Eric has started playing computer games. Mommy convinced me to let him play some games by himself on the computer. Up until now, I just let him watch and point to things on the screen as we browsed some of the kid sites. We browsed to the NickJr website for kids, and Eric played the Max and Ruby hide and seek game. He has a little trouble with the mouse, since it is so much bigger than his little hand. Every time he tries to click the mouse button, the mouse moves. He is also clicking the right button frequently when trying to click the left button. This just confuses him when strange menus and other things pop up on the screen. Mommy and I are looking for a smaller kid-friendly mouse for him to use. Eric is having so much fun and feeling very independent with his new entertainment. Daddy supervises closely, especially since he still needs some guidance on how to use the mouse and when or where to click.
Mommy and Daddy went out of town this past weekend. I took a 4 day weekend from work to spend some time with Mommy and Eric. Eric spent Friday and Saturday night at Aunt Carol’s house with Uncle Rob and Tyler. He had so much fun. He was very happy to see us when we went to pick him up on Sunday afternoon, but he did not want to leave. He was stuck between a pillow and a soft place 🙂 Mommy and I bought Eric a new toy train while we were travelling. It is one of the wooden tracks with the magnetic-coupled cars. We bought it at an IKEA store. I opened it for Eric this afternoon, and he loves it! He played with it for hours until bed time. I had to nearly drag him kicking and screaming to take a bath. Eric normally loves to take a bath and rarely resists. He usually will drop whatever toy he is playing with and run to the bathroom at the first mention of a bath. But tonight, he really did not want to take a bath. Of course once in the bath, he settled down and had fun. After his bath was finished, straight to the train again! Chugga Chugga Choo Chooo!
This morning, I took Eric to the doctor to get his flu shot. Mommy had her own doctor appointment, so I took Eric. When I woke up this morning, it occurred to me that we had a conflict with transportation. Mommy’s car has a dead battery. We discovered this last Thursday night, but we had not been home to do anything about it. We left Friday morning and returned yesterday evening. The problem: Mommy needs to drive the Lincoln, but I also need to take Eric. Mommy can only drive an automatic transmission, so she could not take my Camaro. But the Lincoln has the car seat for Eric. I woke up this morning and immediately put the charger on Mommy’s car, but a couple hours later it was not showing any sign of taking a charge. So, I asked Eric if he wanted to ride in Daddy’s purple car. He said, “Yes!”, and he jumped up to go for the door. Okay, so this plan was going to work. I went outside and moved the car seat from the Lincoln into the Camaro. The cars were ready. We had just finished breakfast (Daddy made pancakes, of course!), so we started getting Eric dressed to go. He is getting very excited about riding in Daddy’s purple car. This is the first time he will get to ride in it. He talks about Daddy’s cars all the time! “Daddy’s purple car” (the Camaro), “Daddy’s orange car” (older Camaro), and “Daddy’s brown car!” (the Lincoln). The car seat fit nicely in the back seat on the passenger side. I moved the front passenger seat all the way forward to give him plenty of “kick room”. Eric talked about the purple car the whole time we were at the doctor’s office. He was really excited!
When we got back from the doctor, we took another look at Mommy’s car. The charger appeared to be working now. Apparently the battery needed to warm up a little before taking a charge. It had sat for almost 2 weeks with the headlight switch in the ON position. I had been driving the Camaro to work for some time, so Mommy had been driving the Lincoln, instead of her little Mazda. Anyway, Eric was eager to help, so I explained to him that we were fixing Mommy’s car, and we needed to see the green light on the charger. He said, “It is only yellow!” I agreed and explained that we needed to wait, and we could check it again later. So, we checked it frequently, and each time Eric would say, “It’s not green yet!” or “It’s only yellow!” After we checked a few times, he started reminding me to check it. “Let’s check Mommy’s car!”, he would say very enthusiastically, and we would both go over to check the charger lights. Most times I did not check them myself, I just asked him if it was fixed yet. “No, not yet. It’s not green! It’s yellow!” He is such a good helper!