FOUR DAYS SINCE MOM'S BEEN GONE
11/02/14 22:38
Conor and I have been testing the limits of father and son while mom’s been away on vacation to see her sister’s family and new baby. Taking care of the boy on my own has been fun and challenging. He’s been a lot of fun and because he can talk so well, we can have conversations but still, they’re limited.
Just like when mom was home, we play with the wooden Thomas train set every night. We bought some additional knock-off train tracks this weekend at Toys R Us to make more complicated set-ups. Every night we create a new set-up.
Swimming lessons at the Y are on Sunday mornings so we did that and we stayed in the pool for a whole hour. Hallelujuh for the YMCA. An hour. Did I say we got to spend an hour in the pool playing? Because for that hour he wasn’t asking to watch a movie. A movie. Daddy, I want to watch a movie. Which is the same as other kids saying they want to watch TV. Except we don’t watch TV. We have netflix and we watch it on the TV or the iPad. So he just says, ‘movie’.
As an only child so far, Dad is Conor’s best play friend so he wants me to sit with him and play trains. Which is fine for about 15-20 minutes, but 45 minutes is a tad long for dad to sit and play trains.
Conor also doesn’t like going to sleep. I pick him up at 5:15 and we come home and eat immediately. He’s hungry as a horse when we get home and last night he ate 2 hotdogs (with bun), 2 yogurts, 3 strawberries and a bowl of cereal. I know, it’s not nutritional but hey, it’s father and son, so pipe down. After that, we play with trains for 45 minutes. After that, it’s time to get into pjs, brush teeth and read 2 stories and go to bed. Well, that’s the plan. But at 7:30, he’s not ready for bed. at 8:30, we’re still reading stories. at 9:30, I’m over it and Conor is running around wanting milk, water, cereal, etc… anything but bed. By 10pm, I’m ready to chain him to the bed but he’s too cute for that so I just ignore him and mutter, “bed.” Eventually, I fall asleep or he does. Or both of us do.
My wife called last night and said I looked tired. Is the pope Catholic?
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