Of all the many things I should be doing to prepare for the new arrival in a few months, one of the most important is finding more time to spend with the kidlet.  I can only imagine it will be rough for him to adjust to suddenly sharing mom and dad’s attention once his sibling arrives; extra time now won’t make it any easier, but I still want to cherish those moments that we have now, while we can.  To that end I cut back one of his days at his Learning Tree preschool class. 

Last week we hit the zoo; this week the Kidlet asked to go to the Children’s Museum.  We went right when they opened.  It’s a great place, with lots of different areas to explore and lots of things to learn, but it gets ridiculous when it gets crowded.  Especially so on weekdays, when its mostly younger kids, 2ish seemed to be the norm.  Nothing is as much fun to a five year old as kids half your age grabbing your blocks/trains/magnets/dressup clothes, etc out of your hands!  And there are always a few parents who are terrible at monitorring thier children.  The *place* might be safe for your kid, mister, but when your 2 year old tries to take something that my child already has in his hands, and then starts hitting him when he fails, don’t be shocked that my five year old (my giant 5 year old, who towers a head above every other kid in his class) can hit a lot harder.   Of course I was right there, and didn’t let the kidlet retaliate physically (though I was tempted since the brat was a problem repeatedly in multiple areas.  We kept leaving to find something new, and they kept showing up after us).

I packed us a nice little bento box snack.  I forgot to get a picture, but I put in a row of folded pepperoni, some sugar snap peas and stars cut of of zucchini discs, and a little mayo cup shaped like a car with ranch dressing.  The side dish had cottage cheese over diced tomatoes.

I’m not sure what we’ll do next week; I’m sure he will think of something! 😉


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