The Siege of The Pillow Tower

Not a whole lot new this week.  Mara was on call twice this week, so most of the week was spent with Mara recovering post call, and Dad trying to wear Rohan out.  That is becoming increasingly difficult.
Mara being on call usually means we get to meet for lunch the next day since she is usually off around 11am.  It's been nice to have the break in the day too, and walk around downtown PHX without Rohan.  When she is on call I usually follow our normal routine of taking him to the park across the street and kick the soccer ball around.  From last week's post you can see how much he loves to run!  This week there was a huge tournament there, and all the fields were taken. There is plenty of room on the sidelines so we can still kick it around. Rohan usually just watches everyone else play though. This last time a ball went out of bounce came right over to us and he ran up to it and kicked it about 15 feet back towards the field. Everyone around us clapped and was pretty impressed that a 20 mo-old was that coordinated. Rohan was pretty proud of his achievement...:) The rest of Saturday morning was spent watching/playing football, and building a kick ass fort. We used his tent from his room as a bedroom, the mattress from our hide-a-way as a hallway, and all the cushions and blankets we could find. It reminded me a lot of when we used to build forts at G&G's farm using the spare mattress on the stairs in the breezeway...good memories...:) The dogs eventually got curious and Schroeder got a little rowdy and knocked most of it down. Rohan didn't seem to mind and kept jumping on everything and tearing the rest down. Greg swung by and grabbed Chipotle with us. He's been working and studying so much it was nice to catch up with him a little as we he was on his way to a clinical rotation in the ER. FUN!
Sunday, after Mara got off work, we grabbed some picnic items and hit up a park Mara came across on one of her Peds rotations called Desert Horizon Park.  It was an awesome park with tons of play equipment, swings, open spaces, and Rohan's favorite, a baseball game!  There was a game between two Hispanic League teams.  We watched 4-5 innings of it before Rohan started passing out on his way home on his soccer ball.
We spent the rest of Sunday grocery shopping for cookie ingredients and other essentials.  Mara and Rohan made cookies (with toffee!!!) while I watched football and ate cookie dough.  After supper and relaxing we reserected an old favorite of Rohan's, the pillow tower. He attacked the tower with ferocity for over an hour. Mara and I even got in the action and wore our selves out in the process...:)
Hope everyone had a great weekend. I heard it snowed in WI...that's a shame...:P


Turn your back for one second and Rohan does this:


Rohan still LOVES to attack the pillow tower:



Mom's turn to lead the charge:


Dad's turn!:


For those who want to the experience of the pillow attack, here is a first person view: