This weekend has been both chill and hectic. It's an awesome time as it's my 2 days with Jake. Saturday opened up with him flying up to the door and raring to build Legos. I obliged of course and we spent 2 hours constructing some more planes and trucks for his army. I am amazed each time with his creativity and skill. We work very well together on Legos, rummaging through the bins, the crushing sound of Lego's swishing as Jake calls out/requests a "flat 2-er", or a "fat 4-er"... I search for him and he searches for me and in the end he gets a sweet armada!
Saturday around noon, we joined Curtis, Sean Whalling from Soulcraft and Jake's bud (and Curtis' neighbor) Jeffrey on a trip to Sacramento to attend a benefit/raffle for frame builder Steve Rex who was recently pretty badly hurt on a ride (broken femur and shoulder). Steve builds incredible frames and has a bike shop in Sac. It was really amazing to see the level of support Steve garnered...they offered $10 raffle tickets, had hoped to pull in $2500, and when all was said and done, $30,000 was donated to his medical bills/family...it brought tears to a lot of people's eyes...Jake was totally stoked as his raffle ticket number was called-he won a pair of Voler leg warmers!
Saturday night, Jake wanted to stay up "all night" so we tried. Let's see more lego'ing, kick back and watch Clone Wars, sip some hot cocoa and marshmallows and spend 2 hours reading an incredible book from my childhood, "Where the Red Fern Grows". Surprisingly, Jake made it to midnight!
Sunday brought a later wake-up and rain. We settled into Legos (surprise) and the headed ou to First Squeeze for some breakfast. From there it was marathon time...Hit the Loose Caboose for some "Racing Orange" Spray paint to start a 1964 Ford Stock car model Curtis and Mitzi gave Jake for Christmas.
Let's see, picked up a new pair of sweet black and white checkered slip on Vans for Jake-mo...
...did some christmas shopping for cousins Kaya and Kaleb, some grocery shopping, then back home for...Lego Building!
Papa and YaYa stopped by so we did Mexican food with them and then back home to finish the Lego fleet, shoot some digi-pics of it, hit up bath-time and a little more reading before shut-eye time.
Whew!
As a single Dad, it's bittersweet, I see my son only 40% of the time (soon to be 50%), so when he's here, it's all I can do to cram as much time doing "stuff" as possible---the other days of the week, no matter how "fun" I try to make them, just aren't the same...anyway, I am super-excited to give him my gifts, as there are some incredible surprises coming!
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