Parenting: Level Up

[walbourn]

cuddlyeconomist and the wee bairn are down in California for a conference in San Francisco, and her mom flew out to help with the baby and get some bonus time with him. To keep our (vacation) powder dry for later in the summer, I'm staying in Seattle with the Rhys. This is in fact my first long "solo flight" as a parent. So far, so good. We told Rhys he could have a bit more screen time than we've been letting him have this summer mostly trying to limit Chase's screen time.

"Mantivities" have included

• Seeing the movie Brave
  
• Six+ episodes of Psych
  
• Watching him play dozens of levels of Portal 2--he's finished it before with his Dad, so he actually goes pretty quickly
  
• About 6 moves in a game of chess
  
• Assembly of one large Lego set
  
• Listening to a Star Talk podcast
  
• An album's worth of Jonathan Coulton
  
• Picking up his bike (DrB ordered it last week)
  
• Breakfast for dinner last night; Today: Breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, and evening snack (the boys are actually both eating a ton these days)

I even managed to get him in the bath and to bed on schedule for a "camp night" without too much drama. At this point I really only have to get him through dinner and tomorrow night since he's at camp most of the day and his mom gets back on Tuesday.