Sunday night

It's been a big, busy day! J was back home around 10:00 this morning - he wakes up ready to come back to the big house, I think. LOL One of his little classmates had a birthday party this afternoon, at the McDonald's here in town, so we went to that. J started with his usual new-place-large-crowd routine of "I want to go home." I convinced him to eat some fries, then stay for ice cream and cake, then stay to see his little buddy open presents, and he did. Every present his friend opened, J looked at it and said, "I like that! I want that for my birthday! My birthday's coming up!" He's too much. And as soon as the presents were done and the cake was cleared away, he stood up and said, "Mama, I'm ready to go home now." So we came home. He's getting better about big group settings like that - he still asks to go home, but he doesn't have howling fits as much over it. I'm glad.

He must have been tired - he was asleep by 9:00 tonight, a bit earlier than his usual 9:30 - 10:00. Even the noise from the neighbors' fireworks hasn't disturbed him. And once he got into bed, I don't think I heard a peep from him. I wish every night could be this easy, and I hope I don't pay for the easy bedtime by having him wake up even earlier than usual ("usual" is about 6:30).

No big plans for tomorrow, just hanging out here, playing with J, doing laundry, exciting stuff.

And I thought I'd finally share a pic of myself - tried to add it in my profile, but I got an error message saying the URL was longer than the 68-character limit (and I'd like to know, how do I have any control over *that*?!). So here's my smiling face:



And now I think I'll take my smiling face and go get some sleep, just in case the two-legged alarm clock goes off earlier than usual. Hope everyone has a very happy and safe 4th of July!