Well, as the title suggests, the Peanut and I both have colds. Though his nose was only drippy for a day, and I'm a few days behind him, so hopefully it'll all be done and over with soon. He's hopefully taking a train nap right now with Mr Veggie, I'm enjoying my DayQuil and doing a few things. What's going on with the 'Nut, hmmm. He's been loving to sing Twinkle Twinkle and Old MacDonald lately. We're getting him to switch who he sings Happy Birthday to. He's been insistent on waking up before 7AM, though I guess it's a give and a take, would I rather him take forever to fall asleep or wake up a bit early.
I've gotten up to the Texas trip for the scrapbook. I'm soooo far behind, I wanted to be caught up for his birthday. Which is one month from today.
HAPPY 35 MONTHS BUDDY! Holy cow he's about to be 3. He's a happy active loving kid. He's acting his age - with his rambunctiousness, he's limit-testing, his love of the word no. Which I still don't mind. Yeah, he's getting harder to fool. It's getting harder to bypass that 'NO!' But it's just forcing me to be more clever. We now offer him to take a shower in our tub or the hall tub. Getting to choose which fools him to start bedtime. Not sure what we'll do when that stops working, but we'll figure it out. Or maybe he'll finally stop resisting everything and enjoy the idea of taking a bath instead of just enjoying it after the fact.
Well that actually won't work anymore, noticed some water damage from underneath the hall tub. GREEEEEEEEEEAT! Especially when we've already committed to getting our windows replaced. He didn't want to listen to stories tonight. but he also didn't want us to not read. So in the end we just turned off the light, and softly talked to him till he calmed down. And he actually went to sleep, so it all worked out.
Well, regardless, tomorrow I have to make Mr Veggie's birthday cake. It's a special one, it needs to be cooked tomorrow and cooled overnight. It'll be half cake and half flan.
It's my birthday weekend, we decided to kick things off with a trip down to Mtown. Peanut climbed into bed with us around 6, then we all snoozed a bit till 730. A half hour later then I wanted, but ah well. We drove down there, he was pretty good in the car, then walked up to the farmer's market.
He spent a lot of his time with Mr Veggie in the grass as I tried to scope out the funny vegetables for the best prices. Picked up a GF hazelnut brownie for us to snack on and some cheese curds.
Mmmm. Cheese curds. Be still my heart.
Then Mr Veggie had to open his big mouth and mention there was a train track just a few blocks away, and we had to go that way. Though there was Indian Independence festival happening, Peanut plunked his butt down on the sidewalk and watched them dance to the music. The train tracks were rather anti-climatic, but the view of the lake was really nice.
We headed back to the market, picked up some GF bread items, dragon tongue beans, a giant globular eggplant, some swiss chard and oyster mushrooms. Also found some sweet smoked trout (absolutely delish, I devoured that today).
There are a lot of honey vendors there too, and one of them had brought a bunch of bees, which fascinated Peanut. We bought him a honey stick, which we all ended up enjoying, and got him to say 'Bees make honey.'
We were running late though, I always forget how long it takes to make it through the market with a 2 year old, especially with a train track detour. So we decided to skip going to the children's museum, we ate the rest of our curds and some of our bread in the grass.
Took off for the car for a nice little nap. The heat was doing me in so him and I both took a nap while Mr Veggie drove around town, tracked down our dinner location then cruised around. After about an hour Peanut woke up and we headed down to the zoo.
Last time we were there the seal was his favorite. What would win this time?? Another water animal? The giraffe? Maybe something unexpected?
Whoever said otter raise your hand! He absolutely loved those. He still liked the seals, and the fish were neat. Really it was all the water animals that captivated him. We'll have to take him to an aquarium. There's a few options, though the best option is quite a drive away. Maybe this winter, since it doesn't have to be nice to hit those up.
We just missed going for a train ride, which infuriated him, but the attendant was nice and let us get a picture before she closed up shop.
I also got some goat pictures and videos. Every August since he was born he's fed the goats. My calendar next year is going to be just him feeding goats. I should have Aunt K get Baby E to feed a goat somehow this month. Or a picture with him and a goat.
We'll see.
We went to a restaurant afterwards. I think Mr Veggie and I will have to take a day to ourselves next spring, maybe go back. That place was good and had so much potential, but Peanut could not settle and only wanted to eat toast. Which is why we never go to restaurants with him :D
Today we had a chillax day. He spent some time at Meemaw's and Papa's while we stayed home and did some household stuff, cleaning, some painting, got a little nap in as he didn't sleep great and woke up early. What I had WANTED to do was go mini-golfing, but I guess the place closed down. Super duper sad. I need to find a place we can go to next summer as I bet Peanut will be up to it. We all helped with dinner at Meemaw's, I chopped and diced most of the veg for dinner, and then made the dragon tongue beans. Mr Veggie helped by keeping Peanut occupied :D He did a good job eating, chowing down on rice and Papa's meatballs.
Tooth come out! Just come out all ready! We're all tired of your relentless advance.
Let's hope he's not completely wearing out the teachers today.
But at least we managed to have some fun this weekend, nothing like the Children's museum to keep us all happy. Slides, blocks, more slides, cows, trains, water table, etc etc etc. He had a blast, even Uncle B looked like he had some fun at the end :D
What are some new things he's doing... he's been saying 'Mine!' which is adorable, and 'come mama!' which I love.
He's also telling the kitties to go away. Yeah, he doesn't like them curling up on him.
Well, Baby E went back home to Texas :( Peanut's all riled up about everything, he's been combative and testing his limits. From hitting/headbanging us to knocking food off the table to ripping apart my plants... it's been a treat being his mom the last few days. It's just a phase, it's just a phase, maybe it's just teething enduced, I dunno, but the fabled last tooth needs to finish erupting and just be done. Like now.
Our food situation is also way wacked out right now. We've got me, focusing on losing weight while gluten free, so reducing carbs seems like the best (and historically efficent) way to go about it. We've got the 'Nut, picky gluten free, and Mr Veggie(I feel calling him Daddy confuses things a little, trying a new nickname on for size), always throwing the wrench in with his vegetarian ways.
Breakfast is generally fend for yourself. Today Peanut decided to throw his cereal on the floor. Bugger.
Monday:
Me
Mr Veggie
Peanut
Lunch:
Jalapeno Poppers (no breading)
-work-
Pizza (his choice)
Dinner:
Stirfry, no rice noodles
Stirfry, no meat
Stirfry (blended up veggies mixed with meat)
Tuesday:
Lunch
Tacos, no shell, no beans
Tacos, no meat
-school-
Dinner:
Improvised Huevos Rancheros with leftover tacos
-work-
Leftovers, however he'll eat it
Wednesday (work day):
Lunch
Cream Cheese Wraps, stuffed with a shrimp salad
-fend for himself-
-school-
Dinner:
Egg salad w/bacon in lettuce wrap
Egg salad on bread, fruit side
Egg salad on bread, fruit and bacon
Why yes that is a... super nintendo train.
Then Thursday I can go grocery shopping again and make a new plan! I'll be ok for lunch, I'll be the only one home again and I'll have the rest of the shrimp that didn't go into Wednesday's lunch, I'll do some thai seasoning on that or something.
The 'Nut woke up and fell back asleep. Precious boy better not pee in the bed due to the long nap. Maaaan, can I turn a sweet thing into a negative thing like nobody's business! I'll try to think more positive, and maybe in turn he won't slap me silly when I get him up. Like he did this morning. Then crawled away and hid in the craft room.
Plans for the rest of the day? Mr Veggie will be home around 530. I think we'll play some 'pretend to be animal' games, sing a few songs, I haven't watched Jeopardy in awhile so I want to do that too. Hopefully Mr Veggie will take him out for a bit tonight too, I want to do some cleaning. I'll see if I can't get Peanut to help me clean too. I have some reservations about it, sometimes he is super helpful, but with his mood lately... I'm afraid he'll just throw everything on the ground and run away. I could also put him out on the deck and clean the kitchen. Actually I might do that, then we both get what we want.
HAPPY 35 MONTHS BUDDY! Holy cow he's about to be 3. He's a happy active loving kid. He's acting his age - with his rambunctiousness, he's limit-testing, his love of the word no. Which I still don't mind. Yeah, he's getting harder to fool. It's getting harder to bypass that 'NO!' But it's just forcing me to be more clever. We now offer him to take a shower in our tub or the hall tub. Getting to choose which fools him to start bedtime. Not sure what we'll do when that stops working, but we'll figure it out. Or maybe he'll finally stop resisting everything and enjoy the idea of taking a bath instead of just enjoying it after the fact.
