Saturday was Leah’s birthday so we drove to Newton to give she and Dave a day free from their toddler. And we got to watch Emmet!
Leah and Dave left about noon. We put Emmet’s little jacket and boots on and said, “Let’s go to Mojos! He headed for the front door. After we got him headed out the right door, he took off because he knows the way. When we caught up, he put his little hands up for us to hold. We played one, two, three swing and he giggled. But when we got to the street, mr independent yanked his hands out of ours. He didn’t protest when we grabbed him up.
Then it was off to the slide. Apparently he has graduated to the big slide which he goes down alone. Yikes!
We were worried Emmet would fuss when after 3 times down the slide, we suggested it was time to leave, but he was happy to head off for Mojos. We pretty much followed him and tried to hold his hood to keep him safe, but he wasn’t having it. Grandpa picked him up a couple times but he didn’t love that either.
Mojos had a long line so I let Emmet run down the halls til Grandpa got close. We ordered the parfait for Emmet and lunch and coffee for us. Yum! Emmet showed off his spoon skills by digging the spoon to the bottom of the parfait and bringing out 
a giant spoonful and getting it into his mouth with little mess.
On the way home from Mojos, we found a giant pile of leaves and Emmet giggled and giggled while we played in them. I held him on the swing while Grandpa pushed us and we tried the teeter totter but it didn’t work out.
Grandpa loved making Rmmet giggle walking home.
When we got to the house, Emmet ran to his room and starting reading his books. Hannah FaceTime called and then Emmet read some more. He calmed down and let me read to him so I got the room ready and rocked him with his blanket and buffalo until he was very sleepy then laid him down. Nope. Not having it. Cried. I left the room anyway but he kept crying. So I got him and went to Leah’s room with him. We played on the bed and he loved it. Then he looked at the google mini and said,”goo”. I told it to put on Macklemore, Emmet’s go to calm down music. He laid back and settled down and almost went to sleep. I closed my eyes for awhile and let him play with my iwatch until I heard the sound of a text being sent. Oops. But he sent it to Leah. Busted! We aren’t supposed to let him play with our watches.
We got Emmet’s jacket on again and get the car seat and tried to get it in the car. Scott said it takes a rocket scientist to put the car seat in a car!
Downtown we shopped and Emmet ran around like he owned the place. I bought some clothes on sale and Scott bought some kombucha.
When we got to the house, Emmet was asleep in the car seat. When I picked him up, he stayed asleep on me. So I sat in the chair and let him sleep for awhile. When Leah and Dave got home, he opened his eyes but wasn’t ready to get up. Then he was hot and thirsty and cranky. So we only got a B on our grandparenting.
We ordered food and ate with them and wished Leah a wonderful birthday. And we lived our time with sweet Emmet.
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