Well... what an interesting 24 hours or so this has been. To recap, in case you're a day or two behind on what's happening here, we're watching a two-year-old boy named Daniel, who is one of the children Jessi knows, for a couple of days, to kind of give his mom a respite of sorts. This is not directly involved with the foster parenting program here in western Washington, by any means... but Jessi figured it'd be good practice for us!
As I said last night, it took him a bit to get settled down for the night, and after I went to bed, he did awaken a few times during the night for one reason or another (Krypto was a bit of a pain to deal with, because he was trying to "help", which he wasn't much of).
This morning began for me at about 8:30, when Daniel and I woke up... Jessi had been up for a bit already, as we were expecting Joe, a boxer belonging to some friends of ours, Michael and Vanessa, to be dropped off at 8.
I made breakfast for us (pancakes for Daniel, as he didn't seem interested in potatoes at all, and I didn't think he'd go for scrambled eggs, preferring instead foods he could eat by hand), and basically, we tried to keep the dogs outside as much as possible.
After breakfast, we got ready to head over to Olympic Cards and Comics for Free Comic Book Day, so we put the dogs to bed, loaded up in the car, and headed out. This year, store owner Gabi was allowing each person to pick five books... there were three of us, so we got 15 books (pretty good deal!). One book in particular, I think it's called Owley, was perfect for Daniel, as it had no words... the story was told all in pictures (I think we'll be picking up the trades of this series, great for preschool kids). I haven't had a chance to read any of the other books we got yet.
Next was a quick stop at the grocery store, as Michael and Vanessa were going to be coming over for dinner tonight and we needed a few things. After that, we headed back home, and since Jessi and Daniel were sleepy, they went for a nap while I kept the dogs downstairs and watched some Enterprise episodes, with occasional breaks for cleaning up.
After the naps were done, we got a few pictures with Daniel and the dogs (mostly KO), and I got some practice changing diapers (I changed three or four of them today, including one poopy diaper). Dinner with Michael and Vanessa worked out great, and after they left, we settled down in the living room to watch The Incredibles (we'd watched enough of Happy Feet, which I'd just bought on Friday, already).
We were able to get Daniel to go to bed earlier tonight, thank goodness... last night at this same time, he wasn't even asleep yet, so we've made some progress!
Sometime on Sunday -- in theory -- Daniel's mother is supposed to be picking him up. Originally, she was supposed to call us around noon today to tell us when she'd be getting him, but apparently she couldn't get to a phone at all until this evening. We didn't know for certain we'd have him tonight, but we both suspected it would be the case (I think Daniel's mom -- whom I've never met) is a bit of a flake. Hopefully, sometime on Sunday she will pick him up... otherwise, we'll have him Sunday evening as well, and Jessi will take him home on her way to work on Monday.
Oh, we also got to deal with a couple of minor tantrums... there's a reason it's referred to as the "terrible twos", you know!
Jon