Saturday Morning Date with Mom

Hey, that's us! Isaac (tot) & Christina (Mom)

Eric (Dad) was on a business trip for a couple of days last week. Come Saturday morning, we were getting a mild case of cabin fever, so we went on an early morning Saturday date.  Stop one: Patty's Egg Nest for breakfast.  Patty's is normally a very busy restaurant, but at 7am we were one of only10 other patrons, and the youngest guests by about 70 years!  Isaac enjoyed his "one egg scrambled" and a good share of Mom's hashbrowns.  He was also very helpful, letting me know that the coffee pots were "HOT":

We were in and out of the restaurant in 20 minutes. Just about the time that Isaac started wiggling in his high chair, and just enough time for me to enjoy my meal and to suck down two cups of coffee.

Next Stop: Carkeek Park.
It, too, was pretty empty at 7:30 on a Saturday morning.  Isaac had the play ground to himself. His first task: putting sawdust down the holes on the jungle gym:

Busy at work

"Where did it go? How do i get more?"

"Ah ha! Here we go"

"Do I eat this?"

"Oh, right! Back to putting it down the holes..."

Then, we walked down to the swing set.  In the past he hasn't liked the swing, but he was pointing to it, so i put him in and gave him a push.  Well folks, he loved it!  He was ready for his swing photo shoot:

This kid is gonna break some hearts!

We also went down to the beach for a little beach-combing:

searching for the biggest rocks...

All in all it was a great morning!  And we were even more happy that Dad was home later that afternoon.

Nothing like a little Dude time, reading together on the couch:

will Isaac get smarter just holding this book?