Amanda is still on call, and she had to go in early for another delivery. I drove her to the hospital (with the Kai), spent a bit of time back home entertaining the little one with “Busik!”, and then went off to the commercial mecca Southcenter area to try to get some errands done. As it turned out, nothing real got done. I did score a free lunch at Ivar’s for Lonan Kai. Sweet!
I tried to look for Peter McCarty books at Borders. We had acquired Hondo and Fabian yesterday at the Bookworm Exchange, and I found it awesome (Lonan Kai finds it kinda meh, though). I could not find it. And why is it so hard to find kids books in stores anyway? I have not been able to figure out how stuff is organized.
I managed to get the Kai home without him falling asleep, and he went down for his afternoon nap relatively easily. While he was asleep, I cleaned up, saw that our three new fish were still alive, unclogged the water barrel’s filter, surfed the net a bit, and played with the cats.
When the Kai awoke, I was going to take him to visit Amanda at work, drop off the car so she would not have to walk to the bus or light rail later in the evening, and then explore downtown with the Kai and take the train home. However, Amanda’s delivery went very very quick, and she just took the bus home and arrived a few minutes before the Kai woke up (screaming of course).
On her way out of the hospital, she ran into someone who lived in her freshman dorm at Cornell; he had just moved into the area in the past couple of months and his wife was possibly going into labor. Funny.
We then went to the Essential Baking Company in Madison Valley for a snack before trying to go to the Japanese Garden. Unfortunately, there was some type of children’s league game going on (soccer? softball?) so there was no parking to be had. We went up to the north end of the Arboretum to walk about and check out the duckies. We almost got run over by cars speeding through the parking lot; they must be Broadmoor residents as who else would drive through that fast?
We did see some duckies. Amanda contributed to duck diabetes by feeding them some of Lonan Kai’s cereal. Lonan Kai was full of energy as he must have run almost continuously for 30 or so minutes.
Back home, it was an improvised stir fry for dinner, more “Busik!” for Lonan Kai, and then bath and bed for the little one. Actually, before dinner we walked to the garden for grapes and some quick weeding. We now have a bee hive in the garden which is cool. We picked a big zucchini which Lonan Kai took many bites out of before we got back to the house.
This is the second substantial entry in a row. Maybe it is a sign of good things to come.