Life Lessons at Fully Booked

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Adam started out this week with a bad cold and I’m ending it with the same one.  Hopefully we’ll all miraculously feel better by tomorrow and be able to enjoy the weekend.  Or maybe we’ll just have to stay home and cuddle in bed and watch Homeland. 

When Adam is sick it takes some imagination to fill the days.  We can’t go to the playground, gymboree or playgroups since I don’t want other babies to get sick too.

So….that leaves us with some time on our hands.

We spent some time dancing.  Adam was obsessed with the shadows!

Mid Dance move
 
We ate lots of watermelon! It’s our love of the week.
 
 
 
We took some long walks and saw this! What, Manila- you’re getting too cool for us! A pop up In-N-Out with a huge line?!
 
 
We whiled away some time in the supermarket looking for some new dinner ideas.  I wonder how exactly you’re supposed to cook pork face?

We bought a new mop which Adam proceeded to walk around with for the next three hours.  This boy really loves him some cleaning supplies.  Note to self, next time I need to amuse Adam for the day I’ll just buy him a feathered duster. That should buy me a couple days.
 
 
We ate some more watermelon
 
 
We looked out our window with a little help from our phone.
 
 
 

We spent a lot of time at the book store they have on our high street, Fully Booked.  This place is awesome and has a huge children’s section where Adam can run around and look at books.  It’s cool (temperature wise) so it’s a great place to go during the hottest time of the day, which here runs from about 10am to 5pm 🙂 

Adam spotted this group of girls there that LOVED him!  They collectively would say Aaaaaaaahhhhhh, every time he did anything.  Adam ate it up, he brought them books, tried to read their books and was flirting up a storm. 

It’s moments like these that I can picture Adam as an older boy, with his own relationships and interacting with people without my being involved.  It’s always a bittersweet moment when I think about how fleeting this time is that he needs me to be involved in every moment of his day.  He’s already having moments like these where I stand back and watch him interact on his own.

Some day he’ll be hanging out with his friends and he won’t need (or want) me there (tear).  But it’s also so exciting for me to think of him creating his own friendships and relationships, having a BFF (do boys have BFFs?), going on dates (not for another 14 years please Adam) and complaining to his friends about how annoying his mom is.

I read this recently and it really made me envision Adam as an older teenager, which right now seems like a million years away, but I’m sure will be here in a blink of an eye.  I guess every new stage is so different it’s scary at first and then you reach it and it’s over before you know it and you wish for it back.  Another reminder to try to enjoy each day as it comes. 

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-single-ladys-manual-for-parentteacher-night

 

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