One benefit of having Daphne in part-time daycare that I'd been really looking forward to, as I mentioned in my last post, is having some one-on-one time with Elias each week. That is obviously one of the challenges of having more than one kid, especially when your first kid is so old by the time any siblings come along - how to carve out some time for each of them. And I may not be able to keep this up indefinitely, assuming/hoping work picks up over the next few months, but for the time-being Wednesday afternoons are a chance for Elias and I to enjoy some mama-son adventures around the Bay Area. He's at such a fun age for these kinds of shenanigans, too, still enjoying my company (only because Dad is not an option at that time!) and old enough to do so many fun things. Of course a couple of Wednesdays have been botched due to illness of one family member or another, and a couple of afternoons were used to see movies, but the idea is to do things that we can't easily do with little sister in tow for the couple of hours between school getting out and daycare pick-up.
Like slide down the concrete slide at Cordonices Park a dozen times...
...walk around the rose garden across the street (not a lot of roses in bloom this time of year but the view was spectacular)...
...and enjoy a cool treat at Lush Gelato in Berkeley! So fun. Stay tuned for more adventures!
PS - the top pic is at a froyo place in Alameda following a Wednesday afternoon matinee of the Lego movie. Little did I know there was a popcorn kernel in his ear! And yes, we may just have to end each of these Wacky Wednesday afternoons with some kind of sweet treat!
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