I took my nephew out for a day date today and learned the following:
He talks a lot more than me, which I didn't think was actually even possible and about 80% of what he says are questions.
Kids are curious; he wanted to know everything about everything and everyone.
My go, go, go mentality and way of life was put in ultimate slow motion -- he walks slow. At one point I was almost tempted to pick him up and carry him because I just don't live life in the slow lane.
I have a 1 in 3 chance on the subway of someone giving up their seats for us when I walk on with a little kid.
It's incredibly hard to teach kids not to talk to strangers when almost everyone they come across either smiles at them, asks them a question or wants to talk to them.
My nephew's gray eyes, platinum blond hair, fair skin, and soft spoken voice makes him a magnet for attention in public.
People are very quick to throw compliments when you have an adorable kid with you and the compliments aren't solely directed towards him but also me. Funniest compliment today was "He's so cute, he looks just like you!" I thought it funny because he's my brother's wive's sister's kid so technically he's not really my family but is connected to me via marriage.
Am pretty sure half of those who saw us together thought I was a young single parent and so I found myself making sure he was on par with his P's and Q's (please and thank yous).
The energy it requires to keep up with a 7 year old verses the energy for me to keep up with both my boxing and weight training is uncomparable; it's exhausting. Props to the parents of the world but I think I rather just box!
I realized I'd be a super overprotective parent if I was one because today's biggest challenge was having to go pee and finding a way to keep an eye on him as I used a public bathroom. I made him stand against my door so that I could see his feet and I told him if anyone approached him to scream as loud as he could. I also had to give him medicine so I must have asked his dad over and over to go over the details and instructions with that. I even set my phone alarm to remind me when I had to give it to him.
I talk to kids as there were adults but just shorter -- I'm not all cutesy with my talk or talk on a different level with them. The cutesy talk annoys the heck out of me.
I really don't know what to do with a kid in terms of entertaining them so I used food as a means of preoccupy him today. I took him for a hot chocolate date and bought him a hot chocolate and cookie, we went to a grocery store to see what we wanted to eat for dinner, and then later on the plan was to take him to my apartment to cook him supper but his brother's appointment ended earlier than expected so he had to go back to Sick Kids.
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