Mama's Day Off

I think I need to do Mama's Day Off posts more often. They are great days and I love my special, alone time with Kaiden.

That being said, yesterday morning was challenging. The night before I stayed up until 2 a.m. finishing a book and not being able to fall asleep because I was having scary thoughts from the book. LOL. Yeah, mama needed coffee bad the next morning and didn't get any until 11. Needless to say my crankiness must have worn off on Kaiden, because he was a crank-butt too. =)

I finally convinced him to leave the house around 11. It took some convincing because he's obsessed with his toys right now. I reorganized them and put the door back on his changing table to "hide" the toys and he just thinks it's totally awesome. The boy loves a door, I'm telling ya.

Anyhoo, I told him I'd get him a new toy if he was good while I ran some errands and then we'd go see some animals (at our fav free animal conservatory b/c it is hot has heck out) and he obliged. I'm not a fan of the toy selection at Walmart, but since we were there, we took a look. I had about a $10 budget in mind and found a cool doctors kit and cash register that I thought he would choose from. He didn't seem too excited (like I was..lol) so we kept looking. Do you know what this boy picked?? A cell phone. He has like 5-7 of these things. He's obsessed. Bonus: it has Buzz Lightyear on it. =) He was in Heaven. He hugged that thing all day like it was his baby. The first thing he said when he woke up from his nap was "Where my buzz lightyear phone?"  ha!

And since I'm a book-lovin' mama, he got to pick out a book too. He picked an Old McDonald one and I picked out a kids First Bible one. He was running around saying "my Bible, my Bible!" Too cute. The rest of my errands took a bit and he was getting tired toward the end but still wanted to see the animals. I thought quick and asked him if we could go after his nap so dada could come. He agreed with that. =)

Turns out, they close at 4. Oops! Luckily our kid is easy going most days and settled for seeing a waterfall, throwing rocks and looking for bugs behind the conservatory instead. It was over 100 degrees, so we only stayed for about 20 minutes. He loved throwing rocks and I kept busy looking for bugs. We saw ants, a moth, a dragonfly, some butterflies, a spider and wasp. It's "Bug Month" at school, so I've decided to try and keep in stride with what he's learning. They had some cute flowers, so I decided to pop one in my hair. I swear the butterflies were trying to attack me, though. I'm a mama to a boy, so he thought it was funny. I try and do my part to entertain. ;-)

He was thrilled and sweaty but didn't want to leave. I enticed him with the promise of bubble time at home while I made dinner. This worked and we went home and enjoyed bubble time and dinner as a family. It was a great way to end our day!

I'm loving his hair right now.