Crazy Mondays

Back when both Ali and I were working, and Jake was in daycare, I would take off every other Monday to do something fun with Jake. I told him these were "crazy Mondays." But now that Ali's at home, when I stay home every other Monday, it just feels like a longer weekend since we're all there. But today, Ali had to go in to Sunrise, where she's been doing some part-time work from home, and was at work all morning. I told Jake it was the Return of Crazy Monday! Sadie had no idea what I was talking about, but she smiled anyway.

I took the kids down to the National Building Museum where they have a really cool little kids' "Building Zone" set up with all kinds of activity stations. Of course, it was closed. It was closed because they were tearing down all the equipment from an event over the weekend in the main hall and they thought it would be too dangerous for the kids to be tucked away in this safe and quiet sideroom with all those toys, and instead ushered us out to one end of the main hall where they were working 20 feet away, with no barriers. That same woman who told us the playroom was closed came by later to tell us to be careful of the kids crawling on the carpet because she'd found several small metal objects and SHARDS OF GLASS! Thanks a lot, lady!

Jake and Sadie had a GREAT time anyway. Jake ran and ran and ran around the big space and Sadie practiced her standing and even pushed the stroller around. Jake made friends with all the kids we met and played really nicely - he's such a good boy (ok, I'm choosing to ignore the fact that he dumped out all the folded laundry tonight, and then knocked over the reindeer decorations just to get a reaction).

Here's a video of Jake playing "Ready-Set-Go" from one end of the hall to the other. Notice how long it takes him to get to the other side. He's running fast-- it's just a big building and he has little legs. On the way back he's trying to high-five me, but he misses and says so, and we try again, which apparently knocks him over.