Current mood:	rushed
Current music:	teevee; Stayin' Alive

girl on a carousel, she spins black rain pouring down
Have I mentioned how totally totally addicted I am to Daisy of Love? It's truly shameful. Most things people consider guilty pleasures, I don't really feel guilty about, that that is one for sure. Sean is horrified by my obsession.

Cash learned a new word on saturday. Now we have this conversation

"Hey Cash, can you say baby?"
"BAY-BEE!"
"Very good! Are you a baby?"
*vehement head shaking*
"You're not? What are you?"
"BIG!!!!"

So cute.


So friday we headed out at lunchtime, Cash was good natured enough for the first part of the drive, and fell asleep between Destin and Pensacola. I read my Unique Homes magazine and made jokes about all the ludicrous amenities in some of the houses, the unrealistic prices, people marking down their homes from $20 million to $15 million and how the magazine itself is doing fine in the economy, the more people need to sell their ridiculously high end luxury homes, the better off the publication does.

A Russian billionaire bought one of Donald Trump's homes last year for a hundred million dollars and is actually tearing it down to rebuild on the property. I said to Sean "Who spends $100 mil on a home to tear it down?!" and he said "Umm...a Russian billionaire, I guess!"

Anyhow, when we got to the end Sean said he never knew a real estate magazine could be so funny and complimented me on my running commentary.

Cash woke up before we even got into Alabama, so the latter part of the trip was not so fun. I plied him with juice and string cheese and Oreos and new books to try to keep him happy, all in all he did okay but it took a lot of work.

We got to MiL's around 5:30. She was in the yard with her dog, and Mr B was very happy to see the big dog when we got out. Bruno is not 100% reliable around children though, so it was tough to keep Cash happy. He doesn't understand why anyone would have a big doggie if he can't play with it, use it as a sofa, roll ont he floor with it, etc...! But Bruno's just not used to kids and not the brightest star in the sky, so we had to stay on top of them if they were together. It was hard.

MiL made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, but before we could eat, Cash wanted to play "steal my blanket" with her. They started this game at Christmas and that's the one thing he really enjoys doing with Grammy. He climbs into bed, pulls the covers up to his nose and then waits for her to snatch them off. He laughs and laughs, then pulls them back up and waits again. This can go on for a good 15-20 minutes.

She had read in the paper about a new playground that had opened up a few blocks from her house where they had a big play area called "the splash pad" that was all water spraying toys and fountains that shoot out of the ground and all. SO after dinner, we decided to go check it out. It is a good thing I brought swimmies for Cash even though I didn't think we'd be going in the water. He was in hog heaven! When they shut off the water at 8 pm, he was devastated and we promised him he could come back after breakfast to play some more.

If that place was near our house, I can see where I'd pretty much have to take him every day. It was great fun, and FREE.

Once we got home, we watched Beverly Hills Chihuahua, which is still a film Cash wants to see pretty much daily. Totally fine by me, I am so grateful that he's decided to love a movie that I love too instead of subjecting me to repeated viewings of something I can't stand like Cars.

It took a while to get him to sleep, MiL's street has a lot of traffic and is near a railroad, so even with the white noise machine the occasional car noise would startle him or he'd hear a train whistle and get all amped up wanting to see it. We saw 2 long freight trains on our way to and from the water park and he was so excited. The boy loves him some choo choos. Not like marelespo's son loves them, but he's still young.

We went to bed not long after. A car woke Cash sometime in the middle of the night, but I got him back to sleep fairly quickly. He likes his new air mattress, was perfectly happy with it, so that was a great investment. Well worth $39! Sean laid down on it the next morning to test it out and actually dozed off, it's comfy!

After a big breakfast of eggs (Cash ate seriously 4 or 5) bacon and pancakes, and another viewing of the first hour of Beverly Hills Chihuahua, we went back to the water park. Well, started to, and then we discovered we had a flat tire. Seriously, if it's not one thing it's another! Every time we spend the last of our money on some emergency, here comes another one. Thankfully our spare is a full size tire and one in good condition. But until friday, we don't have a spare, so I'm just terrified of having another flat. At least we made it home safely.

Anyhow, Sean put it on, then we went to the park and splashed the morning away. There was a family having a massive reunion there and they had a PA set up blasting old Motown hits, Cash danced to "Got to Give It Up" he apparently likes Marvin Gaye. I got a ton of pics with MiL's camera (mine got left at home in my beach bag) so I'll have those online sooner or later.

We wore that child out! Went home, got him changed into dry duds, watched some more Beverly Hills Chihuahua, fed him a weenie and some onion rings for lunch, then set off for Mobile.

That was the one leg of the trip that went as planned, Cash fell asleep before we made it to the freeway and slept the whole time. Woke up about 5 minutes from FiL's house.

And it's almost midnight, I have a huge toddler fiesta to put on in the morning, so I'm going to call it a night & pick up where I left off tomorrow!

We did have a very nice father's day though. Cash sure loves his daddy!