I count yesterday as “day 1” with Kulia (aka The Rascal) ’cause I was technically alone with her from noon on – and that’s more than enough time.

Day 1 re-cap:

We went out to lunch with Papa-Mac and she gave him her Rascal look the whole time, when not smacking down the Mac-and-Cheese. Then she came home and take a 3 hour nap. We finished off the day with an Artie walk in which she rode in the stroller and yelled, “faster, faster!” whenever we went down a hill.

Day 2:

She slept in until 8am. My body couldn’t handle the extra sleeping time and I woke up at 7:15 (the Leina wake up time). I finally had to get up and eat at 7:30am. I’ll try and stay up extra tonight to enjoy the sleeping in more.

We snuggled all morning in bed watching cartoons 🙂 After 4 shows (her Daily allowance of TV) she finally asked if we could go play. For those of you interested there is a limit to her TV desires. I would have bet it was at least 8 shows. There’s some hope for her yet.

We played Batman and Baby Robin, hide and seek, then puzzles, puzzles, puzzles. She’s slowly figuring out how to turn the pieces to get them to “click” into place. She gets so excited when she does I just kept going and going and going with them.

Then we went shopping. My first single parent mistake. Instead of filling her with the required 10am snack I figured we’d just stop by the donut shop while we were out and about. Not a good decision. She was a terror by the time we got there and scarffed 3/4 of her donut and wanted another one. I didn’t want to put anymore sugar in her than necessary but if she was that hungry I figured we’d better get something more nutritious from the car. When I told her the donuts were all done and we’d go to the car for some more Tantrum child went into full meltdown. Ah, there’s nothing like a screaming child in a small store. The joy of parenting. Luckily she’s still small and I could pick her up without much fuss. By the time we walked around the block to the car my arm was getting very sore but she’d calmed down. I got some raisins and fishes into her and she was much better. Regardless we weren’t doing the Costco trip after that. It was home and some quiet time.

Lunch was easy – she didn’t eat much wonder why? But we did another Artie walk afterwards ’cause the pooch won’t get one tonight. She went down quietly but slowly and is in hour 2.5 of the nap and starting to rustle up.

Manny is sick so dinner was cancelled. It;ll be lasagna again for me – the 3rd meal in a row. Many thanks to my prescient wife for cooking me a delicious one before she left! We’re going to do a post-dinner Safeway run ’cause Costco was pushed off until tomorrow. You may ask why I really need to go to Costco and that’s because we’re down to our last 1/4 bag of nuggets. At this rate Kulia won’t have anything to eat on Monday. And I don’t want Tantrum Child II to appear. Wish me luck.