Worst days

Mini Golf

Beach Day!

Downtown SB Adventures

Summer Ball

Waiting Rooms

Today I was diagnosed with a case of "stay away". Consequently, I'll be working from home for a couple of days until the meds do something, which just happens to fit in nicely with my Alden fix. The silver lining, so they would say. So I would say. I do say... as a matter of fact.

Sunday of a different sort

My little helper today. I REALLY didn't want to go in today but couldn't avoid it. We are reconfiguring the furniture in our building and I've been slacking on it due to my current workload balanced with party time with Alden. So, today we went in and made a party out of getting the first phase of the project done - he was very helpful!

Today also marks day seven of the agreement we made last week, things Alden must do every day in order to get his Iron Man mask. He was ever so happy to finally pull it down off of the counter and slide his tiny head in. Haha.

We bought some of those diving sticks at the store the other day. There are 6 variations, each one valued at a different amount of points. I must say, all of this summer time swimming sure has paid off - he's able to swim to the bottom and gather up anywhere from 1-3 sticks at a time before coming back to the surface and swimming to the edge of the pool. I think we can confidently say he now knows how to swim! I'm so proud!

He also got a new toy that will go along nicely with his mask - which he gets tomorrow! This thing is rad, does a high pressure squirt that goes really far and a grenade style burst of water. Very cool toy.

Contracts & Deals

He's been trying to hustle me into buying him this Iron Man mask for weeks now. Every couple of days we stop by the grocery store to pick up this or that, all the while he taunts and asks. Well, today I finally caved... with stipulations.

If he does these things every day for the rest of the week, it's his on Sunday. I think that's pretty fare, especially the part about popsicles.

Family Home Evening?

UNO victory against six year olds tastes soooo good I had seconds. This is pay back for those 3 mini-golf hole-in-one's last night!

... I spoke to soon. I just lost with TWENTY SEVEN CARDS in hand!

Hole In One

We set off to do some routine grocery errands but were disappointed when drove across town to find everywhere we intended on hitting close. Since we were out and about we thought it a good idea to make some fun out of it. So, the party started with Del. Duh, who doesn't consider Del a party all in itself...

Then we went to the shottiest "fun palace" ever. A building the size of a walgreens (maybe) had a bowling alley, mini golf, arcade and go-carts. We'd driven by it a few times before but have never managed to peek our head in the door. I had asked Alden if he'd ever went mini-golfing, which he hasn't. He really wanted to give it a try so we did just that. How humbled was I when the little turd got THREE hole-in-one's... on a mini gold course! You know, the crazy courses with the windmills and tiny moving trucks on the course - yeah, he did that.

I sincerely love that my six year old son is better than me at EVERYTHING. Haha.

Heaters

While watching Sandlot today, Alden had the urge to practice throwing fast balls, straight into the sofa.