Life as a Single Dad -- Days 3 & 4

Day 3:

We did an "official" outing yesterday and went to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. I had never been there before so I wasn't sure what to expect but it was a cool place, I'd highly recommend it. On the way there though we had a little run in with the law...

Okay, prior to this past month I have been pulled over a grand total of 3 times in my life. In the last month I've doubled that quota and have been pulled over 3 times in the past month alone. The 1st time I was definitely speeding and just wasn't paying attention to the speed limit (I was going 54 in a 35) I leveled with the cop, told him exactly what happened and he let me off with a warning. Whew! The 2nd time I got pulled over right by our house for not coming to a complete stop on a right hand turn when I had a red light. That ticket ticked me off because all four directions had red, while North and South bound traffic had green left hand turn arrows. I figured I was fine to go. I fought it, went to court and lost... GRRRRRR! The 3rd time happened yesterday. A local officer started tailing me really bad, trying to get me to speed. So I let off my gas and slowed down to below 20 mph. I then started to wave him by. He threw on his lights and pulled me over. When he threw on his lights I started yelling "Oh come on you freaking jerk!" All of which Brooklyn heard. So when the officer asked me why I was going to slow the first thing he heard was Brooklyn yelling "you stupid jerk!" Good times for me! Luckily he laughed about that. I told him that I didn't appreciate him running his car through my spare tire and that I felt like he was trying to bait me into a speeding ticket. I told him that it was dishonest what he was doing and that if he chose to give me a ticket for going to slow (which he threatened to do) I would fight it tooth and toe nail with his superiors. He let me off with a warning. :)

After the whole bad cop incident we ended up at the aquarium. See pics above. Carson and Brooklyn both loved it. I let Brooklyn be our tour guide and just followed her wherever she wanted to go. She really enjoyed that. Carson loved the sting ray pool where you can touch actual sting rays. One jumped up and rubbed noses with Dooder. He laughed his head off but Brooklyn screamed. Carson's younger than her but braver already.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful.

Day 4:

Today Brooklyn officially started to really miss her mommy. Both her and Carson have been crying quite a bit today. Every time Carson sees me and realizes that I'm not Britney he starts to cry. I should be offended by it, but I'm not, because I know why they miss her, she's amazing with them. Brooklyn's been telling me all day about everything that I'm doing differently than mommy and that she doesn't like it. All day... :) It's definitely time for Brit to come home from her Vampire Homage tour. Luckily she'll be home tomorrow night. Brooklyn was excited when Brit's parents came over to tend tonight so that Britney's dad and I could go see Transformers 2. (Good flick, lots of action, some very odd crude humor though that almost ruined the whole movie. I'd still recommend it, but Star Trek was definitely better.) I think Brooklyn enjoyed the break from my constant teasing. :)

I've had a lot of fun though being a stay at home dad for a few days. I've got some great kids, who have exercised a lot of patience to have to deal with me for as long as they have. I'm lucky to have them.