At home with Mr. Fever

I was going to work from home yesterday, Thursday, since Katie is at home doing school work that day and Finn is at daycare. We were even going to go out for lunch! But then about 11 a.m. we got the dreaded "Finn is sick--come and get him" call. So there went our plans...except we still went out for lunch with Finn, after Finn's nap and his liquid Motrin. :) He's had a fever off and on, but today he's been feeling better. I stayed home with him again all day. I even had to cancel my lecture! It'd actually been awhile since we'd had a "Daddy Friday." Since September, probably.

Finn has a love/hate relationship with hats. Firstly, only baseball caps will do. All others are removed. I think it's because I wear that style of hat. But even caps get taken off after maybe a half-hour, then after that it is off and on every minute. You really gotta fight him. Katie ordered him this quite stylish Minnesota Twins hat which showed up at or door at 7 a.m. today. We tried it out this afternoon at the park, with positive results. Here you can see him showing it off while playing with a cat toy. I could tell he wasn't his normal self at the park: when given the options of going on the slide some more, or going home, he clearly favored calling it a day. (BTW: Ah, communication--it makes parenting easier.)

Finn's a dinosaur!

Maybe Yoshi. Maybe Godzilla.He seemed to like the costume, at least this part. The giant dino-feet slippers were a big no since he learned to walk, and the hat is EVIL GET IT OFF. We were going to get some full-outfit pics anyway, but it was pretty grey out this weekend, and my camera is... ill. No flash photos for us for a while. If you don't mind turning your head sideways, here's a movie. I know we have software to rotate it somewhere, but I figured you'd rather watch it this year.

Sideways Finnzilla from Katie on Vimeo.

And here's me and Jonathan as Mario and Luigi on Friday night. Yay babysitters!

We saw 3 other Marios at the party, but no other Luigis. Did you know that when you buy overalls on Amazon (at least in late September), it helpfully tells you that other customers purchasing overalls also bought red newsboy caps, white gloves, and fake mustaches? So we weren't too surprised that there were others.
I showed up at day care in the costume and Finn was absolutely terrified. Then I took off the mustache, and he looked at his teacher, and back at me, and grinned. "That's my mama! Did you know she was here? What a clever ruse." He also consented to wear my hat for nearly five minutes.
HIS hat, not so much, and now he's thinking about declaring war on his hair. It just will not come off, but he hasn't gotten too upset about it yet, and only yanks at it a couple times a day when he re-discovers that it's up there.

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