When the idea of starting this blog first came about, Em actually napped on occasion. Since he only recently celebrated his very first birthday, like most 1 year olds, his sleep schedule is all out of whack. A fact that is underscored by the fact that he is attending mom’s morning out at At-man’s school. He is there from 9-noon, 2 days a week. On school days my little man hits the car-seat to go home and that’s all she wrote.

At-man has the option of leaving at noon, or staying an extra hour and eating lunch with his friends. I know I am crazy and probably reading too much into the social lives of three year olds, but the kids who do not stay for lunch seem to have less of a bond than the cooler “lunch bunch”. At-man’s best friend is a lunch bunch dude and even though it would probably make my life ten thousand times easier I just don’t have the heart to make him give up his last hour before he returns home to his life as “the one who can somewhat handle himself”.

All the way to Thanksgiving and Em and I are still in the experimental phase as to what is the best way to proceed. If I take him straight home and put him in his crib I have to wake him up to get back in the car 45 minutes later. Today I tried running errands I can accomplish from the car in the hopes that he would remain asleep until we return home with big brother. We cruised through the bank drive through, hit the mail box, filled up the gas tank, things were really moving along. Then the human tornado hits the car fresh from a rainy, no playground day at school. Queue Em - who lazily blinks his eyes, notices big bro hopping around the car and immediately decides this looks too fun to miss out on. Back on the ranch we now have a baby who is beside himself after realizing that the “waking up thing” was not exactly the best decision he could have made at the time. The nice thing about the second go-around in parenting is that you know all of the things that are driving you crazy at any given point are subject to change at a moments notice. So, although I am somewhat disappointed at the amount of time I have had to invest so far, I know that this too shall pass. Please stay tuned…