In Balance

I forgot about this picture, how cute is this?



That's Patrick with his cousins Vincent and Brandie. It was taken this weekend at a suprise birthday party for Patrick's godmother Danielle (she claims she is 29 again but we're not buying it!). Patrick adores all of his cousins and always looks forward to playing with "the kids". And "the kids" seem to adore him too, how lucky is that? :)

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie

This afternoon was a little grey and drizzly so we took Patrick for a ride on Caltrain. I keep meaning to take some videos of his little voice but I am so bad about the video camera, and he seems to clam up whenever it comes out anyways. So I got him in a short video on my digital camera, not realizing of course that I shouldn't hold the camera sideways. So hopefully this video post works, turn your screen, or your head, or just use your imagination :)

Maui On My Mind

We had an amazing trip and luckily Patrick seems to have completely forgiven us for leaving him for 6 days! :) The ukelele we brought back for him may have had a little to do with that! Here are a few pics from our trip, the first three are from a whale watching cruise we went on, we had a mama whale and a baby both breaching about 30 yards off the boat, it was so cool it gave me goose bumps! I didn't get pictures of them in the air together but I was still pretty pleased with the way they turned out. We also got to see some bottlenose dolphins.

Cupid

We're back from Hawaii! Patrick stayed with Nana and Papa for 6 days with only 1 or 2 big meltdowns (he kept asking for us and wanted to go home). I only cried once! :) I'll post some pictures this weekend.

Here are a few Valentine pictures I had taken of Patrick before we left. We were gone on Valentine's Day but Nana reports that Patrick enjoyed his prechool Valentine's party and a special trip to the San Francisco Zoo. Mommy and Daddy had a nice Valentine's Day complete with a whale watching cruise and a lovely dinner on the beach.

Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch

Patrick's quote of the day (said to me):

"Can we watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse honey?"

Jump Around

We had a nice little adventure this afternoon. I recently read about this new trampoline center that opened up nearby called Sky High Sports. It's basically a series of huge rooms with trampoline floors and walls. Perfect for burning off all of that almost 3 year old energy. So Patrick and I met some friends there for an hour of jumping. They had a fabulous time, burned off a bunch of energy, and will hopefully sleep in a little in the morning.

It's $9 for an hour of jumping. I highly recommend it. Can't wait to try it when I am not pregnant!

Random

I've been lazy with the blogging lately (um, and lazy about a lot of things, I'm officially in my third trimester so that is my excuse). But, this past weekend we did manage to take Patrick to the big dog show at the Cow Palace. Patrick was very excited at the idea of going to see lots of dogs, but in reality he was less than impressed. For a kid who smothers his own dogs with affection I thought it was an odd reaction. He seemed completely uninterested in the whole thing, and only showed a little interest in a few dogs, at one point asking if we could bring home a cute brindled French Bulldog. Patrick's favorite part of the day ended up being the Elmo cupcake we bought from a favorite bakery along the way home.



And a random mommy thought...all grocery stores should have these tiny carts. It makes shopping with a toddler much easier. So much easier in fact I will drive to the next town over and shop at the fancy grocery store just so Patrick can use one. A happy toddler is a happy mommy.


And finally, what happens when two 2-year olds make up their own game...

Sing A Song

Yesterday Patrick was sitting on the floor playing with some toys and singing quietly to himself. I couldn't figure out what he was singing, but he sang it over and over again. This is what I heard:

"Rambling, rambling, rambling, rambling, make a spider scream".

Huh?

I listened a bit more and figured out the melody, what he was actually singing was this:

"Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream".

Short Temper

This is how the mother of all temper tantrums ended yesterday....



He fell asleep while crying in front of the front door. It was about 6 pm and he was out for the rest of the night! I'm not even sure what triggered the crying, it had something to do with not being able to rescue his friend Calvin from the roof. Calvin was not on the roof, nor in need of rescue but Patrick has been a little obsessed with all things relating to firemen (even insisting that his name is not Patrick, but "Fireman Sam"). So there he was, passed out on the hardwood floor. I moved him to his room and managed to get him changed into pajamas and tuck him in. He woke up enough to protest but went right back to sleep and didn't wake up until this morning. VERY unusual for him to sleep that long. Hopefully things will be back to normal tomorrow. Two has been very tiring lately :(

Monkey Business

A little gem Patrick shared with me this afternoon...

"Momma, we don't have any monkeys in this house and that makes me sad. It hurts my feelings".