Worn Out

I would have written this post yesterday, but I was too tired. In fact, we were all tired. Nicholas and I were worn out from our week of outings and Joe was worn out from working on his chapter.

We had big plans for our day off of all the fun outings we would take, but it was raining so we just went to the mall (but the big outlet mall with fun decor rather than one of our normal malls) and then over to my parents' house for a bit. And Nicholas was craaaaanky. But even though he was obviously tired, he took a very short afternoon nap and so most of our afternoon and evening was spent trying to get the tired cranky boy to fall asleep. No luck.

But he slept in this morning until 8:45, which means we slept in until almost 8. And so we are now three much happier campers. In fact, he is "helping" me write this post. Oh, he wants so desperately to get to the keyboard.

Anyway, we had a really fun (if exhausting week). Wednesday we went back to the aquarium for music. Once the music time is over after this coming week, we may have to space out our visits more because he seems to be starting to get a little less interested in watching the fish. Understandable. Thursday was pretty mellow, but Friday we went to the mall for music. Unfortunately it was stories and music and he isn't a big fan of the stories. And they were having trouble with their sound system, so there were long pauses in between songs. Nicholas was fine whenever there was singing, but when there were breaks, he would get really antsy and fussy.

Okay, he has now moved everything on my desk that was within his reach to the floor, so I should end this. (This is one of his new things--grabbing everything in sight and dropping it on the floor. Enchanting.) Most of today will be taken up by going to church in shifts, but we're hoping to squeeze in a walk around the neighborhood later since it has finally stopped raining.