The Pajama Dilema

Tonight as Parker is putting on his pajamas, he starts asking for help as he does most night when he doesn't have something to hurry up for.  I encourage him to keep trying and do it himself, since he has before.  I know he can do it so I don't help.  He looks at me and says, "Mom you just don't understand me alright!"  I of course don't say anything yet, since I am still trying to comprehend what he just said and why.  He says, "alright mom?!" again.  I say, "ok," not really sure what to say to that.  Should I tell him I understand you more than anyone!  No I decided to just leave it at Ok and helped him get finished.  If only that was the end of the pj dilema.  He tells me they are too big for bubba.  Which is his new thing lately.  Telling me they are too big for brother which they are obviously cutting it close to being too small for Parker.  I'm guessing that is his way of saying they are too small?  He tugs at his pants a few times and they are bothering him, so I tell him to go get a different pair and change them.  Well here we go again, it begins again.  This time a little less fussing and only get his legs both stuck in one side once.  We finish that up just in time for him to start bawling about the missing blanket.  "There's you're sign," for those that have heard that before.  AKA Parker is ready for bed!  Time to search for the blanket and get this boy to bed ASAP. 

A Date with A Three Year Old

This week I decided I would take Parker on a date.  Stephen and Connor going to the NBA Thunder Basketball game in OKC so that shouldn't stop Parker and I from having a fun night.  I started brainstorming on what kinds of fun things you can do with a three year old on a date.  I am with him all day most days anyway so how could this be different.  I tried thinking of his favorite foods to eat out and a place we haven't been this week.  Chick-fil-A and Smashburger were out of question since we had already eaten there.  So I thought, how about breakfast.  We went to Mimi's.  They make some of the best breakfast (in my opinion).  Parker didn't care as long as they had pancakes.  He was soo excited.  Wishing I had a video of him saying pancakes, when telling me what he was going to eat. 

We arrived at Mimi's and of course he got his pancakes and orange juice.  He was super excited now.  Not to mention they also bring you a huge muffin, which I requested to be blueberry since that is also a fav. of his.  So now he is a happy little boy munching on breakfast for dinner.  Of course we couldn't go without the potty break right after our food arrived.  Like any good date, I escort my date to the restroom.  As I am helping get things going and finished up, I noticed that my date is going comando and has his pants are on backwards.  I guess before leaving the house he was a big boy, did his potty time, and got dressed.  Only partially.  I probably should have been a good mom and changed him there, but it wasn't bothering him and changing in the stall just didn't sound all that clean since we would be soon returning to our dinner.  We finished up our yummy dinner, I mean breakfast then off we were to our next destination.

We went to Barnes and Noble next.  I had a groupon to use that was about to expire so I figured we could incorporate that into our fun night.  I told him we were going to a book store, kind of like the library and he was excited about that.  We made it to the childrens section.  He made sure to play with each toy and bounce from here to there before we were able to sit and read a few books.  He was intrigued by all the fisher price/ baby toys.  If they made noise he played with it.  I felt semi bad for all the buttons he was pushing and noise they were making as he did it, but he was having fun and there wasn't anyone giving us the look yet.  We read a few books then decided it was getting late so we needed to head out if we wanted to make it for dessert.

As requested earlier in the day, we went to Peachwave.  By now it is 9:00 and I'm just hoping there are a couple more young children there to help with my bad mommy thoughts going on in my head for taking a three year old to Peachwave after 9.  Oh well, didn't last long.  Soon we were enjoying the tastyness that Peachwave has to offer.  It was very busy, but we still had fun and enjoyed our dessert.  My date spilt icecream down his clothes and as most do at that age, he decided to remind me that he was three.  As I wiped it off and tell him it was ok.  He is telling me it's not ok, it's not ok and giving me the look of this is not OK.  Finally after telling him we were going home to get cleaned up after he finished, he sat down to get his last few bites.  We finished up and headed home. 

While driving home, I decided to give him a recap of our date.  We talked about our dinner, the book store, and dessert.  After tell him about going to the book store, Parker said, "then we went to Peachwave, The End." 

My date was pretty well mannered, minus a few tantrums, laying in the booth at the restaurant, burping after explaining that your supposed to use good manners on a date and saying "what?," and having interesting choice of clothing style.  We had fun and hope to have many more date nights to come.

Cheesing it up with my cute date!

Parker's Giant Blueberry Muffin

As you can see, getting him to take a picture isn't so easy, hence the reason I only have three.