All play and no work!

Being a stay-at-home mom is a busy job and there are very few days when we abandon the “to-do” list and just have fun! Yesterday was one of those days! Ricardo needed the car so Diego and I did things that we wouldn’t usually do on any given week day. After breakfast we walked to Barnes & Noble (about a 15-minute walk) to read and play with the choo-choos. Diego loves their train table and could spend an entire day playing with it. I picked up some Baby Name books and browsed through them while Diego played for over an hour – it was great! We came home for lunch and a quick nap (he’s only been sleeping for an hour lately) and then headed to the pool, in the “moto,” of course. I lathered him with sun block and we dove in. We had a blast splashing around and playing our fun pool games. Even with a thick layer of sun block, I don’t like to keep him in the sun for long so we only stayed for about 25 minutes and headed back home. He had a nice long bath, I had a shower and we were out the door again. We walked to the mall to have ice cream and play on the cars there. They rent out little shopping cart push-cars, but Diego loves sitting in them and playing with the steering wheel. We shared a strawberry ice cream and then he played in one of the cars for at least 20 minutes. He waved “hi” to all the people going by, he called out to the babies, he laughed with the big kids walking by and he thought he was hot stuff, sitting there in his very own car.
It felt like a true summer day. It was nice to get into slow gear and spend the day laughing, playing, having fun, exploring and enjoying the beautiful weather.