that was good.

We got home, ran around for a few minutes and then got back in the car to head off to a birthday party.  One of the boys from Jujus was turning one and they were thoughtful enough to invite the whole daycare.  I felt silly; it never even occurred to me to invite Jayden's daycare friends to his birthday party, but it totally makes sense.  If I'm brave enough to have a party this year I'll make sure to invite them.  In any case, the party was fun and very cute.  It was cookie monster themed, and there was a cookie bar with take-home bags.  So exciting.  I now have my very own bag of cookies, on top of all of the other sweets from the holidays I'm still doing my best to devour.  Jayden had a great time running around with the other kids from daycare, watching the fountain outside and trying to steal Owen's toys.  I let him off by himself around the room and he pops back around the corner riding a bike Owen (really Owen's parents) had literally just opened.  The other parents reassured me and we decided Jayden was just doing quality control, making sure it was safe for Owen to ride later on.

As expected, Jayden passed out on the ride home.  He slept until a little after 4 pm (and I watched most of the recorded Seahawks game - GO HAWKS!).  We played around for a bit and watched the end of the football game.  

My two kids.  Sharing the same bed, neither happily.

Distracted by dinosaurs.

We then got back in the car and had our Mommy/Jayden date.  We went to a pizza place nearby and Jayden had pasta (shocking, I'm sure - this is the 1854th night in a row that Jayden has had pasta for dinner) and I had pizza.  It was lovely.  And we had a good time.  We got home and pretty much went straight upstairs for bedtime.  We skipped a bath and generally ran around.  We talked to Carmen on the phone and Jayden told him all about his day, "showing" him the ball he was playing with and telling him stories about our day.  And then as we were reading books Jayden told me he "no wann go sweep."  So I rocked him a little extra long and then laid him in his bed.  He immediately sat up and tried to get out of bed.  He wanted me to lay down next to him, which I would not do.  So we finally compromised and I laid in the hallway with the doorway partly open so he could see me.  For. An. Hour.  He finally rolled himself around to sleep at about 8:50 pm.  I had to turn on the stars again for him even, it took so long.

And then he woke up at 4 am, wanting me to change his diaper.  I did the fastest, worst diaper change ever with him in his bed in the dark.  I turned on his noise machine, laid down next to him and passed out for an hour.  Luckily so did he.  I was back in my bed by 5:30ish and then Jayden slept until 7:30 am.  We'll see how tonight goes.

Today once we got going, we went for a looong walk (with Jayden actually walking the whole way).  It was really fun.  We made footprints on the sidewalk with the wet grass, we hopped on Jasmine's paw prints.  We pressed the button to get the green "walk" signal, we saw another dog walking, which actually is a funny story.  We were walking on one side of the street and a man with a dog was walking towards us on the same side of the street.  Jayden actually saw the dog first and shouted out "doggie!"  I grabbed Jayden's hand and walked across the street.  We looked back and I said "good morning," and Jayden echoed me "goo' mohning!"  And he said it again later when we saw another person in their driveway. Apparently he's suddenly Mr. Social.

Jayden was adamant we go to the park, so off we went, yet again.  We ran all over the place at the park, down the slide, up the ladder, down the slope, up the hill, around the corner, etc.  It was fun.

Classic Jayden, examining someone else: "they go pahk?  they go swide?  they go up staiws?  they go on othew ones?"  Yes, I think so.  Well, I don't know, probably.  I think they will go up the stairs.  Yes, apparently you're taking up this entire stairway so they have to use the other ones.  

Funny story about the hat: we were driving down Newport when Jayden said his head was cold.  I asked him if he wanted his hat and he said yes.  He never asks for his hat, so I took the opportunity, made a u-turn and headed back up the street.  I ran into the house, grabbed his hat and brought it out to the car.  I put it on his head and he said "I wiiike it! I han-sum!"  At first I didn't understand him, but then I caught on, "oh, you're handsome Jayden?"  "Yes mommy, I han-sum."  It was awesome.  Good thing he's confident.

After the park, we went to the drugstore and the grocery store, quickly getting the boring errands out of the way before we went to the "west-waunt" for "cheez -buhgehs"!

Chowing down on his cheeseburger.  He ate the entire thing, half his milkshake and some french fries.  Yes, he's a monster.

I expected him to pass out on the way home, but of course he did not.  When we got home we went straight outside, played with the balls, played bubbles and generally ran around.  We were talking to Gwamma on the phone and Jayden kept "showing" her things also, like the "wemons" (lemons) that he found on the ground, the balls that he was throwing, the bubbles he was blowing, etc.  I had to quickly explain to Gwamma what it was she was "seeing" so she could appropriately comment.  An aside: last summer we bought a bat and a ball for the pool.  We bought a couple other soft balls too.  One of the games we play is me hitting the balls with the bat and then we all (Mama, Jayden and Jasmine) go chase the balls, retrieve them and start all over again.  Well, while I was on the phone with Gwamma it was hard for me to hit so Jayden picked up the bat and a ball and started doing it himself.  He actually hit the ball a couple of times a pretty decent distance (10 feet or so) by tossing the ball with one hand and hitting the ball with the bat in his other hand.  It was awesome - amazing hand-eye coordination.  Yeah, that's my kid.

I got him to sleep without too much pain.  He started crying and trying to get out of my arms so I told him the story of the five little monkeys jumping on the bed (because it's the only one I have memorized) and by the time I got to the mama jumping on the bed he was pretty much passed out.  He slept for a bit and then we played some more, watched some Golden Globes, ate dinner (guess what?  He had pasta!), took a bath and went to bed.

All in all, a good weekend and even somewhat productive.  And tomorrow it's back to regularly scheduled programming, for better or for worse.  Hope everyone else had a good weekend and that the work week ahead treats you all well!