Friday Fun

I have really loved having my Fridays off since having Eli. It gives me some time to hang out with him doing fun activities that we don't get time to do during the week while Marc and I are working. This morning Eli woke up around 8 and I cooked him some eggs and sausage to start the day off. Then we headed out to run some errands. I had a doctor's appt. this morning for follow-up on some dizziness that I had early on in this pregnancy. Fortunately, I haven't had any more problems so it was a quick appt. I REALLY wanted to have the ENT look at Eli's ears while I was in there and give us a recommendation but I knew Eli didn't have an appt. so I didn't say anything. I get a lot of parents at work that bring in one child to be seen and then try to get me to look at one or two more children while I am in there. I decided not to be one of those patients. :) He has actually been doing much better with his runny nose on the Zyrtec so we will just wait and see.

Eli started getting restless waiting on Dr. L and I had not brought enough entertainment! He normally loves his puppet monkey... but not this morning! He kept throwing it on the floor every time I gave it to him.

So, I resorted to the sunglasses which worked until we were able to leave. :)

In case you didn't know, today is National Donut Day and many donut chains offer free glazed donuts on this day. Our local chain is LaMar's Donuts so Eli and I headed there after my appt. for a mid-morning snack. This day was originally started by the Salvation Army some 70 years ago so the Salvation Army was at LaMar's today taking donations.

Eli really loved his donut and juice. I hope his sibling enjoyed it as well because I sure did! They recommend an extra 300 calories a day during pregnancy so considering that I ate my donut and 1/2 of Eli's I think my extra calories are probably already done for the day. :)

After our snack I took Eli to the park. I didn't have his sunscreen with me so I knew we wouldn't stay long. Even though it was only 10:30 in the morning it was really hot. We were both sweating and didn't last long at all. I let Eli go down the slide by himself today (with me really close by) and he loved it! He is just getting so big and becoming so independent.

We are looking forward to spending all day with Marc tomorrow. He has been working some long days this week in the hospital with some really sick patients, so I know he is looking forward to a day off as well. Have a great weekend!