Monday, July 18, 2005

“Mama, tomorrow I will cry all day. When the sun comes up I will cry and the sun will cry. When I cry, the sun cries. When I cry, the moon cries. When I cry, the earth cries. And when I cry, the water cries.”
–after 45 minutes of bedtime protest crying on 7/18/05. (The first time we have had this kind of bedtime tantrum display in probably more than a year.)

Many deep breaths later, after I returned to work in the office, the crying began again. Then, we heard gagging sounds. Ian went into Lucas’s bedroom and found Lucas in his crib sticking his fingers down his throat, trying to make himself throw up.

Ian threatened to take Baby Tidoo away if Lucas made himself throw up. More deep breaths were breathed.

It’s now 9:48 and quiet. It’s 1 hour and 18 minutes since we first put Lucas to bed. Oh my word! Are we in trouble!

Tuesday, August 30
We charming Wilsons went on our second-ever Family Camping Trip last weekend. It was really wonderful, and a much better time than our first camping trip at Brannan Island last month.
This time, we went to Calaveras Big Trees State Park. It was car camping, but in a gorgeous location with nice big campsites. My only complaint was that we could hear the cars on the highway, but a look at the whole map suggests that there are many sites farther away from the road where you probably can’t hear the traffic noise.