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Friday: Worked til 5:30, picked up Adam, biked home, worked until 11:30pm. Then played Wii Sports until after midnight. Hurt shoulder (pathetic, I know) playing Tennis, Baseball and Bowling.

Saturday: Planned on sleeping in, taking it easy and doing more work. Maybe improving Wii baseball and tennis games.

Saturday, actual:
Up at 8:00 a.m. Cleaned dining room and part of kitchen, cleaned living room.
Did more work.
Drove in Amy’s van (thank you, Amy!) to Chicago with Adam, his best friend from daycare, friend’s older brother, and their mother to the Allstate Arena in Rosemont to see The Wiggles!

Car ride down: minimal drama, going pretty well. Thinking that this will be pretty easy.
Concert: some drama, but not too much. Concert kinda sucks. Wiggles officially too old to do good concerts anymore.
Stop at Woodfield Mall to go to the Disney Store and the Lego Store: Incredible, four year old screaming, crying drama (not my kid): LOTS
Drive back to Madison: Drama, then calm with food and Happy Meal toys, then drama, then sleeping by all boys except mine, then wide-awake and wiggly boys: much screeching and yelling and laughing and misbehaving.

Arrival time back at home: 11:15. Adam in bed at 11:45, asleep at approximately 11:47.

Sunday: Awake at 6:15 worried about work. Up at 7, working until 11:30. Then nap, despite being jumped on repeatedly by 4 year old. Then shopping. Then teaching Adam to use Wii controller for car racing games. Then relaxing dinner with friends.

Lessons learned:
4 years old is too young to bring a friend along on an extended car trip.
4 years old is too young to be on your own in the back of a car for that long without immediate adult supervision.
4 year olds are very good at entertaining themselves.
Juice boxes should come in waxy, food-grade boxes. Capri Sun is not a juice box. It is a juice bag. Juice bags are evil, especially in cars.

Adam seemed to have fun and was very well behaved for most of the day. The last 2 hours of the day were a bit too much for him, but overall I was proud of how he conducted himself. Hopefully his last(!) Wiggles concert will be one he remembers as being fun and exciting.