I love the weekends! After 12 straight days at work following my 11 days off, I was ready for a break. Eric was, too. Saturday, I slept in while Mommy was fixing breakfast. Eric eventually woke up and played in the kitchen while Mommy continued with breakfast.
Alas, Mommy is missing an ingredient for her infamous apple dumpling something or other that she occasionally makes for breakfast. So, she brings Eric into our bedroom and sets him down in bed with me. This is no problem, except I am really tired and would like to sleep a little longer. Mommy assures me that if she turns on a Barney video, Eric will let me sleep while she goes to the grocery. I am skeptical, but I agree. Sure enough, before Mommy gets out the front door, Eric is asking for his cup. Mommy retrieves this, but now he is restless and will not climb back into bed. I crawl out of bed and mope to the living room to watch Barney on the big TV. Eric is content to sit quietly and watch.
Mommy is back! Eric and I play in the living room until breakfast is ready. We wrestle and tickle and laugh. We play a while rolling his football back and forth. All in all, it is a pleasant morning. I am now waking up.
We played after breakfast until it was time for Eric’s nap. While Eric napped, I spent some time playing with my laptop. It is still relatively new and I have a few things left to figure out.
Eric and I spent most of Saturday afternoon singing and dancing and playing in the office. I had ripped all of his CDs onto the computer, and we were playing a random shuffle of them all. He has three CDs from Music Playhouse, two VeggieTales CDs, and a three-CD set of kids songs from Christmas. The latter came from Granny Malone, cousin Michael’s and Michelle’s granny. I set the computer to show cool colors and lines and shapes on the screen that changed and moved with the music. Eric was mesmerized by this. He stared at the screen for long periods while listening to the music. We had much fun!
Sunday morning. Today it is my turn to fix breakfast. That means…Pancakes! Or “cancakes” as Eric likes to say. I made the usual Mickey Mouse shape for Eric’s pancake. He easily recognizes it as Mickey. While I was cooking the pancakes, Eric wanted “up”, so I picked him up and held while we watched the pancakes cook. Time to flip! I asked Eric how many pancakes I was cooking. We counted out loud together, “one, two, three”, then I stopped saying the numbers and continued pointing at the pancakes. Eric counted by himself, “four, five”!
After breakfast, we decided to go to Costco. Mommy wanted to get more ink for the printer. It was important that she be able to print something today. After the shopping trip, Eric was ready for a nap.
Now, all the work we were supposed to do on Saturday could wait no longer. The weekend is almost over. We decide to finish packing up the Christmas decorations. I head outside to unplug and pack up all the lights, Homer, Frosty, etc. Inside, we had most of the decorations down a couple weeks ago, but they were not all put away, but scattered around here and there. Eric was up from his nap by now, so Mommy kept him entertained in the living room while I packed everything up. Eric found the singing reindeer (“Grandma got run over by a reindeer…”) and played for a while with that, pushing the button over and over to hear the song.
with everything packed up, I headed back out to the garage. Time to move all the cars out, so I can get into the attic. We took down the last safety gate in the living room right after Christmas. I decided to pack this up, too. Out with the cars, down with the steps, up with the decorations, back in with the cars, and done! When I got back into the house, Eric was running around fussing and playing. He has been moody lately, having little fits and such several times during the day. It seems like normal stuff for an almost-two-year-old.
Mommy already had dinner in the oven. Tonight…PIZZA! eric ate only two pieces of pizza this time, but he ate ranch dressing off of his celery stick for quite a while. the whole time, he kept saying, “yumm…yumm”. We were planning to call Grandma and Grandpa Deakin on the computer after dinner. the time was about right, 7:00pm, same as every Sunday. however, after all the pizza and ranch dressing, we decided that Eric needed his bath before the video call instead of after, as originally planned. I called Grandpa to let him know we would call a little later, since Eric needed a bath.
Bath time! Covered from ear to ear and chin to hair with pizza sauce and ranch dressing, Eric was definitely ready for a bath. Mommy filled the tub while Eric finished his dinner. Warm water, bubbles, soap, toys, splashing, rinsing! “Mommy, we’re ready for the towels!” Mommy always puts Eric’s towels in the dryer while he is in the bath. This way when he gets out, his towels are nice and warm. I wonder if Eric realizes how spoiled he is? Rub down with baby oil, dry the hair, new diaper, clean pajamas and socks. Now, we are ready for Grandma and Grandpa!
Eric is especially animated this week during the video call. With my new laptop, we are able to sit and play in the living room. Eric decides that he wants to play with his building blocks, so we dump them out and I proceed to build tall towers that Eric can knock down. He loves to knock over anything Daddybuilds. He laughs the whole time. Mommy gave a shot at building a tower. Eric knocked this down, too. Grandma and Grandma seemed to enjoy watching him play. Of course, Grandpa was encouraging Eric the whole time to knock over my towers, as if he needed any encouragement 🙂
After the video call, we sang and danced and laughed in the office with his music playing on the computer again. Time for “night night”! Eric is plenty tired after today. he lays down quietly and talks to his animals and pillow for a while before falling asleep.
Another weekend gone. I can’t wait for next weekend!