This week...

First off, once again I seem to not be able to upload videos.  It's driving me nuts, because I've actually been able to capture some hilarious conversations with Jayden recently and I wanted to upload even one of them and it just won't work.  SO annoying.  While I try to figure that out, I'll update in words and pictures.

This week was good-ish.  It was nice that we had substitute daycare, particularly for me, because my work was just hard.  So it's even better now that the week is over.  Jayden does have fun at Dorkis' house, and this time he didn't cry when I dropped him off on Monday.  Kind of a miracle.  On Tuesday or Wednesday the little girl who he loves playing with showed up, which made it even better for him.  The little girl's name is Genovee (or that's at least how I understand it) and she is hilarious.  She's loud and obnoxious (in the cute almost three year old way), but she and Jayden have too much fun together.  She is two days older than Jayden, and about the same size, so they are about perfect playmates.

The kids made a painting together on the first day, and Dorkis displayed it outside her front door.

What I see when I go pick him up.  Genovee is the girl in the far back, and the boy in the middle is Keelan (that's how it's pronounced but I doubt that's how it's spelled).

Wednesday and Thursday were killer days for me, and Friday morning Jayden was adamant about staying home, to say the least.  I got kicked, hit, yelled at, generally abused.  And then after dropping him off at Dorkis' house, practically ran out the door to prevent more crying.  By the time I got to him Friday everyone was better - my day was better, his day was better, everything was better.  Thank goodness.  We got home, played frisbee, bat and ball and drank lots of apple juice.  

Pantless Fridays.  Because that's how Jayden rolls.  I almost said that's how we roll, but then wanted to make sure you didn't think I was also pantsless.

Nothing like playing baseball in a t-shirt and Lebrons.  

Today we had a pretty typical day of errands and swim lessons.  Nothing exciting.

All smiles in the swimming pool.

If you can't tell, he's the one in the middle, diving underwater.  He swam across the pool all by himself, breathing and kicking and everything.  And he was diving to the bottom of the pool, picking up rings and bringing them to the top.  

Relaxing on a mattress in Macy's. 

Checking out Mama's credit cards.  Gotta start 'em early...or not.

Playing with the new toy, that was also daddy's favorite toy when he was young.  Jayden wanted to take it to bed with him but we discouraged that (I could imagine flippers breaking off the first or second time he rolled over onto the little plastic man).

Jayden has been overwhelmed this week, I think.  He's been mostly good, but also hit or miss depending on the minute, hour, time of day, etc.  It's hard on everyone, including him, but at least his parents can remind themselves he's two (two and a HALF, if you ask him) and can only do so much.

This morning he was up at 5:45 am.  He had peed through his diaper, so he had a legit reason to be up.  But he wouldn't go back to bed, no matter how hard I tried.  So by about 6:20 we were just up.  And after we had eaten breakfast, Carmen had exercised (and changed an accident in the middle), I had walked Jasmine and gone for a run, and we'd both showered and gotten ready for the day, it was only 9:30 am.  Unreal.  But it did mean we were productive.  And then, somehow, Jayden only napped for an hour.  So then we were even more productive in the afternoon.  We made it home, he enjoyed his diver and then bedtime.  Carmen and I continued watching Orange is the New Black.  We finished the first two seasons of House of Cards this week and are moving on to OITNB.  It's pretty good, although both Carmen and I are trying to figure it out still.  We're moving on to either Homeland or Breaking Bad next, so tell me if you have a preference.

This upcoming week we have no childcare, but both of us are kind of okay with it.  We're taking Monday off.  I'll work all day Wednesday and Carmen will stay home and we'll work out Tuesday, Thursday and Friday between the two of us.  It'll be fun, I'm sure.  But actually we both are looking forward to it - it will be nice to spend some extra time with him and to have an excuse to be out of the office.