It's just another day in paradise (something my Dad used to frequently say), with the weather still a bit too chilly for the middle of March, if you ask me. The sky is gray and Max keeps asking, "where is Mr. Sun?" I have to tell him that Mr. Sun is hiding behind the clouds but that he really, really would like to come out soon and help make us warm. Hopefully in a month or so...
This has been a most wonderful day. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened, but let me explain a typical Wednesday in our household.
The kids woke up around 7:30am as Brian was getting ready for work. We all got up and began talking about the breakfast menu. Max's favorite is blue pancakes and Lily usually likes Eggo waffles, but today, the kids wanted the new Hot Chocolate w/ Marshmallow flavored Pop Tarts that Brian brought home as a sample from drugstore.com (as a nice little job perk, he brings home a plethora of samples, from soap to skin care products, to...Pop Tarts!) They each ate one, with a side of fruit and some milk and were good to go. Brian kissed the family goodbye and headed out the door. Max and I got Lily dropped off at school and then came back home for a bit before my 10:30am yoga class up at Vision Quest, my local gym that is 1.5 miles away. He and I try to make it to the gym 3-4 times a week, where he gets to hang out in the play room with Kris, Katie and the other little kiddos' whose parents are taking care of their health. Today I did my yoga class, then sat in the sauna to sweat and to warm myself up (because it's so chilly outside, I like to close my eyes and pretend that I'm on a tropical beach somewhere...and hey, it's included in my membership, so why not take advantage of another opportunity to sweat?)
Max and I returned home a bit after noon and he watched one episode of Dragon Tales while I got lunch ready. He ordered up "peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat", so I got that ready, with a side of Pirate's Booty and some grapes. I made my favorite lunch of 3 scrambled eggs and a slice of toast (made with Dave's Killer Bread). Max always swipes the first bite of my toast, then returns it to my plate for me to eat. He has no interest in my scrambled eggs. We have quite the routine set up, and I love that I have this opportunity to spend so much 1-on-1 time with Max, a luxury I didn't have with Lily at this age, because we had her plugged into full-time day care while I slaved away at a job in a cubicle that I lost a little more passion for each day.
After lunch, Max and I went to the bathroom where he peed on the big-boy potty (hurray!) and he got a jelly bean. We've just begun the potty-training and we're working on trying to be a bit more consistent in asking him if he'd like to try. We then retired to our room to read a book and watch a show before nap time. He chose "The little engine that could", one of my childhood favorites and the book that Lily brought home from the school library this week. Along with the great message about helping others and maintaining a positive attitude ("I think I can, I think I can..."), the illustrations are beautiful and use nice bold colors. Max chose to watch a show called "Poppy Cat", then I put him down for his nap and came out to clean up some dishes.
After 20 minutes, I could still hear him chatting to himself, so I went and "re-tucked" him in and told him he ought to close his eyes and take a little snooze. 20 minutes later, I repeated this, and as I type this blog post, I can see the drizzle of rain still coming down, the jazz music is softly playing on my iPod in the kitchen, and there is a low hum of Max still conversing with himself and/or the stuffed animals in his crib. Seeing as it's 3:05pm and Lily will be released from her jump-rope club at 3:30pm, it looks like Max will be joining me for pick-up. We have an amazing neighbor named Sarah who will come over and "Max sit", we call it, where her only task is to sit in my living room on the couch and read or snooze while I go to school to pick up Lily. This only occurs when Max is napping, which it appears he's going to pass on today, so Sarah's off the hook. I give her a daily 3:10pm status update. :)
After I have the kids home, I'll get them an after-school snack, work on some homework with Lily (she's got a monthly calendar with one activity to perform each day), then get dressed for work at Starbucks (5:15-10pm shift)and drop the kids off at my mom's house around 5pm, where she'll feed them dinner and Brian will join them for dinner after work. My older brother Jere is going to be there tonight, so it will be nice for the kids to hang out with him and wear him out.
OK, I'd probably better wrap this up, as I'm still in my yoga clothes and need to change for our walk in the rain. I wonder if all of my posts will be this long? Apparently I have a lot to say, and I had NO IDEA it was all waiting in there to come out in a blog post.
Off to enjoy the rest of this gorgeous Seattle afternoon...
Fantastic!!! I love it!!!!
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