Can't Sit Still

I know I should expect that A doesn't want to sit still, but don't hate me for trying. Two weeks in a row now I've taken him to a story time - last week with Elmo and this week for a Curious George book. 

He did a lot better this week, but clearly he would rather play with a train set or look for choo choo books than listen. Oh well...he still got a reward because I'm a sucker (as if we don't have enough books for him...but in my defense, he only had 1 book about trains!)

Watching Elmo from a distance.

Carrying his new set of Thomas the train books to the register at B&N

QT with Pop and Maga

The bad thing about traveling is that I miss time with my favorite little man. But I wanted to keep my career, and my husband and I tackle parenting like the good team that we are :)

The good thing is that usually we plan to have family visit when one of us is gone. It's not that we can't handle things alone of course, but why not let A spend time with the grandparents instead of missing Mom or Dad? 

Well Pop and Maga (Gamma gets confused coming out) are visiting now, and boy, has he had a good time. The wether was unbelievable this past weekend so we got outside and got some great photos too :)

Safety first

A has gotten a lot better about wearing hats. We really worked on this all summer, so he knows that outside means hat time. This is carrying over to our bike rides when he has to wear his "special hat." And A enforces mommy wearing her hat on these rodes too! Obviously he's channeling his inner DaDoc on this one :)

But to take his blog a little off its normal course for a moment, what angers is me is all this are the people out there telling me how to keep my kid safe. By doing this blog, some people may think I'm sharing too much, others probably think I post too much on Facebook. 

So I ask, at what point do you stop? At what point do I become that overprotective parent? And at what age does it stop? I know I'm on a soap box, but I just feel like, with everything else about pregnancy and parenthood, people always have an opinion and us parents are left feeling bad from all the decisions we make. 

So here it is...everything we do is for our kids and is our best attempt to keep them safe ALL the time. And part of that is sharing his joys and laughs with family...and the Internet just happens to be a great a venue for that. So parents out there, you're doing a great job and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.