while our weekend was full ... we did not get a chance to see nana this weekend. and, the truth is, nana contributes fully 50% of the photos (if not more) seen on this here blog.
so ... ipso fatso ... no pix.
we are sorry and will endeavor to do better. where have you heard that before?
and it is a shame ... because it's a weekend full of photo ops ... starting with saturday's outing to our local plaza for a haircut at the barbershop.
while it was not an unqualified success, it was our best outing to date. jack only started crying at the very end when they brought out the clippers for his sideburns and he only had to be appeased with two lollipops. the woman who did it was very good and for the most part, jack was brave and patient.
he was rewarded in the post-nap afternoon with a trip to the park (in the 100-degree+ heat index, ugh!) and then, mercifully, to the pool with mommy and daddy.
sunday brought another visit to the pool ... this one hosting jack's pal kylie. she and jack had a great time splashing in the baby pool and getting water dumped on them by kylie's dad.
the post-nap interval brought another steamy trip to the park and then playtime in the yard ... including basketball, golfball and bubbles. jack finished up with a huge dinner, a shower with daddy and a nice bedtime routine with mommy, including the first-time reading of "the bunnies are not in their beds," which jack quite enjoyed (let's hope it didn't give him any ideas!).
monday morning meant the start of roxana's vacation and, accordingly, jack's drop-off at day care. let's just day it didn't go as smoothly as hoped for. but, with any luck, he will have a good day and it will get better as the week progresses.
for the rest of the week, we'll feature jack's progress reports from day care. we were calling it school, but with the start of "real" nursery school looming in september, i don't want to make any negative associations with that word.
this morning i told jack he was at his work. "daddy went to work ... mommy's going to work ... and jack goes to work here, playing with all the fun toys and all the kids."
great. now i've made him hate work ... he'll still be living with us when he's thirty!! sometimes you can't win ... you screw them up eventually, somehow. at least we will be able to pinpoint it. it's the little things ...
The Miserable
6 years ago
Nursery school? Already? Good for Jack! We read Otto Goes to School by Todd Parr to the boys before they started nursery school and they loved it (the book and school)--and still do. I think Barnes & Noble has the back to school display up and has some books about starting preschool.
ReplyDeleteAlso, don't worry about screwing up Jack--he can tell it to his therapist when he's 30!