Drowning our sorrows

After a rough day of imperfect playdates, fights with the little brother, and timeouts for not being nice on the playdate/fighting with the little brother, I threw a teary, frustrated Jake in the car and I begrudgingly drove to the pool where he takes swimming lessons, just too lazy and frustrated to discipline any longer. For close to two hours we swam together. I taught him how to do a cannonball and dive in the deep end. We played tag in the shallow end (my glutes are killing me!). We floated on our backs together. We gave each other kisses under water. It was perfect, and the most fun I've had in so long.

Busy hands

Me: "Jake! Get in your car seat NOW!"
Jake: "I can't! My hands are busy picking my nose!"

Fair enough.

I spy...

Dave's work! I took a little walk at work this afternoon and when I looked out across the bay, I saw Dave's building! I knew we were close, and I knew we were both on odd campuses east of 101 in no-man's land, but this was a bit of a shock. Took this pic and texted it to him (along with "Hi.").

Monster truck fan

One day, I believe he'll marry a monster truck. (shhh... I got him Monster Jam box seats at an upcoming show with access to the pit crew party for his birthday! How pathetic is it that I'm kind of excited?)

Going on four

Only one more month with my three year old. I feel bad because I spent much of this year whining about the 'terrible threes' instead of enjoying it, as difficult as it was. Despite the crying, temper tantrums (including one that held passengers on an amusement park ride hostage and one that held an entire 737 from deboarding), the lack of "nice hands" at school, and that one time when he decided he'd walk to the playground himself if he wasn't going to take him... I'm blessed. And I'm not a religious person, but there's some sort of something bigger for me to have been given such a freaking amazing kid. Yeah, I feel blessed.

Sunday funday

We blew off our messy house, loads of laundry, and grocery shopping for a trip south to Gilroy Gardens (who needs Disneyland?) yesterday! Jake is so fun to go to these places with now... he gets it, and gets so excited! It's really adorable. Will, well he doesn't get it, but he was a trooper as his big brother dragged us all over the park. He even kept it classy when he conked out toward the end. ;)