Abbreviated Weekend

Our living room

The view from our deck

Luke was pretty happy when we got there

We had breakfast at the City Cafe Diner, very good!

Here comes the train!

Luke enjoyed the train ride

We enjoyed walking along the river front

Luke will love it even more when he is a little bigger!

Well we had an interesting weekend. It started off great. We got to Chattanooga by 8 eastern time and explored our cottage and unpacked. Luke did great on the way there; he slept most of the time. Friday night he went to bed fine but he woke up about 2 o'clock which he has not done in a couple of months. He would not go back to sleep in the pack-n-play so we ended up putting him in the bed with us. He slept for a few hours and was ready to get up.

We went downtown for b'fast which was really good. Then we headed over to the Tennessee Valley Railroad for our train ride. We just did the quick hour trip. It was a lot of fun. There were so many kids there. It is definitely a family friendly outing. Last night we headed over to Coolidge Park to hang out. Just after we got there a huge storm cloud came up so weren't able to stay as long as we would have liked. It rained off an on the rest of the night. Luke was able to nap some mainly in the stroller or anytime we were in the car! We noticed he had been coughing and sneezing quite a bit but he acted like he felt fine.

When we got back for the night Luke did not want to sleep at all. He tossed and turned whether he was in the pack and play on in the bed with us. This went on for awhile and Paul and I both realized that none of us were going to sleep. So we decided to pack up and head home. As crazy as it sounds I think it was the best thing we could have done. Luke was asleep within 2 minutes of being in the car. He slept the whole way home and didn't bat an eye when I got him out of the car seat and put him in his bed. He woke up around 3 and was warm to the touch. I took his temp and it was over 101. That explains why he wasn't feeling good. I gave him some Motrin and he went back to sleep pretty quickly.

He has been really tired today but his temperature hasn't been as high. We hope that the last couple of nights haven't thrown Luke off his normal routine. It is true that babies love routine. Now we just have to figure out what to do for our other two trips we have scheduled. We obviously wouldn't drive home from the beach!