Two weeks notice...minus a few days

Patience is a virtue when I am in an organizing mood, and the entire family had enough to get through the weekend.  It's definitely started sinking in that we are under the two week mark; and we are still finalizing everything.  Is it bad when they know your kid's name in West Marine?  Parts are sorted, bagged and tagged...still have to get through the tools and stores.  Poseidon and cat chased each other around giggling, which made preps easier.  He has learned to use the cat toy, much to my amusement, and perhaps to cat's chagrin.

Legos and the stackable bowls (a replacement for the stackable rings we all grew up loving) are still the winners, but his new alphabet books end up scattered across the floor by evening.  All 26 of them.  I think the combination is going to last a while as well.  I have moved the bowls onto the table in a row at the edge.  He can reach them on tiptoes and has definitely increased his confidence in balancing...chortling when he gets one down.  Legos are hauled around as if they were a teddy bear, which is fine by me.  When it's his playtime during the week, I build things and he demolishes them.  Bionicles are not too far out.  How young is too young for a breadboard and some NOR gates? :)

I am pretty sure that he can tell something is going on, and not just because our cabin was off limits (even to us) for two weeks during the re-awakening of the RO (watermaker) and the subsequent sorting of storage areas.  There is an excitement in the air and I am so glad he is coming with us on the trip.  Even knowing that he is too young to remember it, I know he will enjoy it.  The ability to interact with his world is expanding exponentially right now.  He has moved on to clapping and is starting to progress from two words to attempts at much more.  It also looks like he may be walking without holding onto the furniture by the time we leave...definitely going to keep us on our toes.

The plans for next week include trying to make it through more than one day in a row with real food alone, no milk allowed.  We'll see how Poseidon takes that.  While he has 5 teeth now, and the ability to digest almost anything (though a part of a stress ball came out intact), he is not wanting to give up the free meal ticket he sees in me.  To help with the schedules, I am hoping he will cooperate and we'll be feeding four adults and the two kids (one niece) at the table for every meal.  Which leaves the kitchen shake-down and the exterior to go...

See you next week...It's pre-cruise party time!