Daddy's Home!

For the past week Thomas has been in Mexico on a business trip. This trip starts the beginning of Thomas' travel season. At least this trip was only a week long. This morning Eli and I got up and we made it to the gym and then afterward we went across the street to get a smoothie at Jamba Juice and waste some time before we need to head to the airport. By the way never get strawberry wild there neither Eli or I liked it. We should have stuck with what we normally get, it was way to sweet for either of our likings.

We were to pick up Thomas and the arrival area in terminal E and I think for the first time that I have picked Thomas up there it was not busy! So I let Eli run around while we waited for Thomas to get through customs. I even brought a couple of matchbox tractors for Eli to play with while we waited and he had a blast rolling them on the floor and in that big room they would go far. The other people there seemed to get a kick out of watching Eli and his tractors, I think because he was the only entertainment there! We didn't wait long and I saw Thomas coming through the doors and I said to Eli, "I see daddy". Eli looked up at me and said, "Daddy!" then started looking for him. When he spotted Thomas he ran up to him and got in his arms, it was so sweet!

After we got Thomas we stopped for lunch and then headed home to put Eli down for his nap. After nap we were going to go to the YMCA family fun day but since Eli got up so late we decided to stay home and watch a movie together after dinner. But before dinner we all just played as a family. Eli has a new thing that I can get him to repeat words to me (if I have his attention). But there is always one word he changes when I ask him to repeat it, Mommy. I will ask him to say mommy and he will say mama. He will say daddy but refuses to say mommy. We tried to catch the interaction on camera but of course decided to start filming way to late but we did capture some of it.



After our repeating game Eli decided to color. So we all went into the kitchen to color. At some time during coloring Thomas told Eli to go give mommy a kiss in which he promptly did a nice big sloppy wet kiss right on the lips! (but you know I love it!) Then of course I told Eli to go give Daddy a kiss which in turn he went and gave Thomas a nice big sloppy wet kiss right on the lips. After that he just kept walking back and forth between us giving us kisses. I just want to hold that moment in my mind forever. I did manage to get him giving Thomas a kiss on camera.



We have never attempted to watch a movie with Eli before. Since Eli has never been very interested in watching TV we never thought it was worth the effort to try and get him to watch a movie. Lately Eli has been watching almost whole TV shows so we thought we would give it a try. We had gotten Horton Hears a Who through netflix so we put that on. After watching the movie for about 45 minutes I went and made us popcorn and of course Eli had to come "Help". I'm not sure how he knew what popcorn was but when I said I'm going to go make us some popcorn Eli got up and said popcorn and followed me into the kitchen like he knew exactly what I was going to do. I have a popcorn maker where you can watch it the kernels pop so it's kind of fun to watch. After the popcorn was done we all went back to the living room to finish the movie and chow down on the yummy popcorn. Eli loved the popcorn, he would lay on Thomas' stomach and put his hand in the bowl and eat the popcorn. Eli did really well watching the movie he made it a whole hour before getting really restless and I think he only started getting restless is because it was his bed time. Once Thomas got him ready for bed we finished watching the movie and then Eli picked out his bed time story and went to bed. It was a lovely evening and we might have to do movie night again!