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Outdoor Seating


Photo-A-Day #3458

I no longer get to sleep on Fridays. Allison is working and so I have Andrew for the day until Allison and Eva return from school. So I try to wear the kid out as much as possible on Friday so I can get a few moments of downtime and peace and quiet. I love the kid so much but he is non-stop when he is awake. So, my plan is to wear him down in the morning with Play Group and while it is still nice out we can go for walks in the woods or to a playground. Today we took a walk around Oak Knoll Audobon Sanctuary.

Our walk was a decent one. We walked out to the pond which was all covered in leaves and not very pond-like. We walked along some bridges and Andrew had fun running along them as quickly as he could. He jumped on little rocks and checked things out. He generally had fun and only asked me to pick him up and carry him a couple of times. I could tell he was tired.

We stopped at one spot that had a little teepee and some seats made out of logs and branches. We stopped there on the way out and the way back to share his snack. On the second time back through I set up my camera on the set that Andrew is in and took a timer shot of us.

Captured a Little Moment with Andrew

He slept for an hour and a half but I didn’t sleep while he slept. Always one more thing to do.

Luckily when Allison came home I got an hour nap in.

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Play Group With Dad

andy at Playgroup
Photo-A-Day #3450

One of the activities that I now do with Andrew is take him to Play Group. This is a once a week hour long session where he can play with other kids and also do some learning. It is a great way for him to blow off some steam and get a bit worn out. Usually he will sleep afterward, which he did but that sleep time was wasted because we were in the car the whole time. It was for good reason since we were picking up my sister, Tara from the airport. He actually wasn’t asleep the whole ride, he fell asleep 1 minute before we picked Tara up and woke up the moment we dropped her at my parents’ house. Then he was awake the rest of the day.

Andrew was a big help with making some cookies that I had to make for a recipe for a special post that is going up on the 22nd. Andrew is very helpful when he pours things into the mixer.