He stayed awake long enough for us to get home and feed Johnny, and then we went through the drive thru at Smithfields. That seems to be the traditional returning-home meal for Andrew when he gets back from Malaysia. Then, both Andrew and Johnny took about a 2-hour nap! I graded some lab notebooks while they slept. Andrew had a hard time waking up (I woke him up when Johnny woke up), so we went for a walk and on a picnic down at the Springs park. I thought it would be a good activity to keep Andrew awake until a reasonable bedtime. It was fun, although there were more mosquitos than we had really bargained for! Johnny went on to bed around 7, and Andrew at 8.
Oh! Friday Johnny had crawled a "step" or two, but Sunday when I told Andrew that he was doing pretty good with it, I put the phone down about 6 feet away from him on the floor in our bedroom and made it light up, and he crawled all the way there without stopping to sit up! It was pretty slow and measured, but he made it!
So - it is definitely time to do some baby-proofing! Last night we were in his room reading, and then I started sorting through some of his clothes, and he crawled all the way out to the bathroom and went straight for the trash can - remarkable! Andrew stayed home on Monday to spend some quality time with Johnny, and got some good footage of him crawling.
Also, he has been "playing" with his bottom gums with his tongue for about a week now, and has been a little more fussy and really chewing on things, and this afternoon when I went to pick him up at Elsie's, she and Johnny and Marquel (a 2-year old) were out on the swing having a tickle session. Elsie said she was sure he had a tooth coming through, and sure enough, you could see a little white spot! I had been looking for days, but it's so hard to get a look because he covers up with his tongue every time I would try to look! I will try to get a picture in the next few days as it really comes through. He had a hard time settling to sleep, and we ended up giving him some tylenol.
Andrew is slowly getting adjusted to the opposite time zone - I think he should be fully adjusted by the end of the week. He did wake up at 4 am this morning, but was able to fall right back asleep.
Looking forward to this weekend! I have a faculty meeting tomorrow evening, and I'm planning to run some errands after that. Hopefully Friday night Andrew and I can relax and have pizza and a movie night! Saturday my friend Colleen is coming to visit and see Johnny. And that afternoon, we are going to bring Johnny to his first Wolfpack football game! It looks like the weather will be nice - not too hot, and it is a 3 PM game. We are probably crazy, but the plan is that I will take him up after he wakes up from his nap (no tailgating), and then stay until he starts crashing! I have a new carrier - an Ergo - that can handle his weight and hopefully will be pretty comfortable for him and me. I am going to drive separately and take his PJs with me! Hopefully the crowd noise won't be too much for him. We'll see!
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