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In an effort to ease the blow of me heading in to work at 6:30pm Sunday night Daddy told Declan that I'd be leaving soon. He let Declan know he's be reading him his stories and puttin him to bed.

Declan told him he wanted me to stay home and for Daddy to go to work.

So as nice as this is for me it's a little disappointing for Daddy.

What he doesn't realize is how much Declan talks about him when he's alone with me. Or how any time Declan asks me a question I don't know the answer to he says "I bet Daddy knows."

He loves us both!

It's the cat he can do without.

My Little Person

Cracks me up when it's 11pm and I finally get around to looking at photos on my phone and I find a picture taken at 5:43am this morning.

Looks like someone took a photo when he was trying to watch Angry Bird Transformer videos on my phone this morning.

When it was time to leave for Kelly's Declan asks the same question he asks every morning when it's time to go "Are we going through the garage or the front door?"

"The garage."

"Awww man. I don't wanna go through the garage."

"I know Declan. Whichever I say you always want the other. I'm on to you."

Then when we step into the garage and open the door Declan realized we are going in my car.

"I wanna go in the white van!"

So I guess he was holding out hope for Gramma and Poppa waiting in the driveway to steal him away for another beach day.

Nope. It's a work day.

Declan had a good day at Kelly's though. He even got a frog sticker on his hand for trying to go pee in the toilet at Kelly's.

Serious baby steps with this one.

Port Elgin

Had a great day with my funny little man. Took a day trip with Gramma, Poppa, Nick and Jayme to Port Elgin. Declan finally got hours of sand time. For the first hour Declan would walk to the water to rinse his hands whe they got sandy. By the end of our time there he was laying in the sand, digging frantically with both hands and kicking up sand everywhere!

Declan loves the beach.

Hee-Yeah!

Spent the last 15 minutes before the Muffin Man's bedtime running around upstairs practicing to be SuperHeros and Transformers. We both got down on all fours and made truck noises. Then we both made a "chee-chew-chew-chew, chee-chew-chew" sound while we pretended to transform into robots. We also struck various fight poses while making tough "fight sounds" because we were "SuperHeros!!"

Little boy play is freakin' awesome!

No Need to Tell Him Twice...wait no that's not right...

Funny how you can tell the kid the same thing 20 times and he still doesn't get it.

Tell him ONCE this morning that in two days he would be going with Mommy, Gramma and Poppa to spend the day at the beach and it's one of the first things he tells Daddy about 8 hours later.

It's just so ridiculous, it's hilarious.

Boys Be Wild

Daddy-Declan Day!!

Today Daddy made a special trip to pick up a gift card he earned from work so the two of them could watch the movie Home. Declan kept asking him to see it this morning.

Declan loved it.

Perfect activity for a day that kept threatening rain. When I got home I had to run inside because of the downpour. As I opened the door Declan was standing inside laughing at me. He gave me a hug before turning to Daddy with his arms still open to complain that I made him wet. 

Not the welcome home I'd hoped for.

Then for the remainder of the evening Declan was pretty hyper. He gets all stereotypically "Boy" when he's with Daddy all day.

Which just reminds me of how lucky this kid is that we are both very present and involved.

My Best Little Man

We stated the day by making pancakes together. Declan was a great helper. We made enough for all three of us and of course Declan's were star shaped.

After that we got dressed so the two of us could go out for a couple hours while Daddy did some cleaning. When Declan realized where we were headed he said "oh man, not a tree park." Well he was correct but we went on a nice long hike to Hilton Falls and he seemed to enjoy the adventure of looking for the falls.

We had a good time, findings acorns, hearing birds and seeing funny shaped trees.

Declan did trip along the way and scraped up both of his little knees. Daddy cleaned them both up soon as we got home. We were both pretty beat after our hour and a half trek.

Just after Declan's nap time I was on the phone with Poppa making plans for this Thursday. I told him that I had a little boy just dying to play in the sand. From across the room Declan looks at me, points his finger and says firmly "I'm not dying." I laughed and laughed.

After dinner we were hanging in the backyard on a tarp. Declan wanted pictures so I got close, turned the screen to us and Declan took the photos. When we turned the phone back around so we could look at them he stopped at this photo...

and said "That's love."

He's good.

And then he gets better.

I was getting him dressed in his pjs when he looks right at me and says "you're the best Mom."

He got hugs.