Happy boy

In cannot believe how darn cute this little guy is.  When I wake him up from his naps, he always gives me a huge smile!  It makes me so happy to know that he recognizes me and is happy to see me even though I woke him up.  I love to talk to him and call him my cute little boy and tell him how much I love him.  He then gives me huge smiles and sometimes a laugh.  After that he does a superman stretch and I love to tickle his sides.  He gets a kick out of that also.

I love him so much! Yes, sometimes he is a stinker and drives me up the wall, but I love his smile and laughter and how he is so happy most of the time!

Who wants to go for walkies?

                                

Today was an absolutely beautiful day in Michigan.  So sunny and warm.  Since we have been stuck inside for what seems like 6 months, I decided to take Jake and Lily for a walk.  Plus my sister signed me up for a 5k in May, and I am so out of shape it's depressing.  We went to a small park 2 minutes away and it was empty.  Lily is not so good in new places or situations so it was good no one was there to make her freak out.  We walked for about a 1/2 hour and I was dying.  My legs were itchy and my heart was racing.  Apparently I need to exercise more.......  But we all had fun and got some vitamin D!!

               Ready to go, not so happy to be in his car seat

           

                       Peekaboo

                 Lily leading the way

Family fun Sunday

Today my brother and his wife and my sister and her dogs came to our house for a visit.  My parents are vacationing and I think my brother and SIL are lonely.  They watched Jake for us yesterday so we could get our shopping done for the week, and then wanted to hang out today.  My sister was bored up at State and her roommate was busy so she decided to hang out with us.  

  

                                   

My brother bought us pizza and breadsticks, and we watched Thor 2.  We had a great time dispite the fact that Jake was super fussy the whole time.  I am glad we could all hang out.  We rarely see each other because all our schedules never match up.   Thanks for hanging out guys!!!!

Mini me

Yesterday was finally a beautiful day!  It was bright and sunny and 60 degrees.  While Jake slept, Lily and I sat outside and soaked up the rays.  When Dan got home we strapped Jake in the Baby Bjorn( he reminded me of mini me from Austin Powers and I couldn't stop laughing) and went of a walk around our yard.

                               Mini me!

We have 5 acres and walk about a mile.  Jake was cooing and talking and loving it, while Lily had to sniff everything and roll on the ground.  I think spring has finally sprung here after 5 months of terrible snow and fridgid cold.  Today is 30s and raining so no walk today.  Boooo

                    Ready to go!!

My first day of vacation

Wow, I am so bored...  I am used to working and being busy.  I don't know what to do with myself.  I spent lots of time with Jake, playing, talking, and hanging out together.  We also went and got Chinese food for lunch and then watched Percy Jackson 2.  Now Jake is taking a nap and I am staring at the walls.  Lily and I did play frisbee and I made dinner, but now I have nothing left to do.  I could do laundry or pick up the house, but who wants to do that... Not me!

Such a cute smile.

So frustrated

so the girls who come to the house I nanny for, to help Gavin with therapy, are driving me insane.  They are suppose to arrive at a certain time, take 10 minutes to set up, work with him for 2 hours, then take 10 minutes to clean up and leave.  Do they do that? NOPE, NOPE, NOPE.  It takes them over 30 minutes most days to set up, which cuts into his therapy time, then they bring him down to me 10 minutes before they should.  So basically he's only getting an hours worth instead of 2.  It makes me so mad.   This is their job and they are so lazy, and don't want to work so they waste as much time as possible.

Today they arrived at 12:30 and didn't take him up til 1 freaking 45.  What the hell are they doing up there for so freaking long?  To top it all off, his session ends at 2:10, so what time do you think he came down....... That's right, 2:10.  They didn't even make up the time he lost out on.  Grrrrrrrrr

I was raised to work hard.  You are being paid for this job, you have to potential to change a kids life, and your wasting it by talking with your coworkers. JERKS.  

Blah

Not much is new here.  The family I nanny for is leaving for vacation for 2 weeks.  I am happy for a break and spend time with Jake, but it also means I won't have an income for 2 weeks.  I plan on. I siting my sister at school a couple of times, but mostly I plan to stay at home and not spend my money.  I have a list of movies I need to watch so I will probably do that!

My dad's bday was last weekend so my family came to our house and celebrated.  We bought everyone gyros from the best place in Michigan, and watched the Croods.  We had banana, peanut butter cake for dessert and opened his gifts.  We got him a solar light in the shape of a tractor, my sister got him an iPod Dock for his bike, and my brother got him headphones for his tractor.  We kicked everyone out at 7:30 so I could put Jake to bed and not throw off his routine.  They grumbled and made fun of me, but I don't care.  No way am I messing up my perfect system.

Here's the tractor light with an iPad mini for scale.

Cute huh?