Keary Cockapus

This weekend I had the pleasure of having joint custody of Oseia for the weekend while his parents enjoyed some adults-only time at the Beach with some friends.

First of all, Oseia is super fun to hang out with, so I want to steal him for some auntie time whenever possible. But the clincher is that he is also easy. I mean, crazy easy.

Mom and dad hit the road while he was napping, so he woke up to only find Lollie (that’s me) in the house. Mir had let him know that they were leaving for the weekend, but still, I’d imagine that it’s still a shock to wake up and find your parents missing. He sat down next to me on the sofa, assessed the situation, then turned to me and asked, “Lollie, where’s Mommy? To which I replied, “Mommy and Daddy went to the beach for the weekend.” He thought about it, it registered, and he got a bit sad. But he bit that bottom lip, let the tears well up for a minute, then said, “Lollie… play train?” Sure thing, kid, that’s what I’m talking about. Fight through the pain.

He also found dinner for himself (yes, he’s that easy). Granted it was yogurt, strawberries and sandwich meat, but he was happy. And for the record, it ended up being my dinner as well. We did lots of playing talking about lamommalaqueen (Lightning McQueen), then got his jammies on and read a few books before bedtime. I told Oseia that we could read one more book before he went to bed and once that was done I simply said, “Okay, time to go night night.” He got up, walked into his room and got into bed. I simply followed, tucked him in a gave him a kiss goodnight. Fabulous.

The next morning at 7:00am I heard the pitter-patter (a.k.a. stomping) off little feet searching for mommy and daddy. He’s two, so I don’t fault him for the short-term memory. So I yelled where that I was in the computer room and he bounds in a jumped on the futon and off we were for our morning adventure. That boy can play till the cows come home and has an awesome imagination.

Katie came over at 11:00am for a group excursion to the Aquarium, where we had a little adventure in the precursor to Snowpocalypse 2012, but that another story. The real story is Oseia – he was so excited to go see the fishes, but once we got there everything was scary. Luckily Katie has a pass, so she can take him back over and over again until he gets comfortable. We were able to see the new otter pup who was less than a week of and a big, adorable fluff or fur. Below are a couple of pics just outside the otter area, where you can see that the snow has really started to come down. I am a bad auntie in that I did not bring him any kind of snow protection, so you’ll see that he wearing my hat which it was too big. When the three of us would walk together, he’d have one have holding mine and the other holding Katie’s and the hat would fall down to his chin, covering his eyes. He’d just keep walking along, blindly, knowing that his aunties had him safe and sound.

When she got home, Mir asked Oseia is he had fun; this is her transcript of their conversation:

I asked him if he had a good time with you and he said, “no, Lollie keary cockapus”. You should hear him tell about the octopus incident it’s hilarious! It goes a little something like this, “Keary cockapus, I say Lollie! Lollie! I say Kayee, Kayee. Keary cockapus.”

Which is actually pretty accurate, haha! Katie and I were trying to encourage Oseia to look at the sleeping octopus, but he was totally cool on that because it was too scary. He did kind of plead with each of us to not have to look at the octopus. But we were excited. He won’t be scarred for life, I’m sure. But WTF, Oseia, what about all of the train track building, the dancing, the riding around on my back like I’m your own personal horse?? You focus on the one scary thing. C’mon man!

Just means I need to steal him again sometime soon.

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