We had swim lessons as usual on Saturday morning. Jayden was his usual happy self, even though we had a substitute teacher. She did not push him as hard as Stacy does, so Carmen and I kept tossing him in the water and encouraging him to kick his feet and move his arms. We think we might look into semi-private lessons so that Jayden can get a little more attention. It all depends on the schedule and the cost. It would also mean Carmen and I wouldn't necessarily have to get in the pool every weekend - but that's just a side benefit, not our true motivation, I promise. :)
We ended up getting a babysitter twice. We had thought we'd have things to do for Carmen's work both nights, but one got cancelled so it turns out we got Saturday night to ourselves. Carmen splurged and bought us tickets to the Book of Mormon. We loved it. It is highly controversial and highly offensive, if you want to take it that way. But it is also highly hilarious, especially if you're not Mormon.
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| The set before the show. We saw it at the Pantages in L.A. It is a really beautiful theater. |
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| During intermission. Kinda dark, but it was the best I could do. |
Trying to ride on Daddy's shoulders, but not exactly getting the concept.
Rolling on the floor. For some random reason he decided to roll from the door to the backyard to the steps to the entry way. Weird kid.
And then he posed at the end. Hilarious.
Today Carmen had to go to the office, but not me, thank goodness! Jayden and I played at the house for a bit and then went to the park, to lunch and to the store.
Running up the grassy hill at the park.
Running up the dirt hill at the park. Apparently I did not need to go running this morning, because we spent a large part of our time at the park running on the paths. We ran up this rather ridiculously large hill. We did go down the slide and up the ladder and all of that. But we spent more time running than anything else.
When we got to the top of the hill, I made him stop to take a picture with me. The view was so pretty!
I apparently kept him out too long because he then threw a fit and a half, maybe two, when I was trying to put him down for a nap. He'd struggled this weekend when I put him down, but he eventually went down and almost willingly. But not today. Finally he crawled into my bed, on my chest and passed out for two hours or so. I was glad he slept, but it meant I was held hostage. I had intended to make dinner, get some work done and do all kinds of stuff while he slept. Instead I slept a little, played too many lame games on my phone and ipad, did a little online shopping (not for me, I promise) and just laid there. It was relaxing, I guess. When he woke up he was not in the best of moods, so we played a little music and watched a little Wild Kratts and Dinosaur Train while I cooked dinner. He refused to eat most of what I cooked, which has been his trend for the past week.
Jayden has been particularly interested in the toilet, wearing pull-ups and all of that kind of stuff. We've been using pull-ups, and Juju said it was fine to use them at daycare too. But this weekend, since it was a three day weekend, I figured I could try throwing some underwear on him and see what happens. Welllll, what happened was not pretty. We did okay in the morning; I took him to the potty a few times. Nothing happened, but at least I was putting it in my head. Then 9:40 rolled around. I took the fastest shower possible but right as I was getting out, Jayden ran into my bathroom and said "Mommy I pottied on the floor!" I said, "what?!?" But sure enough, potty all over the carpet in my closet. And all over Jayden's underwear, shorts and socks. And then I pulled down his underwear and out feel some poo-poo. I texted this to Carmen: "The great underwear experiment of Feb 2014 has been aborted. Results? Defffffinitely not ready, as evidenced by the 940 am pooping in the underwear and peeing on the floor of mommy's closet. Back to diapers it it." His response: "That sounds terrible." My response: "It's not really that bad. It could have been worse."
And then that's exactly where it went. We did switch to diapers immediately; Jayden didn't want to switch to pull-ups, so diapers it was. We went to the park and to lunch. We were on our way in to the store when Jayden started acting all kinds of funny. He was grabbing his "pee-pee" and saying "Oooh! Potty! It tickles! It tiiiiickles!" He was being really weird, but I figured he was just being funny, so I let it go. I told him we'd change him in a few minutes, as soon as we got to the restrooms in the store. We were finishing up in the produce department and he's walking a few feet ahead of me and around the corner. He turns around and comes around the corner; "mommy, I pottied on the floor!" I said, "WHAT?!?" I ran around the corner and sure enough, there was a puddle of potty on the floor. I then noticed that half of his diaper was hanging out the bottom of his shorts. Thank goodness I had the diaper bag with me. I grabbed a handful of wipes, cleaned up the floor of the grocery store and ran him to the bathroom. The diaper wasn't even full, so I have absolutely no idea how it came off. If it was going to happen, today was the day for it to happen, though. Thank goodness the grocery store wasn't crowded so as far as I know, nobody saw.
Tomorrow it's back to business as usual, except for, as usual, it's a crazy week. I will be on the way to, or in meetings from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Wednesday I have two clinics. Thursday Carmen leaves seriously early and won't be home until late Tuesday. Monday I have a late meeting that Jayden may get to attend with me. I'm planning to lay low over the weekend, although we'll see how stir crazy I feel by that time! I told Jayden we might go to the zoo, since it's free and so close to our house. That may be the extent of it.
I hope those of you on the east coast are thawing out and getting power back if you lost it. Nobody over there wants to know what Southern California has been like. We are certainly spoiled. In any case, we wish you all the best.
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