Very Busy

It has been a long while since I blogged. I have been really busy and even went away on business to Dallas. I was gone 5 days and Harrison was with Cliff the whole time. For the most part it was uneventful. Harrison was really good while I was gone. Well for the exception of 1 hour on Saturday. He did act up a bit at Gymboree but Cliff handled it perfectly by leaving with him. They did spend the rest of the morning/afternoon at the Como Zoo looking at the animals. Harriosn absolutely loves animals. I came home on Sunday and spend alot of time with the both of them.

Last week I was really just trying to recover from being away. Harrison went to New Horizon's day care for 2 days last week. He really enjoys going there to play with his "friends". But dropping him off is a bit traumatic. He will go there again on Friday because Carol rescheduled her dr. appointment for then. I think Harrison is excited to go back.

This weekend we all had a good time. First the Olympics started. I absolutely love the winter olympics. My favorite things to watch are the Alpine Skiing, Short track speed skaing, Speed Skating, Luge and Skeleton. Again my favorte Short Track Speed Skater - Apolo Anton Ohno is competing. He is just fun to watch and now I have added Bode Miller to my list of favorites. I get so addicted to the Olympics coverage.

On Saturday after Gymboree I took Harrison shopping with me to TJ Maxx. I told him we were going and that he can pick out a new book. Well, when we got there I started looking at clothes and after about 4 minutes Harrison declared that "We are at TJ Maxx and I want to look for a new book!" It was hilarious. So of course I took him over to the books. He picked out 2 new ones - A Curious George book and a Thomas the Tank Engine book. He looked at those while I continued to shop. After that we stopped at McDonalds for lunch. Harrison loved his chicken nuggets meal. What I think he liked the most was the box it came in. He also loved the apple dunkers he got. He got to take the apples and dunk them in caramel. He only ate 2 of his 4 nuggets but he wanted to bring the rest home for later.

In the car on the way home I asked him if he was going to give his nuggets to Daddy or eat them later himself. He then stated in no uncertain terms that "I eat them later...and I eat them in the box NOT on a Plate!! IN THE BOX!" It was hysterical. So that night for dinner, I heated up his nuggets and gave them to him in his box.

On Saturday night we got a sitter and went out to our valentines dinner. We ate at a great neighborhood restaurant...Trattoria DaVinci. I had the best Gnocci ever. I would recommend it to anyone. Cliff got steak and he really enjoyed it as well. After dinner we went to a party for my friend Barb who turned 40. It was a pretty mello party and since we were not feeling to well, we left around 11:00.

On Sunday we went over to the MOA. I had some free tickets for the rides at the amusement park. So we took Harrison there. We first went on the train. He really liked it, after first being a bit scared. But he ended up loving it. He went on it 3-4 more times. I then asked him if he wanted to go on the school bus ride. He of course said yes but I told him we should look at it first and we watched the ride go once around. He then declared that he didn't want to go on rides that went up in the air. He wanted to stay on the ground. So that is what we did. We then made our way over to the Truckin' ride. He loved that and Cliff and I took turns taking him on that one as well.

After the rides I noticed that they were doing auditions for Super Nanny. I lingered around there and of course they came over to us. I started talking to them and they seemed interested in Harrison, mainly because he was so cute. But unfortunately we didn't do anything about it because Cliff doesn't want to be on TV.

We then went to lunch at Johnny Rockets. We all had a great time, especially Harrison who got a vanilla milk shake and was in ice cream heaven. I did get him to eat 1/2 of his hamburger but he really liked the milk shake. Our trip to the mall was a success.