Don't Let Nic Drive the Bus

Nic loves busses as you may know if you have been reading this. He has little Tonka bus, a little wooden bus, an old animal cracker bus and so I got him a Playschool bus with 4 little passengers. I believe it originally had 6 passengers, but only 4 made the cut on the way to the consignment sale. It was $2 so I can't complain.

Nic was "driving" the bus around the living room last night and ran it smack into the coffee table. On impact one of the little passengers flew out and toppled across the floor.

"Oh No" I cried, "Nic one of your passengers got ejected from the bus"!

"Oh No" cries Nic and he runs over and grabs his toy ambulance and shoves the little passenger in the back!

"Yeah, you are going to save the little passenger"!

Then he rams the ambulance into the coffee table and ejects the little passenger out of the back.

Poor little bus passengers.

Evolution of Going Out

The other Thursday Ted and I had decided we needed to go out for dinner (Nic too) on Friday. So along comes Friday afternoon and it didn't quite go as planned and I got to thinking about how I used to go out when I was much younger and without a husband or child.

5pm - get done with work or classes and head to the gym.
6:30pm - grab something to eat and maybe a little nap.
8pm - hit the shower
9pm - dig through my closet and maybe a friend's closet for something to wear.
10pm - have friends over for a "pre-party".
11pm - head out and hope that we are not too early.
3pm - home and sleep

Now it goes more like this:

5pm - Nic napping
6pm - Ted gets home from work tired, Nic due to get up at any time. I have showered and decided that jeans and a T-shirt is just fine after looking through the other options.
6:15pm -
Ted: you still want to go out.
Me: I guess so, do you?
Ted: not really.
Me: me neither. Maybe we can just go grab pizza tomorrow afternoon.
Ted: that sounds good.
I head back upstairs to put on comfy pants.
8pm - all 3 of us are in bed ready for sleep.

We did go for pizza and playtime in the park on Saturday and I was a much better time!

Let's Get This Potty Started!

Nic has started using the potty!!! Now I know this isn't that exciting for non-parents or even parents of a child that isn't of potty training age, but it is to us.

The best thing has been that he stopped in the middle of a birthday party with all the other kids still playing and told me he had to potty. Seriously - he stopped playing - at someone else's house - and used their potty!

We are very excited!!!