Aug 2
Martyn got to have a fun adventure day with the baby sitter. Her daughter's 2nd birthday was today, and she had planned to take her kids and Martyn, and several other kids (with their parents) to Oaks park, in SE Portland. I've never been, but I guess it's a small amusment park for toddlers? Sounds like they all had a blast, and it was a nice day to boot.
She told me they took Martyn on the little train ride and he liked it. Mostly he liked watching the kids on the other rides, and on the merry-go-round. I wish I could have been there, but I'm glad he had a good day even with out me. My baby sitter is so cool!
Eli had aranged with a repair shop by our house, to drop the truck off over night and they would check it out/fix it tomorrow. We had figured the battery was just dead from whatever was draining it, so we would jump it with my car and drive it down there.
No such luck. We ended up having to tow it with my car. Now, it's only about a mile and half away, but it's a big fat pain in the butt mile and a half. We live in a very hilly area. At least it was late in the evening, just before dark actually, and there wasn't much traffic.
I've had to move cars around like that many times in my life, with my brother. It's been a long time since I've had to do that, and I've forgotten just how stressful and nerve racking it is. This time, we had Martyn in the car too, which made it even more nerve racking for me....even though I was tow-ee. Martyn was perfectly fine. Mama was not. I totally rode the brakes the whole way...poor Eli was a little frustrated with me by the time we got there, but not angry. He did a good job at helping my nerves calm back down.
We both really missed spending time with Martyn, because of that whole mess. Hopefully tomorrow night, we'll be able to spend some quality time with him and each other in the evening.
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