Day 227...a good visit soothes, some.

Sept 3

I had this grand idea that I was going to get up and make blue berry pancakes, before we packed up, and headed down to Rachel's for the day. Well, first of all Martyn slept in the crib all night, and when he got up at 5:45 he didn't cry. I heard him moving around in the crib and woke up, and got him and brought him back to bed for a bit, then changed his diaper. He went back to sleep and let us go back to sleep, until 8:30! That was some serious sleeping in, and it was awesome! I think that's the first full night sleep I've gotten in weeks. It feels that way anyway.

So we didn't get the early start on the morning that I anticipated we would. I did make blue berry pancakes and was reminded of how bad I am at it....I guess they were ok. We didn't end up getting out of the house until noon or so. We had intended to leave around 11. Traffic was pretty bad on the freeway because there was a fire or something, so I thought maybe it would be faster to take HWY. 99. I don't know why I always get tricked by going that way.

I always forget how it bottles up in Dundee, and just takes for-friggin-ever. I don't know if that way was faster or not. Oh well though.

It was pretty hot out side, and by the time we got there, around 2:15 or so, both of us were ready to be inside for a while. Martyn had a nice nap the whole way, and woke up when we got there. He was quite happy and content to play on the floor and crawl/scoot all over. He is SO close to crawling....it's almost agonizing watching him try because he's just so close! His new thing is to get up on his hands and feet, and stick his butt way up in the air. But then he doesn't really know what to do, so he'll just rock to one side or the other and sit on his butt. He's pretty fast with that army crawl/scoot, but you can tell he wants to be crawling on his hands and knees, and today was totally doing that....for a few seconds at a time. He would crawl a couple "steps" then flatten out onto his belly and army crawl the rest of the way. It was a lot of fun to just play around and watch him, on the big area rug in the middle of the living room.

We had a good visit, and some awesome dinner. Eli and I both ate way too much. It was kind of too hot to go walk down to the park and play disc golf like we thought we might be doing. That's ok though. We were both pretty ready to just crash when we got home. It was a good day.