Sleepyhead

Kiddo slept 17 hours last Saturday. Woke up at 8, then back for a nap from 1-5, and still dead tired by 7. I woke up from my post-call nap before he woke up from his and that after only sleeping 2 hours to his 12 during the night before. I'm just a little jealous.

Today his daycare nap was lacking in length which resulted in a somewhat fussy little boy who crashed and burned at 5pm this evening. I thought that surely I could keep him up at least until six but by 5 he was begging to go to bed which in Lucas world consists of an emotional meltdown. I put him in bed at 5:20. Grabbed his "lulu" or Schnulli (pacifier for the English speaking ones of you) and his monkey Morris, rolled over, and I haven't heard a peep since. I think we have exhausted my sweet boy with our schedules this month. But early bedtime will do him good. Waking him back up at a quarter to six in the morning to get him to daycare before another call starts. Matty's spending another night at the hospital tonight. He did the math for our crazy month the other day... we have 46 days between a day off together and 20 of those one or the other of us will be away on call. Looking forward to a less crazy schedule soon, that's for sure.

Yum!

Quick smoothie snack before bed

Football Time

We headed out to our first football game of the season yesterday. Score was horrible. Not talking about it. Otherwise we had fun. The rain during the day cooled it off to a perfect temperature and Lucas loved the hustle and bustle of it all. He put on his new Vandy shirt. Felt cool. Learned to cheer "Go Dores!" with a "wuh-wuh-wuh" and a fist pump. Proud dad. Proud grandpa. Mission accomplished. Here are some pics from the day:

Heading across the quad to the game with the former Mr. Commodore. Luca knows famous people!

Little feet = tired feet. Hitching a ride with Dad:

Crazy fans!

Aunt Beverly with sweet baby cousin Graham:

Taking a break and checking out the view from the 60th row:

Family Pic in Vandy Gear:

Goofing with Grandpa:

And because I could't resist. Here's a little flashback to last year's football season. How much my little one has grown in the last year. Still amazes me.

Visit with the Fam

After spending all summer in Germany my family's finally back in the States. They first came up to visit us and then Lucas and I went down for a quick Bham visit. Yay! Luca had a great time getting to hang out with his "ma," "papa" (I guess he hears me call him that), and "jay-jay" (we tried "jenny" but apparently jj is easier).

At Dragon Park:

With Jen on the "superfast" carousel. Lucas wouldn't ride the animals. Usually so fearless but apparently carousels are scary.

Shopping in the toy store:

Riding the "neigh" at the Y. Can't blame him, I don't really think it looks like a turtle either.

Quick trip to the Zoo:

Window shopping:

Sweet Words

Kiddo just said "love you" (or something sounding similar) back to me when I put him in bed. Makes my mommy heart melt. Exactly what I needed after a long day at work. I have the best little boy ever!

Visiting Aunt Whitley ("Wiwi")

August has been a +/- month for me in terms of my work schedule. I'm either in the ER all the time or not at all for a few days. It's one of the few months I get a chance to go out of town and I finally grasped the opportunity to visit my former roomie Whitley in Lexington before she leaves the South again.

Aunt "Wiwi" is one of Lucas' absolute favorites and spoils him like no other so of course we had a great time. I'm not sure Lucas wanted to come home with me, but luckily I'm still stronger (for now).

Whitley is known for her baking skills and is always keeping everyone well fed so of course a warm batch of chocolate chip cookies was waiting on us when we got there. Mmm. Not to mention that Whitley baked more cookies for us on day #2 while Lucas and I were both napping. I think I'm going to trade in my curent roommate for my old roommate... no offense Matty, you just need to work on your baking skills.

Cookies, new toys, and Muppets on TV (life does not get much better for a 1.5 year old)

Whitley's muppet collection. Missing is Lucas new favorite Beaker (known as "Mee-mee")...he was napping. Lucas loved these!

Pool Time!

Rocking the sun glasses ... child you look like a goober.

Post swim

Trip to Keeneland

Lucas now thinks tractors race here

Lucca w/ Mommy

Gambling starts young

Loving the Playground

Yes, he attempted to climb that. Glad I was there to catch him.

Bath ...

...and Story before Bed

Exhausted on our way home

Animal Sounds