On the weekends when the weather is nice as it has been for the past few weeks, I like to drink my coffee outside on the patio and enjoy the morning. Last weekend, I did just that. Cooper was up already so we had some breakfast and then headed outside. I was wondering how I would contain him seeing as how he crawls and whatnot and I came up with a brilliant idea. Some family friends gave us a few things a couple months ago and one of them was a plastic fence type thing that can be made into a playpen of sorts. So, I ran to the garage and got that set up outside and put a bunch of blankets and toys in and then plopped Cooper down and started reading and enjoying my coffee. Cooper was enjoying himself for awhile (and by 'awhile' I mean one minute tops), figuring out how to get his shapes into his sippy cup. He started to get restless.
I stopped reading my book and got up to try and get him resettled. After I sat in his playpen with him for a few minutes, he was fine again and I snuck out and back to my book and coffee. I began re-reading the paragraph I was in because I was interrupted. About 45 seconds later, he started to whine.
At this point I figured my reading time was as good as over and I grabbed the camera. His retort to my picture taking was to look sad and dejected and as cute as possible.
Then he got really mad, spit out his binkie and looked up to the sky as if to say 'why are you keeping me in this prison?'
He won, I took him out. I put him in his swing and sat behind him reading, drinking my coffee, and pushing him every once in awhile. We made it at least 30 minutes out there, but I didn't get much reading done. The whole point was to enjoy my coffee out on the patio, but I worked for it. One day, I'll look back on this and laugh... right?!?!
~Ahna
Those pictures are awesome! I can't stop laughing at his sad little face in the last two. He looks so mad yet so cute at the same time. :)