First Night Away From Baby...We are making progress GramBo!

Well, I am hoping this post makes GramBo excited for her future visit to Disneyland!!

Yesterday, after what was a sufficient house cleaning, that suited our new year, we headed to my sisters house in Bozeman for our traditional Pennsylvania Dutch dinner of pork roast, saurkraut and mashed potatoes.  This was going to be an overnight slumber party for the whole family.  Well, Andy just couldn't bring himself to leave Axel for that long, so he decided he was just going to ride the bus back to Big Sky after dinner.  Of course, we didn't bother to check the bus schedule til we had left the house, when we realized that the last bus headed to Big Sky leaves Bozeman at 3:10pm...about an hour before we even headed to Bozeman.  New plan, Andy would just drive home and come get us in the morning.  All is settled.

We all have a delicious dinner and Ollie enjoys playing with a friend.  Together they manage not to break anything and no one gets hurt!  As I am changing both boys and getting thier jammies on, I wonder how on earth I am going to get these two boys to sleep in one bed with me, all night.  These thoughts wander in and out as I hold Ollie by the ankles as he attempts to roll to eithere side so he can crawl all over the bed without a diaper, while carver whines helplessly on the floor beside us.  At this time I also realize how impossibly strong someone so small can be!  So, I ask Andy if he will take Ollie and Carver and I will stay the night with Aunt Jade.  He agrees.  All is settled...again.

As the night winds down and Andy is getting ready to head home, I suddenly realize that this will be my first night away from Ollie!  A big night for mama.  Of course, my mind fills with all the awful thoughts that riddle a mothers mind...I am guessing this is just a small taste of the next 18 years, at least.  I don't have any other options, so I let the guys go home to the big dog and the Steelers football game today.  Carver and I road the bus home this afternoon with uncle Haven and apparently, Andy and Ollie had a very good day.

Ollie is repeating everything we say (no swear words when I got home so I guess that is good).  He doesn't shut up from the time he wakes up in the morning until the time he goes to bed, aside for nap time.  He is in temper tantrum city and has no problem screaming or throwing things if something isn't going his way.  But he is learning a little everyday how to deal with challenges.  I think it is going to be a long 2011!