Sunday: Family Fun Day

After church this morning, we rushed home so Eli could go right down for a nap. We'd planned to attend a neighborhood "pumpkin carving" party at 3, when Eli was usually snoozing. Of course that backfired, as it always does. Eli did not get quiet in his crib until 2:30. Thirty minutes of nap would not a happy child make. I swear he gets too excited to nap sometimes...he did the same thing when Gappa Jib last visited. He stayed in his crib playing for almost two hours before I finally went in and told him that if he didn't take a nap, Gappa Jib wouldn't come until the following day. (It worked that time.)

(Speaking of no sleep. Maddux refused to sleep at church today also. She had a quick nap at the house before we left, but not long enough to justify staying up for three straight hours! I guess she's trying to follow in Eli's footsteps where sleep is concerned after all!)

So I go into Eli's room at 3:15 and he is lying down, but his eyes shoot open and he says, "Cut pumpkins??" At least he was in an ok mood!! The party was great; they had a few jumpy-castles for the kids, stations set up to carve or paint pumpkins, food galore (and we're talking creative food too), and a backyard playground set. Eli got a little moody during one or two of the jump sessions he had, but that's what happens when you get 1 1/2 hours LESS sleep than usual. Since I had Maddux strapped to my front in the bjorn, and since we were busy talking to people and watching Eli, we opted to wait and carve our pumpkin when we got home.

After dinner we put Maddux down for a quick nap (she had missed a lot of sleep this weekend also) and the three of us carved one of our pumpkins. Eli requested a "c-wy face" (cry face...I assumed it meant sad), but we were short on time, so I went for a standard smiley face. Eli was quite excited to see me cut and make the punkin a jack-ou-lee-ner. We lit a candle in it at the end and his eyes got really big.

One thing I forgot to mention from yesterday: Eli helped Lehr put up our bedroom wall lamps. He was oh-so excited to help Daddy with the real drill, but he did go downstairs a few times to get his tools (courtesy of Sesame Street).