out last arizona post!

sorry, folks, this one is posed! amazingly, cole never really attempted to climb into the empty cabinets. so- i had to put him in one to get a picture... after which, he promptly took a nosedive onto the linoleum while trying to get at the camera. he was fine- the tears stopped the second he saw his sippy cup, so there weren't any devastating injuries!

the last bath in arizona... love the classic cole-face.

cole ALMOST fell asleep with daddy! his eyelids were having some trouble staying propped open and he was playing with his ears- so off to bed he went. of course, since it was mommy who took him, it took longer for him to go to sleep. stinker!

during meeting yesterday, i discovered that the crankies that come with roseola is an understatement... cole's "crab level" was off the charts! he was out pretty much the whole meeting, with kelvin and i taking turns. but, when we went to olive garden with brad, angela and the girls, he did reasonably well. the service was REALLY slow (why are we surprised....)- we were told it would be a 25-minute wait for a table, since sunday is more busy. fine- no problem, except that we waited for at least half an hour, only to find that the table we were seated at was one of the ones that had been prepped and empty for the last 20 minutes. hmmm. then, it took about 10 minutes for our waitress to bring our drinks out, and we'd been seated for over an hour by the time we finally got our food. not like it was anything complicate- kid's mac-n-cheese, kid's pizza and a few simple pasta dishes, and a bowl of soup for angela. oh well- after all the frustration, we realized that it was a good thing after all, since it gave us more time together... lots of laughs around that table! of course, we were too full for supper so cole had his, then n his bath... and he was asleep around 8.30. perfect! ....not... he woke up at midnight, cried and fussed and refused to sleep, until i finally thought to get him a sippy-cup of warm milk. i'd have thought of it sooner, but between the packing, getting very little sleep the rest of the week and getting about 2 hours last night, my thought process was rather foggy and delayed. so- neither kelvin nor i got much sleep at all... he's working a half-day today, so if i were him, i'd just skip it altogether and sleep. but whatever. hopefully he'll get a good night tonight. we're travelling with nate as far as las cruces, new mexico- we'll all spend the night there and then we're taking a different route home, so we'll part ways in the morning. depending on how cole is taking the travel, kelvin might want to spend the night in nate's room so he can get a decent night's sleep... one of us has to, so it should be him. i can always sleep while he's driving. anyway, this will be our last post for a while- we have somebody buying our modem today (again, thanks to craigslist- where else can you sell a used modem so easily?) and he's coming at about 9.30... i have to get cole's breakfast and take a quick bath (showered last night, smart!) and there's the last-minute stuff to do and get rounded up. we are SO sad to be leaving our friends here, but words can't describe how anxious we are to be getting home again... wisconsin, here we come!!!