Having Fun

Sleep wise, he's not staying down long in the bed, just an hour. We'll see if it gets better. He is going right back down, so that's good. Unless I screw up getting him down the first time....

Wednesday we had a LONG and fun day. We left at 8:15 and did not return until 4:45!! We went to our gym class and had a great time as usual. Went to Target to pick up a couple things. I treated myself to some Starbucks so Carson got a treat of a nuts, raisins, and chocolate chips. Then we decided to go to Lewis Ginter. Such a pretty place. I had hoped he could take a nap before and tried nursing him in the back seat seeing as the drive didn't do it for him. No way, FAR too interested in being out of his seat. So we headed on in at 11:30 and went to the Tea House for lunch. Mmm! I had a brie and peach panini with green beans with feta and pine nuts. Carson had a kids meal of fried shrimp and fruit. We just pigged out! Carson had some brie and loved the pine nuts. He ate all his grapes and some of the cantaloupe. Just a nice place to eat, because you can eat outside, which is better with kids!

We wandered all over and they turned on the water part even though it was barely 70. Carson was cold but liked getting sprayed. We played in the sand box for awhile. The ODDEST thing. There was another boy there and we asked about ages and his birthday was the next day, then another little boy came and his birthday was almost the same day as Carson! An almost one, three and four year old! Birthdays all within a week of each other, no one else there! Funny! None of us locals either, long drives in.

Anyway, Carson played with the four-year-old a lot. He fed the boy's crocodile sand and this was fun. They shared toys and all that. Very cute to watch. The little guy kept chewing on toys and ate quite a bit of sand which Carson found hilarious. The older boy wanted to hug Carson goodbye, and he was cool with that.

We did have a great hike all over and got to see the new roses. Carson had to have his own fragrant diaper change among the roses. Blah! Hardly anyone was there, so no worries. I think there were just as many patrons as there were employees! Just not a busy day.

I tried to keep Carson up but there was just no way. He crashed HARD and slept for thirty minutes. I hoped he'd go down anyway, but no.

Today we had our nature class and it was about fish. But we actually WENT fishing! Whew! Very stressful for me. What with Carson on the edge of a dock, him not wanting to hold the pole with both hands, swinging it around almost getting it tangled, then other children swinging them around with barbed hooks! Eee! But I was very good and strung a grub and a worm. Not something I typically do, but hey, who else was going to do it? Carson & I took a break and got three more worms for the group.

The little bluegills were nibbling on our worm so I popped up the rod and caught one! Carson's hands were on it too so I imagine he was excited. I was a bit too excited myself, so wasn't studying him! Ha! He fell off though. Someone else caught one and Carson got to touch it. I might have a photo of that, will have to see.