Technical difficulties are the absolute worst when one is
trying to write.
I sat down yesterday with the expectation of composing an
epic opus declaring the adventures of Day 207. However, I found myself thwarted
at the hands of the dastardly Windows 10 security update. Normally, security
updates take a whole two to five minutes to deal with. Well, that wasn't the
case with this one in particular as the update began (by accident) at 9:30 pm
and was still running around 10:45 pm. Ugh.
Therefore, it goes without saying that my epic opus reliving
the events of Wednesday had to be put on hold until today. Well, wait no longer
because I proudly present to you, Day 207!
I think it's a significant possibility that sweet Ellie is
completely exhausted. Of course, I don't think I could blame her. She's had an
exciting couple of days between the Fourth of July and then getting to spend
the entire day with her Uncle Ryan the next day.
Honestly, I love hanging out with my brother-in-law but I
found myself slightly concerned about doing so alone for the whole day. It's
not for the reason you think though. He and I have spent plenty of time
together before. We even traveled to San Francisco without Bethany! Instead, I was
worried that he would get really bored just sitting around with me and Ellie
for the day. I say that because, well, because it can be really boring to sit
around the house with an infant all day. That's especially true during Ellie's
naps since a person really can't make any noise with living in fear of waking
her.
So, to set the stage, we find ourselves sitting around
quietly until Ellie wakes up, actively brainstorming things we can do for the
day. Finally, we settle on driving out to Overland Park in an attempt to find a
radio station I had won something from. And yes, this is a different radio
station than I normally win things from. Therefore, once Ellie awoke from her
slumber, we stuffed her in the car seat and set off on what we anticipated
would be a short, little adventure. In fact, I expected it to be so short I
didn't even pack Ellie's diaper bag.
Once we finally found the radio station and retrieved my
prize ($25 gift card to Jazz if you're interested), we hopped back in the car
to head home. At this point, Ryan asked exactly how close we were to Bethany's
office because he was a little curious to see it. Since we had nothing else to
do on the schedule, instead of heading home, I pointed the car towards the
Legends district and Bethany's office.
When looking at the clock on the way, I came up with the
bright idea of picking Bethany up for lunch so the three of us (four if you
count Ellie) could eat together. For that to happen though, we had to first
kill a little bit of time. Ryan actually came up with the idea of going to
Cabela's to see the stuffed animals and what an idea it was! Ellie actually
loved it so much that she tried to wriggle loose every time we got close to a
display due to her overwhelming desire to touch the animals. She even let her
uncle carry her throughout most of the store to boot!
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| Baby and a moose... |
Once Bethany was free, we picked her up and headed to
Pepperjax Grill for some food. It was actually really funny to see Ellie's face
as Bethany hopped in the back seat next to her change from one of confusion to
one of pure excitement. After finishing our lunch and returning Bethany to her
place of employment, I gave Ryan a quick driving tour of the Legends district
before heading home for Ellie's naptime. By the time our adventure was done,
what I thought would be an hour trek turned into a three hour detour. That was
just fine with me though.
We weren't quite done with our adventures for the day yet
though. Once Ellie awoke from her afternoon nap, Ryan and I loaded her up in the stroller
for a trip to the park. It was nice because I just kind of sat back and relaxed
while we were there as Uncle Ryan enjoyed some bonding time with his only
niece. I didn't even have to push the stroller!
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| Aww... |
As a whole, I feel like the experience of hanging out with a
guy besides me was really good for Ellie as she's been hesitant to interact
with men lately. Even her "Uncle" Malachi and both grandfathers have
been no exception to this. Hopefully she's finally coming out of her weird
little shell now. Who knew that all it would take was a visit from her Uncle
Ryan. #DaddyWrite
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