We made up for the mediocre day on Wednesday with an awesome day on Friday. I started off feeling a little sluggish still, but got better as the day went on. We got up and had breakfast with Tato and were all chatting about what birthday gift we should get for our nephew, Logan. Zak wanted to get him some cars or trains, and was listing off all the possibilities. Tato asked that, if we were shopping, could we also get a toy for him. Zak thought for a second and said, "Well, you have to be good first Tato. Let's see how your day goes." Surprised us both :-)
Zak and I headed up to Toys R Us, and for some strange reason they open up at 9:00 on every weekday, except Fridays...where they don't open until 9:30. It gave us a good excuse to head over to Graeters and have a muffin. We then headed back over to Toys R Us and spent an hour searching, selecting and reselecting something for Logan...and something for Zak too :-)
On the way home, Zak asked if we could go out for lunch somewhere, and wanted to invite Aunt Katie. He said he wanted a cheese coney, so we called up Aunt Katie, who unfortunately (or fortunately), doesn't like Skyline....it was cute because then Zak thought for a minute, and said, "Hmm, does Aunt Katie like McDonald's?"...and Aunt Katie, who was on speaker phone, said "Sure, she likes McDonald's." So we picked up Katie, went to McDonald's, where Zak proceeded to play on the playground, while Katie and I watched from the window (it was too cold for us)...and he didn't eat even one bite of his lunch.
We came home and Zak asked me to play "Garbage Trucks" with him. So for 30 minutes I laid out legos as if they were trash across the room, and he had the garbage truck come by and load them up to take to the dump.
Then, we laid down for a nap...perfect day for it. I fell asleep for 30 minutes, then got up and rearranged his toys a bit. He asked that his "car garage" be brought downstairs, so we moved all his other toys upstairs to make room for it. I also put a bunch out to give to goodwill. When he woke up, he surprisingly wanted to do some school work. I had bought him this Thomas the Train workbook, and we spent about 45 minutes doing the different exercises. The math pieces he's great at...he still doesn't like to write much though. So he always wants me to help guide his hand when he writes the numbers or letters. I'm sure he'll get it :-) By the way, we've also been doing homework for his school. So far, so good. They've been pretty easy so far. The last one was circle everything that begins with an F, and put an X through everything that doesn't. He did that very easily, although I can see a clear difference between his attitude and mine on it. He kind of sloppily puts a circle on it, can even be directly on the picture, not around it. I notice the girls in his class try to be very precise with their circles (me too). Should I care? The best part though was the 2nd part of the homework, where he had to guess a riddle (answer Firetruck), and then draw it. He got very excited about that...first drew a little boy, then a house around the boy, then fire in the house, then the fire truck (and police car) coming to rescue them. He was very deliberate about what he wanted to draw and how. He surprised me :-)
Anyway, it was a nice day after the rather mediocre day on Wednesday and the rather stressful day at work on Thursday.
Zak and I headed up to Toys R Us, and for some strange reason they open up at 9:00 on every weekday, except Fridays...where they don't open until 9:30. It gave us a good excuse to head over to Graeters and have a muffin. We then headed back over to Toys R Us and spent an hour searching, selecting and reselecting something for Logan...and something for Zak too :-)
On the way home, Zak asked if we could go out for lunch somewhere, and wanted to invite Aunt Katie. He said he wanted a cheese coney, so we called up Aunt Katie, who unfortunately (or fortunately), doesn't like Skyline....it was cute because then Zak thought for a minute, and said, "Hmm, does Aunt Katie like McDonald's?"...and Aunt Katie, who was on speaker phone, said "Sure, she likes McDonald's." So we picked up Katie, went to McDonald's, where Zak proceeded to play on the playground, while Katie and I watched from the window (it was too cold for us)...and he didn't eat even one bite of his lunch.
We came home and Zak asked me to play "Garbage Trucks" with him. So for 30 minutes I laid out legos as if they were trash across the room, and he had the garbage truck come by and load them up to take to the dump.
Then, we laid down for a nap...perfect day for it. I fell asleep for 30 minutes, then got up and rearranged his toys a bit. He asked that his "car garage" be brought downstairs, so we moved all his other toys upstairs to make room for it. I also put a bunch out to give to goodwill. When he woke up, he surprisingly wanted to do some school work. I had bought him this Thomas the Train workbook, and we spent about 45 minutes doing the different exercises. The math pieces he's great at...he still doesn't like to write much though. So he always wants me to help guide his hand when he writes the numbers or letters. I'm sure he'll get it :-) By the way, we've also been doing homework for his school. So far, so good. They've been pretty easy so far. The last one was circle everything that begins with an F, and put an X through everything that doesn't. He did that very easily, although I can see a clear difference between his attitude and mine on it. He kind of sloppily puts a circle on it, can even be directly on the picture, not around it. I notice the girls in his class try to be very precise with their circles (me too). Should I care? The best part though was the 2nd part of the homework, where he had to guess a riddle (answer Firetruck), and then draw it. He got very excited about that...first drew a little boy, then a house around the boy, then fire in the house, then the fire truck (and police car) coming to rescue them. He was very deliberate about what he wanted to draw and how. He surprised me :-)
Anyway, it was a nice day after the rather mediocre day on Wednesday and the rather stressful day at work on Thursday.
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