Jude always begs me to take him to work (Levi too — he says “I too, I too, I too” whenever I leave for work). I decided today would be a good day for Jude to join me at work for a couple hours since Andy and the boys picked me up in the afternoon for an occupational therapy (fine motor skills) evaluation for Jude and then there were only a couple hours left in the work day after that.  After Jude and I got dropped off, we went to CandyLand to picks out some treats and then to Target so he could pick out a new toy from the dollar bin. Then we went to work.  It was kind of a disaster.  I didn’t want to announce he was visiting until towards there was only about a half hour left in the day so I could actually get some work done without nice visitors stopping by. I told him to be quiet like a mouse so I could work with the door shut. He struggled with being quiet. I picked up a phone call and the little stinker in Jude came out. He started writing all over my bare arms with 3 different colors of markers while I was trying to pay attention to a difficult fact scenario.  I’m sure he knew I couldn’t yell at him while on the call and that he could get away with it.  Then he started laughing loudly in the background. I finally had to announce to the caller I had a little helper at work today. I was so annoyed with him and we jointly decided that he shouldn’t come to work with me until he’s 8.  After a stern talking to, he was perfect for me the rest of the day.  But, he did get in trouble from the bus driver on the way home since he didn’t want to sit down and preferred standing in the aisle while balancing and holding onto nothing.
Earlier in the day when we went to Children’s Hospital, Jude said, “Why do I go here everyday. Â It’s like I live here.”