jack and i had a rockin road trip to the eug last week. we picked up liam and raven and had toddler heaven in the backseat with some dvds and travel packs of snacks and then jack and i went out to camp on evilcat's porch in the woods to celebrate snowball's birthday.
jack is a rad partier. he likes dancing and making fools out of the normally (somewhat) self-respecting boys/men who did a little baby-dancing of their own. wobbling around with their heads bobbing and their hands in fists by their heads. i love what children do to people. little z was a charmer, hugging jack and demanding that he bring her things. just the exact sort of friend his highness needs.
now we are back and t is at a conference in some god-awful town elsewhere in washington. i don't really know anything about any of the towns outside of seattle (with the exception of olympia, but my knowledge of that place is pretty much limited to the evergreen campus and a dock where my father used to live).
we miss t. jack signs for dada every few hours and runs to the window to watch for him along with the dogs. we will all be thrilled when he gets home, i'll be running away to hide in my room and nurse my wounds as jack has decided that biting is the best way to let me know he is tired/hungry/cranky/wanting down/up/in need of a hug/really enthusiastic about my choice of music/etc. luckily he bites mostly on my tattoo arm so i can still wear short sleeves without anyone seeing the tiny teeth marks.
not that there is really the option to wear short sleeves as the weather here is f-ing awful. i get so excited when the sun comes out and then these rainy days are twice as devastating.
in any case, we are still managing to venture out, yesterday we took a sunset walk up the street to get ice cream and i shared it with jack while he rode in the ergo. he was pretty happy strapped to my back, smiling face covered in ice cream. today was starting to look pretty nasty when i lay down for a nap just in time for him to have an early wake-up from his nap, leaving both of us tired and cranky. i tried coloring, cartoons, snacks, juice, dog-wrestling. finally i just strapped him to my back and we ran some errands and when he decided he wanted to walk, i took a deep breath and let him walk. and shockingly, it went well. he walked all the way home from the library and we stopped at the pub for some chicken strips (for him) and a beer (for me) and he behaved exactly like the quiet, entertained, charming little toddler that you always hope to have when you take a toddler into a restaurant. people didn't realize there was a baby in the bar until i went to pay the tab. it was a miracle.
it was also a miracle that i remembered to feed the dogs this evening. the poor things. sidney is getting picked up tomorrow to move to his new pad in portland. he will be so happy. i'm trying not to think about how jack will react, but i have explained the situation to him a couple of times and i am hoping that part of that makes sense to him. we'll see.
now some pictures.
jack learned to hike a football.. sort of
on a sunny day at the beach.
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