A day at work

John's school was closed today for Rosh Hashanah. I brought him to work with me. It was raining this morning, while in the car headed to the dealership and John said "It's too yucky to go to work." Kinda hard to disagree with that. But I said "Sorry Buddy, we gotta go to work even when it is raining outside." 

We had a pretty unevntful day. John sat at his desk (yes, he has his own desk in my office) and worked on a big picture. He also did some homework too. He assisted me when I went downstairs. Mr. Carlos told John that he could be in charge today (since Mimi wasn't in), but John said "No." Mr. Carlos continued to encourage him and said "You could send all of us home." John again said "No." We told him that Pop-Pop would be very proud. 

We had lunch together and he got to watch some cartoons. 

He did spend a good part of his day playing his DS. 

But he did get to try out the Harley that was in the showroom. 

All in a days work. 

Are you sure?

John and Gillian came to work with me again this morning. Daddy had an early morning appointment and was planning on picking them after he was done. So they were only at the office for a short time. We started the morning by drawing pictures. While drawing Gillian asked "When are your friends coming?" 

After being really good for awhile, Mimi and I let them watch a show. I turned put on the Cars movie for them to watch. After a few minutes John came to find me and said "Finding Nemo is on. And we don't want to watch it." I went into the conference room to change the channel and Gillian was staring at the TV. She shouted "Nemo!" Apparently not everyone wanted to change the channel. As I started to look for a new show, Gillian cried. And John said to her "Are you sure you want to watch Nemo? After the mom and the other kids died? Are you sure?" Thanks John. Thanks for making her aware of how sad that movie starts. I changed the channel. Gillian pouted for thirty seconds and John stopped talking about fish dying.

A day at the office

Yesterday John was scheduled off from school and I had planned to bring him to work with me. We woke up yesterday morning and Gillian's school had a 10:00 am start and Daddy had a 10:30 start. So the only options were for me to wait out Gillian's delay or bring her to work with me. I decided to bring her to work. I packed up a bunch of activities for the kids and we headed to the office. (On a side note, I work at my in-law's car dealership and it is not a problem to bring the kids to work)

We stopped at the service center to drop off some Valentine's cookies for the employees. Aunt Missy met us at the door. She asked "Who wants to stay with Aunt Miss?" Gillian raised her hand and said "I do!" I got Gillian out of the car and she and Aunt Missy went to work. John and I went over to the sales building and started our day. We have an extra desk in our office that John has claimed. John hung out at his desk playing games on his DS. I was able to get some work done too. Mimi came in and John told her "It's really hot by my desk!" (His desk is by the window.) Mimi had a solution, she made him a little fort. 

He loved his little fort. He also convinced Mimi to add another tablecloth to the fort so it was bigger and the sun didn't make him hot. Uncle T came inside and asked John to help him with the plow truck. When they were done, John said "Uncle T drived and I got to do the plow. I made it go up and down!"

Meanwhile, Gillian was having a great time in the service department. Every time a tech or another employee came into Aunt Missy's office, Gillian would point at them and say "Who's that? What they doing here?" Gillian was very busy and she made pictures for Uncle T, Mimi, Miss Sharon and me too. Gillian and Aunt Missy walked over to the sales building in time for lunch. Gillian was not happy when she saw that John had a nameplate for his desk. John only has a nameplate, because Poppy modified it for him.

Notice the masking tape? It's covering Poppy's middle initial E. Anyway, Gillian asked "Where's my name?" Aunt Missy made Gillian a nameplate out of card stock. Gillian wasn't happy. "I want a wood one!"

The kids had a little picnic in John's fort. 

The picnic was short lived. Gillian ended up eating at my desk. And I ended up with peanut butter on my monitor. I packed the kids extra snacks and juice boxes thinking that they would have some for an afternoon snack. Well Gillian ate everything in her lunch bag. 

After lunch the kids played games on the iPad and my phone. When Mimi came back from her meeting, she set the kids up in the conference room with Disney Junior on TV. 

They spent the rest of the day hanging out in the conference room watching cartoons, relaxing and drawing pictures. It was a long day for them and they were very good. 

Dealership

Today, we went to the dealership to visit Mimi, Poppy, Uncle T and Aunt Missy. Plus, on Memorial Day Mimi always cooks hot dogs for the customers so the kids were able to get lunch too. The kids shared a hot dog and had some popcorn too. We spent some time talking to Aunt Missy and then the kids went inside for an adventure. I stayed outside with Aunt Missy. Before I realized it, we heard a loud crash. Gillian had walked into one of the floor to ceiling windows. Daddy brought her outside to me. Poor Gillian was crying. She said to me "The window! The window hurt my nose!" While I was consoling Gillian, Daddy told me that tho was the second window she walked into.  She did the same thing just a few minutes earlier in the sales manager's office. Poor little lady isn't used to all those glass walls. 

John loved being at the dealership. He loved running around the showroom and testing out the new cars. He also loved helping the customers when they came over for a hot dog. He would show them where the drinks were and point out the snacks too. He was so sad when it was time to go. He didn't even say good bye to everyone. He was having too much fun.