One of the most fun times I’d had in recent memory happened this past Monday. It was a court holiday (thank you, Cesar Chavez), so Mr. W thought he’d take advantage by taking the day off and addressing some car issues he’s had. Nothing big, turned out he had a nail in a tire which the dealership charged $33 to patch (ouch). He could’ve gotten it done for free at America’s Tire, where I go, but he already had his car there for an oil change so he just paid the extra. That’s not the fun part, in case you’re wondering what the heck is wrong with me.

When Mr. W got the call that his car was ready for pick-up, we put Allie in my car’s carseat (forward-facing for the first time, but we had to because we had to move to the next carseat size up and it didn’t fit properly backward facing. Allie is past the legal height and weight requirements for mandatory backward-facing, altho the recommendation is back-facing until age 2. She’s still backward-facing in Mr. W’s car, which we use to transport her 99.9% of the time), I drove, Mr. W climbed in the front passenger seat. I popped in a Pussycat Dolls CD, and I could see in the rear-view mirror and when I’d glance over my shoulder for a lane change that Allie was bopping along to the music, but whenever I or Mr. W would turn and look at her, she’d stop and just solemnly look back at us, first at one, blink, then eyeballs roll to the other parent, blink, eyeballs roll back to the first parent. Mr. W commented she looked like she was watching a very serious ping pong ball match.

Soon we dropped Mr. W off, and it was just Allie and me in my car driving home. The music came back again, and THIS time, she wiggle-wiggled to the music, bobbed her head, threw her hands in the air to the beat, smiled and laughed. I car-danced with her to PCD’s “Wait a Minute” and we both laughed and watched each other (me being careful to only turn around during red lights, of course). I guess she was just self-conscious when dada was in the car with her. She has been Team Mommy for awhile now. It made for a great drive home.