Scenes from a Weekend

Sixty hours at home can do wonders for the soul, and apparently for toddlers who miss their fathers.  We had a busy, productive, and slightly insane weekend.  In other words, par for the course.  Here, then, are a few highlights:

"Running Errands"
Nicholas now understands the concept, if not the particulars.  On Saturday morning, just after my arrival, Nicholas and I went on some errands that had piled up during the week—the bank and the post office specifically, with a trip to the library thrown in to allow him to play for a few.  It's actually more fun for him that you think.  He was good at the post office, and the postal worker gave him a free coloring book while we were waiting [ed.: a POST OFFICE COLORING BOOK! Can you tell Daddy was more excited than Nicholas?], and he loves the bank because he always gets a lollipop. In fact, the first thing he did in the bank was walk over to the desk where he first got one and said loudly, "Where's the woman?" She's not in on Saturday, but the tellers were happy to oblige a smile and carefully word "Please may I have a lollipop?"  And he loves the library, which I think we've discussed a number of times.

Anyway, part of the point of this whole anecdote is that we also ran errands this morning, to look for eyeglasses and get me a flu shot.  When we told Nicholas we were running errands, he exclaimed, "Go to the bank, and the post office, and the LIBRARY!!!"

Pumpkins
Sarah spent much of the weekend grading, so I took Nicholas to pick out a pumpkin, which he's been begging to do since we went apple-picking a few weeks back and he saw the pumpkin patch.  It didn't take very long to pick one pumpkin (and with the nice weather things had been pretty well picked over).  But we enjoyed some quality time, and also an apple cider donut and a free cup of apple cider (yum!).

And yes, I was under strict orders to bring the camera and take photos.  So here's some proof we brought back a pumpkin.

Trying to pick one up:

From 2011 October

Surveying the pumpkin patch:

From 2011 October

And one of only two photos in which he deigned to look at the camera (the other I spare from public consumption as I caught him mid-cough):

From 2011 October

In other news Nicholas helped Sarah make a cake (funfetti!), but that's a story that Sarah should tell.  It's great to be home, even if just for two days, but man, is it exhausting.  And yet I can't wait for Friday afternoon to come.