Jadens Journey

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This past week we joined a group put together by the mother of two toddlers. The group is designed to allow parents to connect with other parents, and to attend fun events in the area. The events this group puts together tend to be further away than I’d like, but it is good to have a calendar full of opportunities to take Jaden out and have him meet other toddlers.

Yesterday we got up early (which is not difficult these days with the usual sleeping patterns), rushed through our morning schedule and hopped in the car to go to our first meet-up with our newly joined group. They were getting together at a MOPS meeting, which is an organization, “Mothers Of Preschoolers”, that has meetings at different locations throughout the U.S.

Did you ever start driving somewhere and the thought pops into your head “something doesn’t feel right”. I brushed it off as being nervous meeting a bunch of mothers and their toddlers for the first time, and continued driving.

It turns out I should have (once again) listened to my instincts. The meeting was canceled. Supposedly they posted notice somewhere, but seeing that we had to drive 45 minutes to get there, there was no way I was going to see this notice before arriving.

We made the most of the day by heading to Mystic Seaport. This time Jaden was more interested in the fish, sea lions, and other creatures (especially those running around in sneakers) than he was the last time we went. I’m happy about that – it is a great place to go even just for a quick (albeit 45 minute drive for a) morning out so I was hoping he’d eventually be more interested.

As an aside: I found some pictures of Jaden on my phone from our hospital visit. I’ll post them to the pictures tab asap.

This weekend we are having a dinner party, which I’ll be busy getting ready for starting this afternoon. One of Neville’s colleagues has family visiting from Korea. This is part of the same family that picked us up and dropped us off at the airport, and showed us around Seoul while we were there. We also invited my colleague that was in Seoul while we were there, who has now returned to the States. It’ll be the second time Jaden sees most of those that are coming. The English speakers will be greatly outnumbered by Korean speakers, so it should be interesting. We’re really looking forward to it.  I’ll try to take lots of pictures

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Today was Jaden’s first adventure at the Mystic Aquarium. Since he watches so much Elmo’s World, we figured it might be nice if he saw some fish in person rather than just on television. He wasn’t impressed. He was more concerned with what all the kids in the place were doing. We even tried to tell him one of the gold fish was “Dorothy” (Elmo’s pet fish). No luck.

We then took him outside to see the sea lions, penguins, and beluga whales, but we had the same luck. He didn’t even seem to see the sea lions – possibly because of their gray bodies against the gray background. When we were near the penguin tank he was more interested in the yellow “do not cross” tape around another exhibit that was closed. The beluga whales were swimming right in front of him, but he kept swiveling his head around to see the screaming kids. It was a little frustrating, and a lot of humorous. We will try again when he’s a little older. Maybe for now he’ll have greater recognition of what he’s seeing on the television when Elmo does his little skit about fish.

Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures. I even had the camera and camcorder with us, but I didn’t think of it until we were back at the car. Bad Mommy…. but there’s always next time.

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