a day without the girls

Today was the girls' first day of homeschool co-op classes. Lauren's little sister, Reegan, went last year to this particular one, so it came highly recommended by her family and the girls were excited to get to go to school with a friend. That left me at home with the baby for the day. He definitely does NOT like being an only child! :) He was mopey all morning and would often look up and remember that no sisters were around to play with and would burst into tears and say very sadly, "byebye!" and ask where his sister was. He required lots of extra hugs and kisses and cuddles, which is most definitely one of the perks of my job!! :) Here's just a little bit of how our morning went...

For some reason, underneath the kitchen table was the play spot of choice today. :) A perfect little hiding spot, just his size! :)

Trying to climb back out proved to be a bit more tricky since he wanted to stand up, but couldn't. :)

The toy of choice today was this stethescope. He used it as a "so" (phone). We both got lots of phone calls on it as he kept holding it up to my ear and then his. :) I wish I had a video camera so I could have gotten him "talking" on the phone.


While he was playing on the "phone", I took a minute to check email and a friend's blog page. He likes to sit next to me whenever I happen to be on the computer during the day and when my friend's page popped up, he got very excited about their picture. He got very close so he could see better and said, "Daddy! Hey daddy!" (He calls all grown men daddy at the moment.) Then he pointed out the "babies" and waved and said hi and hey to everyone in the picture. :)

Yay! The best part of the day! His sisters come home! :) We brought Reegan back with us for a couple hours as well. When we went to pick them up, he kept calling out his oldest sister's name in a questioning voice as if to say, ok, where are you??? (My middle child's name is a little bit harder to pronounce.)

Showing off their big kid backpacks. They had a great first day of their new co-op school and we just got our table and chairs for our own homeschool and my oldest almost cried when I was getting ready to leave because she wanted to do more school right then! :) We'll see how long that eagerness lasts....hopefully a lot longer than I think! :}