Sleep Strangeness for the S's

What a strange 24 hours it has been regarding sleeping around here. So, Dalton never did take a nap yesterday. Never slept a wink from when he woke up at 7 something to when he went to bed at 7:45 last night. And he was still up at a normal 7:15 or so this morning. Crazy! Yet, I promise you, you would never know he was "sleep deprived". Dalton has always been rather agreeable even when he should be hungry or tired. Yesterday was no exception.

The weirdest part of all of this is that yesterday Easton took a nap instead! I woke him up at about 3:15 and tucked the boys into my bed together for their beverages and a TV show. This picture is from the other day when Dalton didn't nap other than 10 minutes in the car:

Normally Easton is the only one to get a TV show while Dalton is still asleep.

Anyway, on days when Easton has napped he usually has a hard time falling asleep at night and then because he goes to bed too late he wakes up even earlier. But not last night. He was quiet after we tucked him in and slept late (for him) this morning until about 7:45. Maybe he's in a growth spurt? Isaac's mom thought he had grown when we saw them yesterday. Hmmmmm.

It is looking like Dalton won't nap again today. I am absolutely not ready for him to give up napping. What the heck? He's only 19 months old! We still know of kids Easton's age that nap darn near daily.

There is one more noteworthy "sleep" topic and then I promise I'll move on. I've recently been praying for a little more self-control and motivation to get up before my children do in the mornings so I can do a few things before my attentions shift to them. I was doing it quite a bit (waking early) in the summer but lately with it still being dark I'm somehow extra tired and less motivated. So like I said, I was praying about that and yesterday the neighbor dogs woke me up at 6:30. So I got up. This morning Blitz quietly meowed one time (from downstairs) and I heard him and said to myself, "I know it is 6:30 and this is my wake-up call from God." Sure enough...the clock said 6:31! Then my devotional this morning said something about "don't hide His blessings when they come" and while my animal friend alarm clocks might not be seen as a blessing to everyone, they're an answer to prayer for me. So I thought I'd share.

Dalton! Go to sleep up there!!! Okay...moving on like I said I would...

We made muffins this morning and both boys helped again. They're so great about taking turns. Even Dalton (in this case anyway). After the muffins were baking, Easton decided he wanted to show off our corn from yesterday and invited Dalton to do the same:




After breakfast we went to Wal-Mart. Since our harvesting yesterday Easton has been talking about how we have to make potato soup. And since it has to cook all day in the Crock Pot we had to scoot over to the store for the rest of the ingredients. Here are our tates from yesterday at the farm:

Only those 4 non-shriveled, non-spotted ones survived to meet their destiny in our dinner. But those 4 potatoes still gave us more than the 8 cups of potatoes we need for Sheree's Famous Potato Bacon Soup.

And we got to use one of our 4 gigantic onions for the soup too:


Easton was extremely excited to help and insists that he will eat some for dinner tonight. I'm not the type to ever force our children to eat (or at least swallow) any kind of food, but he'll be encouraged to try it like he says he will. He keeps saying, "I love potato soup!" It's a really good soup, so it's possible. Especially if we keep the bacon out of his and load it up with shredded cheese.

Here's my little helper, I got everything chopped and opened and then he joined me for the assembly:




Dalton watched Elmo in the living room. And snuck in for some crackers.

Just like his big brother at this age, Dalton subsists mainly on crackers and milk. And apparently not much of that is actually used his body (darn processed foods!) because he poops out a disproportionate amount of materials. Oh well. I'm assuming he'll move past it eventually like Easton (sort of) has.

They both ate cheese and crakers for lunch. And now they're in their rooms. Later today we'll be doing a couple of art projects as well as heading to KMart where they are doing DOUBLE COUPONS again. When I heard about this I harassed my mom and Lauren with several phone calls to find out their favorite products. I went through my stash of coupons looking for their faves and rushed to the post office to mail out some for them to use to stock up on stuff at their KMart today too.

I'm about to outgrow my brand new coupon organizer. I've hardly been at this for a month! I'm trying to think of which method I need to move to next. It's very complicated. :)

Hey...don't want to jinx it, but Dalton has been quiet for a little while. Hmmmmmm.

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