What time did YOUR day start?

Yesterday ended so well. Eli was so happy to have his walker, I got caught up on a bunch of my school stuff, and I was headed to bed at 9:30. I was thrilled to get to bed early because I had planned on getting up today to run before Edgar left for work...which meant an early morning. Well...at 10:30 Eli woke up and started crying. This is extremely unusual for him. The last time he got up after he had been put to bed like that was 8 months ago...he never wakes up! I went in to check on him, and he was just screaming...so I picked him up, and he immediately stopped. He didn't seem to be in pain, or hungry, his diaper wasn't dirty, and he wasn't running a fever. I held him for a bit and put him back in bed. He cried...and cried and cried. It wasn't constant, but at 12:30 I got back up and went back to his room. I picked him up and he stopped. I tried to rock him to sleep, but every time I would try and lay him back down he would scream. SO, I got in the twin bed in his room with him, and there we slept last night...well...sort of. Every half hour he would wake up and cry. As soon as I would put my hand on him and let him know I was there he would stop. Sometimes I don't even think he was awake as he was crying. He didn't open his eyes-he just cried. A couple of times he was crying and I would sit him up and he would 'wake up' and stop. It was weird. I took his temperature, and it was normal, so I have NO IDEA what was wrong.

This morning I felt pretty crummy needless to say...Eli was fairly cranky too. At 8 I took his temperature again and it was 99.5, so I gave him some Tylenol to see if it would help him feel better. He did seem to settle down a bit. At 10:00 I stepped outside and realized it was GORGEOUS out. Low humidity, and cool. So I decided I deserved a treat :)

I loaded Eli into his stroller and we walked to Dunkin' Donuts :) It's amazing how much better a day gets when you have an iced coffee and bagel-even a day following a near-sleepless night! The walk was so nice too. It seems like forever since I've been able to go outside without instantly sweating! I think Eli enjoyed being outside too-he chatted the whole way there. When we got back I put some shoes on Eli and we went out in the backyard and walked around out there too. I put him down for a nap and he slept for an hour and a half. YAY!

He got up and was just plain pleasant to be around. I think perhaps the fact that he had my undivided attention helped :) I didn't have to 'get a bunch of stuff done', so I could just play with him.

Lately he really likes to pull things out of things...He'll take every toy out of the box, or every book out of the bin...or every diaper out of the diaper caddy...He pulled those out, I put them back, he pulled them out, I put them back...it was a fun game :)

He also has been having lots of fun playing the piano too. He's composing this really contemporary jazz piece. It's very interesting...
One thing about this morning (yeah...back to that) was that I did not get to run. I was exhausted by the time I was suppose to go, so I just figured I wasn't going to get to go. WELL, since the weather was so nice, I went this evening. I think if every run was like the run I had tonight, I would run every day...twice a day maybe. It was WONDERFUL. It was nice and cool (for Florida) and low humidity (I think I've mentioned that once already...). I put my headphones on and off I went. I started off at a fairly normal pace, then 'The Macarena' came on. All I could think of was when my dad did his version of the Macarena dance. It made me laugh, and I picked up the pace, and took off (well...took off for me...) I ran 3 miles in 32 minutes 19 seconds. That's faster than the race I just ran! It was 10 min 45 sec pace. I haven't run at that pace for a very long time-it felt great. I realize my runs won't always feel like that, but I'll take it when I can get it!
I had a couple errands to run after Eli went to bed, and when I got home Edgar had the Tiger's game on-YAY! They're on TV! I never get to watch them play! So that's what we're doing-we're both on our computers doin' stuff while watching the Tiger's beat up on the Twins. SO, while the day didn't start off great, it is ending fabulously!