This weekend we were all recovering from a week of no sleep. On top of that the weather has been going up and down so fast that everyone has sinus headaches and runny noses. Michigan. As I mentioned previously Noomi was up last Friday, then Ajax was up every night for a week. That meant no sleep for Dave, Ajax, and I. It hit us all pretty hard as none of us are used to getting up anymore and I had forgotten how rough that is on the body.
On Saturday morning I got up super early and went into the office for a few hours and Dave wrangled the kiddos who also decided to get up super early as well. When I got home everyone was pretty beat so we did nothing. I mean nothing. It was wonderful. We played with the kiddos, Ajax showed us his favorite tractor video – which is really a tractor video game/simulator – it’s a guy playing this video game driving around a tractor harvesting wheat and talking about farm equipment. Ajax loves it and would watch it for HOURS if we let him. The only time he gets the Kindle or watches TV is on the weekends, so hey, if he wants to watch tractor videos games, by all means go ahead. Noomi crawled around nonstop exploring and pushing all the books back on the shelf. She is also pulling herself up on everything, but isn’t too interested in holding onto your hands and walking around (which Ajax loved).
We did an easy dinner of hot dogs and then pulled out the camping grill and made up some samores (?). Ajax was so excited and got a kick out of setting his marshmallow on fire. Noomi was excited to eat a graham cracker and Dave gave her a tiny bite of a marshmallow. Afterwards, Dave and Ajax camped out in the yard! Ajax was so excited he could hardly calm down, plus he was also a little afraid. Around 3 am, it started pouring rain, and the tent leaked pretty bad so Dave had to wake Ajax up and come in the house.
On Sunday we bummed around and then around noon headed to my parent’s house for an early dinner. My aunt Liz and uncle Tom and cousin Ryan were also out, which was nice. Ajax played down at the barn for a bit and Noomi was happy being spoiled. After dinner we got on the road to beat the MIS race fans and got home around 6:30 pm.
This morning the exhaustion finally hit Ajax and Dave ended up staying home with him as the poor little guy was tuckered out. I was worried that if he didn’t stay home to rest today he would be out of commission for a week and neither of us could afford that. He is now doing much better and looking forward to school tomorrow.
Noomi loves trying on shoes lately!