Tennescenic

It was a busy day. We started by all going up to Franklin for Luke’s speech therapy. From there we went to Cool Springs so Liz could pick up something, then we returned to Columbia. We visited a park with a playground near downtown while killing a little time before Luke’s hair cutting appointment. Liz took him in to it at the designated time, but left upon seeing that nobody in the confined space was wearing a mask. After lunch he failed to nap, so once Liz finished her only meeting we went for a drive over to Chapel Hill and Henry Horton State Park. At least he slept on that drive. He enjoyed their big playground that was especially designed for 2-5 year olds. Dinner was uneventful as was bath time. He went down for bed without even a peep.

I actually fell asleep rather quickly last night and slept very well. Luke slept through the night too. Liz sort of has today and the next couple of days off, so that freed me up a bit. Liz and Luke made breakfast cookies, so that is how we started the day. Next I worked on cleaning out the garage some, then started building a gate for the back deck. It took a trip to Home Depot to get all of the supplies I needed, but finished before lunch. Luke went down for his nap fairly easily, and I took trash to the dump while he slept. After that I had a survey call with Google, and received a $75 gift card for my trouble. We were thinking to go to the nature park but it kind of started to rain, plus Luke wanted to keep playing outside at our house. So I hung a towel holder in his bathroom and prepared dinner. Liz is going over the “story of his day” with him now, and I might be the one putting him to bed. After he goes down I will go to Kroger.

I woke up and went to the house this morning, and spent a bit more time organizing and hauling trash to the storage unit, since the dump is closed on Sundays. At nine a guy, his dad (I think), and his realtor came to see the house. They stayed for nearly and hour and a half. I would say it went well. They will be in touch. I left the house and started driving home, which unfortunately didn’t go as planned. Interstate 24 was shut down (due to a carjacking/murder as I would later find out), and all traffic was routed to the exit where I was getting off. So that added about 45 minutes to the trip. Then in Wartrace the was an issue as well that held me up for a few minutes. The rain started around Shelbyville but wasn’t as bad as expected.

I arrived home as Luke was sort of falling asleep for his nap. Unfortunately he woke up about 40 minutes later in a horrible mood, which lasted a while. Once the rain stopped we went to the nature park for a nice walk. It was overcast and cool. Dinner went pretty well, as did bath time. Liz asked me to put him to bed, and that actually went great. I have just been lounging around this evening. Will try to go to bed early.

This morning Luke and I drove up to Brentwood to meet my dad at the playground next to the Library. Luke had a good time. He had a good lunch and decent nap. After Liz got off work we went for a walk at the nature park. Bed time went better than it has since he outgrew his crib.

Luke didn’t want to go to the nature park this morning so we just played in the spare room. My dad texted to say that the plumber was at my house today, which was great. Luke’s nap was a little problematic but he went down even though he ended up sleeping on the floor. We went to the nature park with Liz after she got off work this afternoon. I worked in the garage after dinner and then went to Kroger. Luke struggled at bed time. I hope he gets a good night’s sleep.