Monday Miscellany

Our daycare center is wonderful in many ways.  Unfortunately, being open on Easter Monday is not one of them.  So, since my dissertation isn't due this week, I'm with Nicholas today, and we're having a blast, of sorts.  Some brief, bullet-point notes:

• When you're at the grocery store with a ten-month-old, it's very cruel to stand in the baby food aisle trying to figure out which ones to buy, and not give the ten-month-old anything to eat.  At least that's what I think Nicholas was trying to tell me through the tears and bawling while I re-read the coupon to make sure I'd gotten the right things.
• Nicholas has gotten to a stage where he seems to want to eat what we have ... except he doesn't actually.  While feeding him lunch, he kept looking at my turkey sandwich as if he could have a bite.  Now, I guess in theory he could have a turkey sandwich, but it was way too big for him to eat, and I'd made it on toast, which is hard to bite down on.  Also, he was doing this while I was trying to feed him his yogurt, which for a baby is candy.  In any event, the general trend has made feeding a little more difficult.  Toddler years, here we come!
• Nicholas and I watched just a few minutes of the first baseball games of the year this afternoon.  And Nicholas apparently finds the Star-Spangled Banner as entrancing as the West Wing theme.
• This afternoon we went to a nearby park to have some outdoors time, given the extreme heat 'round these parts.  As usual, Nicholas spent most of the time watching or following the bigger kids, but he always looks interested.  And he did get on a little play car, which he studied very carefully  (as evidenced by the furrowed brow) but enjoyed (as evidenced by the fact that he wasn't crying).
• Photo!

From 2010 April

Now he's off taking a nap, which means I should try to be productive.  This will involve convincing myself that watching a baseball quadrupleheader on ESPN is a bad idea.  Should be loads of fun.