Just the two of us

Last weekend Graham and I had the rare pleasure of getting away just the two of us. Of course it's not as easy these days to just "wisk" away, even when it's just for one night. And I doubled my work by inviting our friends and their 2 children to house sit for the weekend and take care of Baxter. So I worked like crazy cleaning the house, doing many loads of laundry, and packing for all of us. I didn't get much sleep Friday night (what's new) and I was very much looking forward to my one night of hopefully uninterrupted sleep and the chance to sleep in on Sunday morning. If I could just stay awake during the day Saturday! We started out the morning with Nick's soccer game, which went pretty well, then off to Mimi and PopPop's house to drop off the boys. Graham and I spent the day at Atlantic Station. We had a great lunch, shopped at the street vendors and in the stores, experienced Dialog in the Dark (incredible experience of what it is like to be blind), and went to the movies. An entire day of things that are challenging or impossible to do with our little guys in tow. Most of all, it was just wonderful getting to spend an entire day with just Graham and me. I am so thankful for a husband that I love to spend time with and who continues to encourage us to do things like this. I hate to admit it but as a mom, it's often easy to get caught up in the day to day of raising my boys and the extra work that goes into trying to get away can often stop me from planning things like this. But I'm so glad we did--we had a great time with our day of freedom! We spent the evening back in our old neck of the woods--Vinings. We recently stayed there for Nadine's wedding. However I stupidly forgot how allergic I was to the bed until I woke at 3 am because of a loud hotel guest in the hall and remembered how badly I had felt the last time we were here. Needless to say, I did not get that long and restful night's sleep I have desired for as long as I can remember. And unfortunately Sunday was spent at the car shop and minute clinic as both the car and myself needed a tune up! At least we had a great Saturday!
The boys had a wonderful time with Mimi and PopPop. Nicholas loved reading all the books and playing with all of the toys there. He played lots of golf and his favorite thing was going on two different walks through the neighborhood to see all of the Halloween decorations. They even got a personal tour inside the notorious Halloween House on the corner with the million decorations! Unfortunately, Nolan wasn't feeling so well and decided he needed some Mimi-time throughout the night. Sorry Mimi! He turned 10 months on Sunday--Can't believe it! We met up with the boys and Mimi and Aunt Ashley at a local church that had a pumpkin patch. It was fun and Nick loved the maze.
This week so far we've just laid low as Nolan continues to have a cough and upset tummy--but you'd never know it as he remains his sweet self. We did have a great treat on Tuesday when we met up with Holly and Caroline and went walking in the park. It was so wonderful to see both of them!
In other big news, this evening as Nicholas and I were cooking dinner, Nolan was playing in the tupperware in the kitchen (total craziness in our very tiny kitchen) and I looked down and realized that he was crawling, for real crawling! He has been "army crawling" for about a month now and he just picked himself up and started crawling across the room. So cool! Unfortunately his biggest motivations to crawl long distances are to get cords and the drawers of the entertainment center. I'm sure I will forever say this about Nolan but it's going so fast and I can't believe in 2 months he'll be 1! It's not like everything ends then but for some reason I am so sad for his babyhood to be over. I just want to wear him in the sling forever! Do you think he'll let me "wear" him as he heads off to school??