What a day

This is what our day looked like.

A 2 1/2 hour trip with a crying and screaming 1 year old.

Watching my nephew, Tyler, play in his flag football game.

Watching him pass the ball.

Watching him run with the ball.

Going to the Johnny Appleseed Festival in Fort Wayne, with my family and with my brother Ryan, his wife Cindy, and my wonderful nieces and nephew

Watching Zander with his daddy, he loved being on his daddy's shoulders

Hoping my husband could navigate through the festival with Zander covering his eyes.

Watching Zander play with his cousins

And loving the slide

And having Zander's daddy catch him at the bottom of the slide

Meeting my cousin's baby boy, Luke Robert for the first time

Holding the precious little boy and thinking in 6 1/2 weeks or less I will be holding one of my own precious little infant

Andy, my cousin's husband, with his new baby boy Luke

Luke Robert Oberlin was born on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 1:40 p.m. to Marci and Andy Oberlin and has a big brother, Michael. Luke weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz. and was 20.5 inches long. What a cutie. Congratulations Marci and Andy!

And then I spent another 2 1/2 hours in a car with a screaming and crying 1 year old. For some reason, Zander hated the drive to and from Fort Wayne. He usually does well in cars, even long drives, and falls asleep, but not today. After 1 1/2 hours, I decided to sit in the back seat of the car with Zander and see if that helped. It did not. After a while, I started rubbing Zander's leg, and that seemed to calm him down. He finally fell asleep for the last 20 minutes of our trip to Fort Wayne. On our way home he did not fall asleep at all. He loved when I rubbed his leg, and when I would stop he would take my hand and put it back on his leg so I would continue. I just love my little boy, even when he cries and screams.