Wednesdays and Fridays with Bode

As any mom of more than one child will tell you, finding times to spend one-on-one with each child is sometimes hard (and I only have two), but so important!

With Maggie, our one-on-one time often comes after she wakes up from her nap in the afternoon.  She takes a short afternoon nap, and now that Bode is down to one nap, he will sleep a little longer.  We often do some coloring or girly things.  This is what we did one of our days last week:

Maggie picked out new fingernail polish with some birthday money, and gave me a mani/pedi.

I have to be a little more intentional finding time to spend alone with Bode, but Maggie's new school schedule has lent itself to this mommy-son time quite nicely.

Wednesday and Friday mornings, we will walk Maggie the couple blocks to school, and then Bode and I will continue with the stroller.  The kid LOVES the stroller, which is quite a difference from his big sister at that age.  I remember barely being able to get a two-mile run in while pushing Maggie in the jogging stroller, struggling to hand her her one animal cracker at a time to prolong her semi-contentment.  Often these runs would end in me carrying Maggie and pushing the empty stroller back home.  Bode on the other hand will run TO the stroller, climb in, and insist we go for a walk.

So on these mornings, we usually walk back past our house and down to the little bridge over the river.  Bode loves to say, "Hi, bwiii!" (Hi, bridge!) and "Bye-bye bwiii!"

Bode shows off the leaves he collected on Wednesday.

Friday was a special doughnut day.

Bodes shows me the "X" on the bridge.

Looking for ducks, but they were absent on this rainy day.  "Cack! Cack!"

And then he's off!

Still loves to hold my hand.  Heart. Melting.

The climber.

Giggling while running toward me because he discovered leaves will stick to my workout pants.

Our walks are never long enough for Bode, but usually by this time, I feel I need to get back and get caught up on work emails before picking Maggie up from school.

Practicing his "Os" on Wednesday after our walk.