"Aunt Header's"

This past weekend, Garrett & I headed to visit Heather. Matt was going to help Chris set up for hunting season, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to go up to Dallas. The drive up went fine, we left at dinner time on Thursday, G got to eat french fries and chicken nuggets in the car, and watch movies, he did great until we saw the Dallas skyline, then the rest of the trip was "Where's Header" at one point, he shouted out, "Header, where are you?" Yes, this sounds cute, but after 45 minutes, I'd had enough! But, other then getting to bed very late, he was a very good boy. He did not sleep well, he would only sleep in bed with us, and he woke up a few times just crying, he wasn't even fully awake, he'd just sit there crying, if i tried to touch him, he'd get worse, so I'd sing and he'd fall back to sleep, one time he draped himself over Heather, she was sound asleep and didn't seem to mind so i went back to sleep.

Friday, Heather had to work, so we decided to go with her, let G play in the kids center and i would work out, gasp! i know!! Well, he was so tired, and it was pretty crowded, so he refused, Heather took him to her office, she has a door she can close and I still got my workout in, we all met up for lunch and then G and i went back to her place to nap, we both napped!! She stopped on her way home to get groceries and after we ate, we walked around outside a bit. He went to bed better, at 9:30 this time, but only if Heather went to, that might be the earliest Heather has been to bed in ages!! He slept much better!

Saturday when he woke up we let Heather sleep in a bit, after we were all up, we went to a nature reserve to take a walk, the path ended at a play area, so we thought it was perfect, G didn't like it so much, he cried and ended up being carried for most of the 1 mile walk. We did get to see a large turtle walking around and G liked that a lot. We almost had a meltdown at the park, but i got him distracted with a stick, after another good nap, and dinner, we went swimming, oh, the water was cold! the sun was down and it had cooled off a little bit, G didn't notice one bit, he jumped right in and Heather was brave enough to get in too, I sat on the edge! We had to bribe him to get out, even though his lips were blue, but ice cream is hard to resist! He went to bed much easier and even slept in!!

Sunday, our plan was to go back to the pool, but G refused to eat breakfast, so no pool. We helped Heather pack up a few more boxes and then we had lunch and headed back. G did not do so well coming home. He watched Lion King and i assumed he'd fall asleep, nope. After Lion King was over, it was well past nap time, but he refused to go to sleep, cried for over an hour, and then i finally reached back and rubbed his foot and he fell right to sleep, but we were only 30 minutes from home! Somehow Matt got him to go back to sleep when we got home, so he ended up getting about an hour and a half nap.

I forgot my camera and was so sad, we had some great moments at Aunt Heathers! Garrett loves Kahlua, Kahlua is terrified of Garrett, that's a major reason she went to live with Heather. He would follow her around, kitty, kitty, and she would run and hide. Aunt Heather had some packing peanuts and boxes and those were a huge source of entertainment for him!! He loved moving those peanuts from box to box, then just dumped them on the floor! Yes, we made a big mess, but we cleaned it up before we left. Heather had the bright idea to let him play with some stamps and ink, i thought it was a good idea too, oops, we were wrong! He got more on himself then the paper, he was green for a few days!

Thank you "Header" for letting us come visit!