It's been a very busy week. I'm glad it's over, but I don't think we're in for a slow down quite yet. Tuesday Cole had play group. It turned out to be just him and B~, the teacher's daughter. It went ok though. We finished up a little early so we headed to the Usborne book fair at school. We have a couple of Usborne books, but I don't think they are anything spectacular. They are nice books. Nice enough that I managed to spend $70 on 5 books. They had some really neat tractor and truck books, and heaven knows we can't have enough of those. The nice thing is that the school gets like 20% or something, so that made me feel better. I told Pat other than the couple of toys I had in mind for Tate, I am not allowed to buy the boys any more Christmas presents. I've gone overboard already and it's barely December.
Tuesday afternoon I took Tate to get his RSV shot. He weighed in at 13 lb, 14 oz, up a pound from his 4 month check up about 3 weeks ago. I think he's doing pretty good! I also made his 6 month appointment and decided to try out the pediatric nurse practitioner. Hopefully that will go well. He's been sleeping pretty well at night. He's unpredictable, but rarely up more than once at night. That, I can handle. Last night he slept until 6:40 this morning. The only bad part is that it really screws up my morning schedule, since I usually feed him at 8, before I leave for class.
Tuesday night we had an ECFE class. It started out with a music class for the kids and then we had a parent class on the book Say Yes to No. The parent part meant we had to separate. I don't have a problem with this, but Cole does, big time. I know he needs time with other kids without me there, he strongly disagreed. It took me a while to be able to leave, but I did eventually. He screamed at the door, but I figured he would calm down, and he did. He lasted just over a half an hour before they came to get me. I was impressed. The teacher said he did really well, but was getting harder and harder to distract so she told him they'd read a story and go find mommy. She didn't want him to get upset and then dread going to school.
Wednesday I headed to the cities with the boys. Pat had left earlier that morning for a retreat for the local elevator. They were going over their business plan and doing some brainstorming. We stayed at this fancy hotel and conference center. I was not impressed. The parking was incredibly inconvenient. Apparently having cars park anywhere near the hotel would mess up the look or something. The look was about all it had going for it. The room was your typical hotel room. Two regular beds, a desk, and a TV. The kicker was they wanted to charge $10 for high speed internet and they charged $20 for me to stay there. What hotel charges for internet anymore and isn't based on double occupancy for a 2 bed room??? Dumb. No comment card either. I would have let them know how stupid that was. Granted people don't go there to relax, they go for a conference, but still. I did get to hang out with some friends though. I met up with one college friend Wed. night for supper and my friend Cathy came up from Rochester to shop with me on Thursday.
I did manage to accomplish most of my Christmas shopping. I only have one person left and I know what I'm going to get. Today I wrapped everything up and tomorrow we are going to get our tree. We decided we would go cut a tree this year. We cut one the first year we were married, but the past 2 years we've bought one from Hy-Vee. I don't think we are going to take Tate along, but I think Cole will get a kick out of it. Santa is supposed to be there, and that makes me nervous. On our way home yesterday we stopped in Olivia. They happened to have their holiday parade and then Santa came to Pizza Ranch, where we were eating. We asked Cole if he wanted to go see Santa and he started crying. He doesn't even know who Santa is! I can't imagine he remembers last year. So I think we will be skipping Santa Day in town this year.
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