Down

• Calvin was sick most of this week. I blame it on all the sugar he had last weekend.
• While Calvin was sick, I barely exercised and also tended to eat a lot of chocolate. Not a good combination. Not surprisingly I gained weight. I aim to keep my BMI just under the “overweight” designation and this week it went over. So, I really need to knuckle down, eat small portions of healthy food, and exercise a lot the next couple of weeks. It’s so much easier to have good intentions than to actually implement them . . .
• I’m way behind at work and taking time off to stay with Calvin didn’t help.

Ups

• I finally installed blackout shades in Calvin’s room on Tuesday. To my shock, this seems to allow him to nap in his room. For the last several months, I’ve been walking multiple hours every Sunday so Calvin would take a nap in the stroller. Pretty good exercise but there are other ways I’d prefer to spend my Sunday afternoon. I’m hoping he slept because his room is finally dark enough during the day. The real test will be this Sunday.
• While Calvin had a fever and was much cuddlier than usual, he wasn’t exceptionally cranky which was a lifesaver. I’m not sure I could have handled a cranky toddler for four full days.
• I did get my basic chores done this week. I would have preferred to check a few more things of my cleaning schedule but I suppose I should be thankful I was able to do even basic cleaning with Calvin home most of the week.
• Calvin went to daycare today! It was wonderful to go back to my normal weekday routine.
• The weather was perfect today. After I picked Calvin up from daycare we went to one of our local parks and Calvin ran around for about an hour before it was time to go home.

Calvin Moment

• Calvin has started to become really insistent on helping me in the kitchen as I make supper. Sadly, by the time he actually is helpful, I suspect this phase will have passed. However, currently he’s consistently asking me to pick him up so he can help stir and wash the dishes. I let him stir a fair amount though he was a little too vigorous with our quinoa salad which ended up splattered over the counter and floor. He had more success loading the dishwasher. I gave him a fair amount of silverware and he carefully picked up each piece and put it in the silverware bin in the dishwasher.