I WANNNNNNN DAAADDDDDDDYYYYYYYYY!

This is what I was greeted with when I picked him up from Juju's today.  Just as my friend predicted, Jayden is beginning to prefer Carmen to me.  I knew it was coming and it's (obviously) fine.  It's going to take some adjustment by me, and some adjustment by Carmen too!  He honestly was almost hysterical when I walked through the door instead of Carmen.  He eventually calmed down and was back to normal, but it was a little crazy.

To back up a little, Monday was a good day.  Another low-key, laid-back day, which is exactly what we wanted.

I put this up on Instagram. This is what we call responsible parenting.  :)

Stuffing as many fruit snacks in his mouth as it can hold.

Trying to push Daddy off the step into the water.

Still trying.  And almost falling in himself in the process.
He eventually succeeded, but it took a whole lot of effort.

Mummied up in the sunshine after swimming to get warm.  Love his cute little toes.

The week was fine, nothing incredibly bad or good.  My work life took a turn for the worse, in that I am now co-supervising another unit.  This means I am doing at least half as much work again - and supervising another 1-1/2 lawyers.  It'll be an interesting experience.  I don't know we'll all survive, but we'll do our best.  In any case, it means I spent my week (at work) with my head spinning and in about 845 meetings.  And that will continue next week.  I've come away with two positives, and I'm going to do my best to stick to them: I will be learning a new area of law, and that's always interesting, and I get to work more closely with my friend/co-worker Lili, and we have similar styles and seem to get along fine.

Most importantly, Thursday night was NFL kickoff, and it was a go SEAHAWKS kind of night.  Which means that today was TGIBF (Thank Goodness Its (Seahawk) Blue Friday).  Which I forgot about but managed to participate in nonetheless.

Yesterday Jayden had his first ever dentist appointment.  He was all kinds of excited about it, until he got in the chair.  Then he sat completely still, giving me the death stare and opening his mouth about 1/4 inch for the first 10 or 15 minutes.  He eventually warmed up.  The hygienist was really great with him and by the end he told me he had fun and that we should go to the dentist every day.

In the waiting room.  Mommy, why isn't it our turn yet?!?

Using the straw - so fun!

Look Mommy, my teeth are clean!!!

After I taught him to say "Go SEAHAWKS!" Thursday night and he forced Carmen to say it a few times at dinner (it was awesome), this morning he had a haircut, finally.  Carmen said he was great, and even talked to a couple of the guys in the barber shop this time.  He kept asking "is it my turn yet?!?"

Picked out.  Check out how long his hair is!

All cleaned up, chillaxin in the chair.  This is totally his happy face.

Jayden has been absolutely obsessed with books recently.  We "pway books" 18 times a day.  And we honestly probably read 20 books a day on the weekends and maybe 10 books on the weekdays.  It's amazing.  We read every kind of book there is - Cat in the Hat, picture books, Otis, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Cinderella, The Belly Button Book, The Ugly Duckling, Wheels on the Bus, Giraffes Can't Dance, Three Little Pigs, Swim Swim, literally everything.  It's a lot of fun, but I have started drinking a whole lot more water.

This weekend will be busy, but hopefully fun.  I have to work in the morning, but will make it back in time for swim lessons.  Sunday Carmen's friend Kenny and his wife Tracy will come visit.  Our plans are primarily to hang out, swim, watch football, eat and just generally relax.  Jayden starts soccer on Sunday too, so Carmen, Jayden and I will run out to soccer for a minute.  We'll see how Jayden likes it.  He had so much fun playing soccer on the beach last weekend that I hope that translates into his classes over the next few weeks.  It's a parent interactive class, so we'll see how worn out Carmen and I get!

And then Monday comes.  Carmen flies to Montana and I'm on my own for four ridiculously stressful days of work, along with single parenting and preparing for the big birthday bash next Saturday.  It'll be fun.  Right?!?

By the way, can anyone believe that Jayden is three one week from today?  It's so crazy.  I'm so excited for him to keep growing and learning and becoming the coolest kid there ever was - or at least the coolest kid I've ever raised.