A Summer day with E...

Technically it's not summer yet and this was not the first day schools been out, but it's the first full day home with E trying to keep him busy all by myself. The day started better than yesterday so that's a plus. E woke up asking about the same thing he went to bed requesting. Jump Street. He found an old video on his iPad and would not stop asking. By asking, I mean jumping up and down and touching blue and red things in the house. Wanting me to reply, yes we are going to jump street when it opens so you can jump in red and blue blocks. I called yesterday to see if they were busy for the summer yet. Most school are in session so I figured it would be a good time. It was only 8 at this point so I tried to engage him in a few other activities and then we went for a walk. After the walk, (E uses a special tomato stroller when we walk) we got ready to head to Jump Street. We got there at 10:15 and the place quickly filled up. We had not been in a while so his usual friends were not there. He made new ones quickly and I saw him get a helium balloon from one and let it go. Then upset it was up on the ceiling. I was asked several times how old he was and if we paid to be in certain areas. I explained to them we did and he will not tolerate a bracelet so they gave us a sticker and he's 8! The young workers were shocked at his age as he's pretty small weighing only 40 pounds and even more shocked when he darted off from spot to spot. E maneuvered the small crowd pretty well and I prayed he would not run into anyone. (He has already suffered 2 minor concussions). I saw a mom that knew us from PPCD. I was so happy to see her 5"2 son playing dodgeball with all the other kids. She looked so "put together" and pretty too. I was in my workout clothes very un-put together as I followed E around the building. I was dressed for my day! Ha ha. It was so nice to see a friendly face and have a table to leave the bag at. A sweet little boy came up and said Hi Emerson. He told me he went to school with E. I tried to get E to say Hello, but he was too busy rejoicing in the surroundings. We were there for 1 hour and E did not stop moving. He paused as the man filling up the dots ice cream machine left it open for a moment, but I told him to move along!!! I was very proud of E. I was able to get him to the car without a tantrum. I started talking about leaving 15 min early and that helped. It gave him time to run around and do everything one more time. One time I did not do that and it was a disaster leaving. I had to run a few drive through errands and E ate his lunch in the car. When we arrived home, E wanted to go immediately outside to play with water and dirt. No rest for the weary me... Outside we went for over an hour. When we came in I was trying to work after he ate a snack, but that did not last long. He watered the carpet in several places and finally able to get him to the bathtub. I know it was early, but he was dirty. After another defiant dump of water on the carpet bath time was over! That's right, bathed and in pjs by 4:30... Time for dinner! E is not a sit still kinda guy so meals are a challenge. I can fight with him and set a timer or just let play and eat. Today was a play and eat dinner. I told him it was time to play with toys or we were getting rid of some since he never played with them. He chose hex bugs. There were no less than 10 that needed a new battery which is the size of a small watch battery. I keep them on hand, but still a pain to change. Especially 10!!! Overall, really a pretty good day, but I am exhausted. Time for bed!