The Hatke's: It was like Christmas again

And I am talking about 2 weeks ago was busy traveling around like we typically do at Christmas time. I decided as my maternity leave is nearing the end that Caedmon, Tyson, and I would go visit family again. We went up to my dads from Tuesday thru Thursday. Tuesday went to my bros house and visited with everyone. Caedmon was a little cranky that night. He typically seems to want to go to bed about 7PM. Well by the time we got back to my dads, fed him, and put him to bed it was 9PM. When we put him to bed he usually sleeps about 5 to 6 hours and then wakes up to eat again and goes back to bed for another 3 to 4 more hours. Well that night he slept till 4AM! 7 Hours!! I couldn't believe it. Then he slept another 3 hours after that from 5 to 8AM. It was nice.

On Wednesday dad, Caedmon, and I went to the mall and walked around and ate lunch. Caedmon slept the whole time in the mall. My bro and the kids came over for dinner that night. Then Thursday afternoon I headed out to Lafayette to grandpa and grandma Hatke's house. Swung by their house to pick up Brandon and then went to grandma's work. She wanted to show Caedmon to her co-workers. And of course everyone thought he was adorable. Then on Friday hung out with Brandon for awhile before heading home before dark.

The whole time I was gone Tanner was supposed to be at a conference for work but unfortunately got sick. He ended up staying home the whole week but good for him since he was able to get uninterrupted rest and not have to tend to the boy. So I thought I did pretty well tending to the boy without Tanner around. Caedmon was a little cranky alot but he probably missed his daddy.

Then later on Friday night, grandma and grandpa Hatke brought Brandon to our house to spend the weekend with us. We all went out to dinner at the Rathskellar (a really good German restaurant) before they headed back home. Caedmon slept the whole time and did well. We actually tried to go to the Rathskellar with them the weekend before and Caedmon was crying the whole time on the way there so we decided to turn around and go home and ordered in instead.

The weekend with Brandon was fun. We had some good laughs. We were kind of lazy too which was nice. Saturday night Brandon and I walked around Circle Center mall and went to dinner at Scotty's Brewhouse for my friend Jenelle's graduation celebration. Tanner was still pretty tired from being sick so he stayed home with Caedmon. He said him and Caedmon were having fun talking guy stuff, smoking cigars, and shootin guns. LOL! They got to have some guy bonding time since we been gone most of the week.

On Sunday again we were all lazy. Tanner took Brandon home back to Lafayette with Caedmon. I stayed home to have a night to myself with Tyson. Tanner probably would have left Caedmon at home but I knew grandpa and grandma would be disappointed if he didn't go. I even went running for the first time in about 10 months today. It felt great but kicked my butt. So it turned out that the weather was bad up in Lafayette and Tanner didn't want to drive home in the ice so him and Caedmon spent the night. So I got to have an entire night to myself with uninterrupted sleep. It was pretty awesome!

Well now that I just rambled on forever and probably confused everyone or bored you to death, I will end with a couple of pictures and a video from the week.