my little alarm clock

In an effort to condition both of us for my return to work Friday, I decided I would start waking up at a reasonable hour. Logan usually gets up to eat sometime between 530 and 630, which seemed like a great time to start our day. So this morning, instead of cuddling and begging him to go back to sleep, I drug myself out of bed, flipped on the lights, and started making breakfast. Of course, the little turkey fell right back to sleep. I'm up and at 'em, so I guess I'll try to get a few things done. There are plenty of tomorrows to try (and likely fail) to establish a routine. It seems, with my friends, that babies seem to know when Mom's going back to work and seem to eat & sleep better and fall into somewhat of a pattern. I'm not too concerned. We'll get there.

I'm sorry its been so long since our last post. I know there are several of you who check in daily. We had a GREAT weekend. Dale had Friday off, so we decided to sneak away briefly to relax a little bit before things get more hectic. We went over to Des Moines (its not a staycation if you leave the state, right?) Let me back up. After listening to my friendly weatherman, I made a quick trip to the store on Friday to gather some cold weather/snow gear for Logan. As you all know, the "dusting of snow that won't stick because the ground temperature is too warm" turned in to 5 inches ! Logan and I stood at the window at 3am (his decision, not mine) to watch the first snow of the season. . . in October!)

Anyway, Saturday we drove to Des Moines and met our niece, Allyssa (who's a SENIOR at Simpson already! Holy cow! We're very proud of her!) for lunch. Thereafter we just relaxed. It was wonderful! Allyssa got to engage in some good cuddle time with Logan, Dale got to watch some serious football, and I snuck over to the baby store where I buy most of my diapers and picked up a few things. Sunday was a slow moving day (perfect!) with highlights: lunch with Allyssa and Andrew, a stop at World Market (I SO miss that store here, as many of you know). Browsing through the store made me very excited to start decorating our house (I promise we're getting close(r) to closing). I was like a kid in the candy store looking at everything. I'm hoping for a return trip after we move in so I can scope out the situation. My brother once wrote a letter to Target asking them to open a SuperTarget in his town. Indeed, I wrote to World Market begging them not to close the Omaha stores. They didn't listen.

Okay, so now we're home and back to the endless pile of laundry and dishes and beautiful autumn weather (hardly). I will not complain however, because I get to spend the days with our healthy, beautiful little guy.

Have a GREAT week. I anticipate good news from this direction later this week.

Much Love-- Dale, Michelle & Logan