Jonathan Day 141

Today Da Da worked in the basement and I was on JH duty.  That child wore me out!  I kept him on the every 30 minute potty plan and he "produced" on each visit.  He wore underwear all day and didn't even dribble in them once.  We watched his Leap Frog DVD about a family of frogs working at an alphabet factory.  I kept singing all those damn songs in my head all day long!

Da Da came up after lunch and JH was already down for his nap.  I made him chicken strips (not processed but fresh) and carrots and he would not eat the chicken at all.  He cried and cried and finally I let him spit it out, but told him he wouldn't get any lunch if he did, and he did.

We had about an hour of quiet while he laid in his room chatting and singing.  Funny that when we have time away from JH we just sit and vegetate.  We decided we really need to find a day care or a way to get some time away from JH.  We love him desperately but never get a chance to miss him.  There have only been a few times that Jo has stayed with him and we have been able to go to dinner or do some shopping.  Does that sound bad that we need time away?  It's been 141 days with only about 6 hours apart!!

This morning I got up with him first and went in to get his Banana and he said "Banana, B A N A "  Because every morning we say would you like your Banana and spell B A N A N A.  It 's moments like that where I think our time with him is really doing something for his development.  I also think he needs to be around other kids so he learns to play with others.

We drove to St Joe to get JH a new Christmas sweater for his visit to Gramma and Grandpa's house next weekend.  We hope the weather is good enough for us to make the 5+ hour drive. We're under a winter storm warning for the next few days.  Looking at the 10 day forecast it doesn't look good, but that could change!