It hit me yesterday how much I miss my
one-on-one time with Lex sometimes. I miss our breakfast
routine and I miss going places with just him. Maybe I’ll have
to try and arrange an outing with just him soon. We went to the
farmers market yesterday. It was so nice. He played in the
fountain and at the little playground. Then we walked around
the booths and bought a cookie and some lemonade and sat down
to watch a guy playing the fiddle. It was really nice. Then Eve
woke up (as expected) and was hungry (also as expected) and
that was the end of our nice afternoon. I tried to get Lex to
stay in one place for awhile, explaining that Eve needed to eat
and it was dangerous for him to run away from me. The farmers
market is in a lovely little park which happens to be right in
the middle of a traffic circle – not the safest of places to
let a kid roam. Not surprisingly, he wouldn’t stay in one area
(we tried the fountain and the playground both and he kept
running away) so I ended up carrying him, kicking and crying,
back to the car and Eve cried on the way home because she was
still hungry. Kind of a crappy ending to a nice afternoon.
Nobody’s fault, of course, just life with two little ones, I
guess.

I had a nice evening with her later though. Lex
was long asleep and Eve was wide awake, talking and grinning. I
tried to get some on video, but she was fascinated and silenced
by the camera’s blinking light :) She cooed and gooed for me
while I folded laundry. It was nice.