Yeah!!! We picked Aunt Angie up from the airport about 2am. We put the boys to bed early, knowing that they would be up for a couple hours in the middle of the night. It wasn't very successful in Joey's case. He kept fighting sleep and yelling down to us. Nick went upstairs around 11:30pm to get a short nap in before leaving, and Joey was still awake.
As we waited for Angie to come around the corner, Joey was holding a birthday card and a piece of birthday cake with a yellow crayon candle. Angie's birthday was yesterday, and since we were going to be seeing her so soon, we decided to throw her an extra-mini "party" at the airport. It was so wonderful to see her. Joey definitely woke up after seeing her and talked non-stop on the way home. Baby Nick pretended to be shy for about 30 seconds, but then allowed Angie to hold him. By the end of the day, he was fully warmed up to her.
Yesterday had to be the hottest day Anchorage has seen. According to Nick, local radio stations were saying that it got all the way up to 83 degrees! That made our house very stuffy, especially upstairs where the bedrooms are. The other, more difficult thing, about putting the boys back to bed, was that they are both in our room while Angie is here. So if one is not already asleep when the other goes to bed, it is impossible to get the two of them to sleep. Joey was still too wired, but since it was 3:00am, I needed him to go back to bed. Baby Nick didn't want to lay down in the play pen when Mommy and Daddy were in the same room on the big comfy bed. So Baby Nick was jumping up and down in his bed, and Joey kept peeking his head up and giggling at Baby Nick, and we were all sticky with heat. (I'm not trying to compare myself to Paul and Angie in Texas, but after spending several months in weather twenty below zero, even temperatures in the sixties feel a whole lot warmer than you would expect.) Finally, I got back up and took Baby Nick downstairs to rock him to sleep. I had him laid down by 3:30am, so it didn't take too long. A bonus was when I came back upstairs and Joey had finally fallen asleep. Baby nick slept until ten after eight this morning, and Bubba came downstairs shortly after that. Nick got up after Joey, but Angie slept until around eleven. But she had worked the night before, and didn't get any sleep before she left, so she was exhausted. Plus, she is on vacation....and that is what you are supposed to do on vacation, relax and take it easy.
We didn't do much today, except do the grocery shopping. Then Angie treated us to Red Robin for dinner. Her boyfriend's mom gave her a gift card to Red Robin for her birthday, after researching Anchorage to see what kind of restaurants we had up here. That was so thoughtful.
Tomorrow, Nick and Angie are getting up around 4am to get ready to leave for Seward, where they will take a charter boat fishing. They will fish for halibut, and if they reach their quota early, they will also fish for salmon and rock fish. A customer of Apria's was so pleased with the service they provided, that she offered her husband's charter service at a discounted rate. They will pay the price for a halibut charter, and if they have time, they will fish for the other fish at no extra cost. That is yet another blessing that God has bestowed upon us recently. So the boys and I will have a normal, quiet day at home. I will probably get laundry done, if I feel motivated enough. Nick and Angie will hopefully be home by 10:00pm. Then on Saturday, we will be leaving by 8:00am to go back down to Seward to camp for the night. We will be camping with Randy and Cheryl, who will also have Jack with them. They will get to do more fishing this weekend, and I am hoping to be able to take the boys to the Sea Life Center that is down there. It's not exactly an aquarium. It is, in fact, an operating research facility, but they have things to see, and a place where you can feel the marine life "on display."
The boys were asleep, but then Joey woke up a little bit ago, and he can't let Baby Nick sleep while he's awake, so now Baby Nick is awake. I guess I will have to rock him to sleep again tonight, since he won't get himself to sleep as long as Mommy is in the same room. That is easier said than done, now that he is used to getting himself to sleep. Oh well....who said I was going to get any sleep this week, anyway.
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