Sooo, what to tell you. It's been an eventful and at the same time uneventful couple of weeks. Carmen was gone for almost a week, which turned out to actually not be as bad as I thought it might be. I was definitely exhausted; it's not like life was that different than normal, but I basically had no downtime, where as usually I get at least a little bit, especially on the weekends. But Jayden and I had fun. As I'm writing this I'm realizing that the last time I posted was while Carmen was gone, I think Saturday night. So. On Sunday we hung around the house in the morning, playing outside and inside and everywheres (as he says - everybodys, everywheres, everythings has an "s" on it!).
In the afternoon, after his nap, we went to have cupcakes for snack!
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| A boy after his mom's heart, he loved the cake part of the cupcake more than the frosting. And he liked the cinnamon sugar cupcake more than he liked the chocolate cupcake. So funny. |
Tuesday night I had Katrina come over so I could go to a painting class with a friend. I was torn on whether or not I should go, but in the end I decided it made sense to do something for me. I hate my painting, but I had a great time. I haven't really done anything artistic without a purpose since college and I think I miss it!
My friend and I with our paintings. They were supposed to be Van Gogh sunflowers but mine definitely turned out to be a giant yellow blob. Oh well...
Carmen got home Tuesday night so our lives were back to normal-ish on Wednesday. The "Winter Storm of 2014" hit Southern California on Wednesday/Thursday and we had lots o' rain. Our version of a "storm" is 2"-3" of rain in one day. Yeah. I fully admit that we don't know what we're doing down here. However, the issue is that we never have rain, so when it does rain the roads are all oily and slick and people are idiots and don't drive safely. People either drive 35 on the freeway for no reason or zip around corners not taking into account the possible slicks on the road. Luckily neither of us ran into any problems. We made it through the end of the week and to the weekend! Yay!
Carmen and I were wearing hats/hoods Thursday morning so Jayden decided he needed to run upstairs and grab his hat. The hat he picked wasn't exactly useful as far as the rain was concerned, but it made him happy.
When he and Carmen got to Juju's he refused to take it into her house so he had to leave it in Carmen's car. He really follows the rules of not taking anything in to Juju's very seriously.
What our winter storm did give us is a beautiful rainbow. This is from outside Juju's house. Unfortunately by the time I got outside with Jayden the rainbow was gone. But I showed him the picture. He was not as impressed. But that's okay. There'll be more rainbows in his life.
At swim lessons on Saturday. I didn't get in the water so I got to take pictures.
Jayden on the turtle. That's Ms. Stacy in the background. I still haven't called, but I am going to try to get him into a semi-private lesson this month. He'll be swimming the butterfly stroke in no time!
Saturday was fine; we ran some errands and had some cheeseburgers for lunch. Saturday night we went out to dinner at a pizza place near us and all went to bed early (or at least Jayden and I did - Carmen stayed up late playing video games, as is so often the case!). Sunday morning Jayden woke up early, like 6:00 am, and Carmen got up with him since I'd woken up with him in the middle of the night. Jayden was fine, playing and having fun. By the time we got ourselves together and Jayden and I were headed out to the grocery store, Jayden was getting fussy. On the way home he passed out and slept for a couple of hours. He woke up and was burning up. We took his temperature and it was almost 103 degrees! It's the highest fever he's ever had (which is actually pretty good, considering how frequently little kids get fevers), so it scared me. We medicated him and watched all kinds of movies and episodes of Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Relaxing on Mommy, with his feet up on Daddy, holding on to his baba. Oh the life of a toddler.
He fell asleep laying on me during Happy Feet 2 for a little bit. He barely ate anything all day after breakfast - maybe some applesauce and not much else. And after he ate he curled up in a ball as if his stomach was cramping or something. Carmen and I spent about 20 minutes debating whether or not we should go to urgent care and finally decided to let him try to sleep it off. We dosed him up with medicine again and set him to bed. He slept through the night, and at about 5:45 am came bursting into our room. I had already called him out of daycare and was going to call in sick so I wasn't worried about getting ready in time to get to work. He actually passed out in our bed, which almost never happens and the two of us woke up around 7:30 am finally. He still felt super warm, but I took his temperature and it read about 99 degrees, which is not feverish at all. I knew it. Jayden does this all the time; he gets a fever, makes it seem like it's the end of the world and then pops up the next morning like nothing happened!
Don't get me wrong, I was grateful that he was better Monday. And he wasn't really completely better. He fell asleep around 10:15 again, only to be woken up 10 minutes later by my phone ringing super loudly. I was so bummed. We were in the car and I debated driving around for another 30 minutes to get him to go back to sleep but decided I'd go for it. I ended up having work phone calls and email to respond to and of course he only slept 45 minutes. I tried to keep him low-key for the afternoon, but we all know that doesn't really work. Carmen came home early, and Jayden and I ran around in the backyard, throwing the ball and chasing lemons while Carmen dealt with some work issues. We had a good dinner and got Jayden to bed as early as we could. Of course he woke up in the middle of the night so I spent three hours sleeping in the hall outside his room (I'm going to need a chiropractor so badly when we're done with the kid thing). I got up at 6 am to get back to my bed only to get up 30 minutes later. Awesome.
The good news is that he woke up this morning and was quite cheerful and seemed perfectly healthy. Juju claimed she could tell he had been sick, but I don't know if I completely believe her. She said he had a great appetite and was just fine all day. Thank goodness.
Jayden has turned into quite a singer. He sings everything. He takes after his father and makes up songs about everything. He has sung the "Mama come over here" song, which is him saying "Maaaa-maaaa cooommmme OOOverrrrrr heeeerrrrreeeeee!" over and over again. He has also sung the "be ready in a minute," the "riding in the stroller," and the "time to go" song. Give him a phrase and he can turn it into a song. We, as a family, are also obsessed with Pharell's song "Happy." We regularly have "Happy" dance parties during and after dinner time. Last night we sang "I believe I can fly" by R.Kelly. I'm not happy with the artist, but the song was awesome. Jayden had no idea what the words were but he listened and picked a few of them up pretty quickly. And he also acted out the song, spreading his arms out as "wings" when we sang about flying and spreading his wings and flying. And then the Space Jam DVD showed up today! (Carmen had ordered it a few days ago, not realizing we'd be singing along to the soundtrack on Monday night). Perfect timing. I love how much he loves singing, and I love that he doesn't mind my singing. I will not sing in front of anyone. Except Jayden because he can't tell (yet) that I have no singing talent whatsoever, besides my shower and alone-in-the-car singing. Kids are the best when it comes to being completely non-judgmental and accepting of you. Especially when you're their parents and you feed them and clothe them and generally make sure they're alive.
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