Back to School

I feel like it was Friday afternoon 5 minutes ago!  I remember thinking, "Wow, this week started off slow and ended quickly.  The weekend is already here!" and now, the weekend is gone :(

On Saturday we all went to Little Rock for most of the day.  We did some shopping and worked on ideas for Collin's birthday party in less than a month!  More on all of that at another time.

Poor Collin is experiencing some anxiety lately when it comes to Mommy and Daddy.  Jarrod has been working a job that requires him to be gone at random hours.  When we get up in the morning or get home from daycare Collin has come to expect his Daddy to be here, but now he's occasionally at work.  Collin walks around asking for Daddy and usually spends the rest of the time a little bit fussy and clingy.  In the evenings, I can't leave him to go to another room without him running behind me.  He doesn't want to eat dinner at the table by his self while I clean the kitchen either; he will say, "Mommy sit" and pat the spot next to his at the table.  Sometimes he'll even try to lean out of his seat and pull my chair out for me!

So this weekend when it was all three of us, Collin wanted us to all be together, all the time.  At one point, Jarrod went into Gander Mountain and I took Collin into Mardel, right next door.  I just knew he would be excited to look at the toys, books and movies but he wasn't.  He lasted for a minute and started asking for Daddy and pointing to the door.  When we got back to Jarrod in Gander Mountain, I walked off for a minute and Jarrod said the whole time I was gone Collin was asking for me.  I'm not sure what to do to help him with this anxiety...

Yesterday, Jarrod had to work so Collin and I went to church by ourselves for the first time.  It wasn't a big deal to me for us to do that, but Collin just knew when I picked him up from the Nursery that his Daddy was down the hall.  He went running and was saying, "Daddy" while pointing down the hall.

We went home, had lunch and took a nap.  While I was working on lunch, Collin decided to play a game we have around here called Fake Sleep.  It requires you to fake sleep, and he decided to do it in the kitchen where he could keep an eye on me.




Fake sleeping with his "banky"



"Surprise! I'm not really asleep, Mommy!"

After naptime, we got up and had a snack and then headed up to Collin's daycare where it was Open House yesterday afternoon.  When I told him we were going to school to see Ms. Shannon he got all kinds of upset.  I had to tell him it was for fun and that I was going to go with him.  Even once we got there, he acted bashful and clingy.  Poor kid was all mixed up this weekend!

They had a bounce house and free sno-cones, so I took him to observe the bounce house (I'm pretty sure he's too little to try getting inside of one yet) and we got a Strawberry sno-cone.  I was feeling adventurous, but that quickly ended when I saw just how much of a mess an almost 2 year old can make with a red sno-cone! 

Red teeth, red lips and red on our white tennis shoes but a happy boy!

Thankfully, our Daddy was back home before dinner last night and here this morning with Collin before he left for daycare.  They love playing, reading, singing and dancing together and just over-all driving Mommy nutso together.  And Collin said an entire phrase this morning that involved his Daddy; "Daddy pee-pee".  Yep.



First Day of School @ Daycare 2012 - 26 days until he turns 2!