To the Trains

My goodbyes are from a distance, the bottle cuddle cut short. Since Kelly got a train table for the daycare Declan runs right to it soon as he gets there and I'm second fiddle. 

He's so happy and he still yells "goodbye" so I will try to appreciate how easily I can get out of there in the morning and try to not take it too personally.

Boys Rule

I don't know what all my guys get up to when they are alone together all day. Sure, I often get pictures but it never tells the whole story. At work today I get this picture:

Then I get a text story about how Daddy was holding a squirming Declan, then stepped down on a toy, lost his balance, turned and basically landed backwards on our ottoman, almost between it and the couch all while holding Declan securely. Declan stopped squirming.

Whew! That was a close one. I really wish I'd seen the whole thing go down.

Animal Cookie Nightmares

Daddy bought Declan a big bag of animal cookies. They are a huge hit. Declan picks them up and makes the animal walk around the outside of his plate. So adorable.

After a few minutes he is handing the plate back to us "done" he says.

Uhhmmmm.

He ate all the heads off.

Need I be worried?

Picture

I barely saw my Declan today. Gone before he woke and home only an hour before bed. Good thing Daddy sends me pictures when I'm gone.

Off To Grandma & Poppa's

I've been home with my little guy every morning this week. While amazing to have that much time with him I do think that it gets a bit morning for him. 

Bring in the Grandparents!

So this morning Declan and I trekked off to visit with Grandma and Poppa. He brought along his backpack of cars though he didn't need them. Instead he played with some old toys of mine that grandma had saved. He was pretty good. Poppa was impressed with how polite he is (Thank you Kelly for teaching him manners). It was a nice visit and a great break from the same old mornings all week.

Tonight Daddy told me about how Thursday evening Declan was walking around the place singing. While he couldn't figure out the tune he did say that is was a bunch of "la la la's" softly as he strolled around. Love it!

Orange

There he is with my two oranges. He can say orange. He can identify a rudimentary drawing of an orange (I can't draw) and holds the oranges up to it to show me. He likes to hold them and then walk around with them.

But Declan plan and simple will not eat them.

Won't even try.

I've got a picky eater on my hands.

No surprise here.

I'm assuming it's wrong to shove orange in your kids mouth so I won't. Plus let's be honest, he'd get me back one day.

For now I guess I'll have to be happy with his being friends with oranges and maybe I can convince him to eat his friends in the future. 

You know what I mean.

How He Gets Me

My Declan has a power over me that he just doesn't know. 

I can tell him no and rules are rules. I've wrestled him to the floor to change him when he resists but there is one way he gets me, one thing he can make me do even when I'm really not in the mood.

When Declan wants to be picked up, usually because there is something he wants to see or get at which is too high, what he does is stand as close to your legs as possible, wrap one arm around each of your leg and then he looks up at you while his chin is at your knees.

He is so friggin' cute.

That's it.

I pick him up.

His eyes get real big somehow and he just sucks you in.