Fridays with FIL

Itchy, Stowa and I spent the weekend with FIL. He was just as annoying as we expected him to be.

I really wanted to stop at a fabric store so that I could get started on some stuff for Little Dude. I made a bunch of stuff for Stowa and I want to make stuff for Little Dude too. So that was our first stop. I got some really cute stuff. Itchy even helped pick some of it out. Stowa did too. I thought about taking pics but haven't gotten around to it.

Then we went to dinner for a belated birthday dinner for Itchy. Crab is delicious.

After dinner we stopped at Target. It felt like we were there forever but we did get a lot done. We picked up a bunch of stuff that we needed/wanted. Including a grill. Yay!

Then we headed over to FIL's house. He startled Stowa when we came in and she was hysterical. If he had just chilled, she would have been ok. But instead he has to speak very loudly and clap a lot. Oh and banging on the table. Because you know, when she was 6 months old she thought clapping was really fun. And when she was 9 months old banging on the table was hilarious. Friday night? Yeah it was just freaking her out.

Saturday morning FIL HAD to go play racquetball. He plays a lot. It's his thing. I'm glad he has a hobby. However, when you bitch and whine about never seeing Stowa maybe, just maybe, you could skip one morning of racquetball. He left early and said he'd be home by noon. We sat around waiting for him until 12:30 and when he still wasn't home or answering his phone, we left to go get some stuff done. He called at like 1 and was pissed. Whatever. Toddlers and waiting around do not mix. We had stuff to do and he knew that.

Anyway, we meet up with him Saturday afternoon. He wanted to go shopping. This is all he ever wants to do. Great. It's fun to go into a store and get pretty much whatever you want and not worry about the price. So we went shopping for baby clothes. Little Dude has some blue stuff in addition to a lot of yellow and green. Stowa got a couple pairs of pants for the fall. The ride to the mall was much more interesting. FIL was suggesting baby names. All three of his kids have names that end in "an". He thinks this baby should rhyme with their names. When Itchy shot down the first 3 rhyming names, FIL moved on to biblical names. Only he wanted them pronounced the way he pronounces them. My personal favorite: Denise. Yep he suggested a woman's name. It was good stuff.

Next we went to lunch. Itchy was trying out a new rule with FIL. No restaurants with wait staff. FIL is awkward around waitresses and waiters. It worked out pretty well.

FIL bitched the entire time we were shopping and eating because he played racquetball and his knee hurts after playing. Which meant that he really couldn't do anything. Walking around was out of the question. He made us drive to the other side of the mall so he could go buy underwear and white t-shirts. Since Stowa can "wander" off I didn't have to help him. She was very interested in some socks. FIL did ask Itchy to help him though. Because every 30 yr old guy likes to help his dad pick out underwear. Totally made me laugh.

After that we ditched FIL because he was exhausted and hurt from his busy morning. We hung out with some friends. Good times.

Sunday morning FIL was annoyed that Stowa wanted to play outside in the back yard and not sit around doing nothing. He wouldn't come off the deck to play, he just wanted her to go sit up there. There were flowers to pick and rocks to sort. She wasn't going to go sit anywhere.

Since FIL had to go to work, we spent the afternoon at the zoo. It was pretty fun. We went to the much smaller zoo in town. Stowa was a little grumpy but she made it through.

We met with FIL for dinner before we left. He chose the restaurant so we had to break the rule. He behaved pretty well. Other then complaining about where we were sitting, where we parked, where he parked, and he was trying to get Stowa to misbehave.