Catching Up

Last weekend, we decided to load up and go cheer on the Terrier football team as they challenged the #1 seed in the football playoffs. The game was played at Illinois State Univ. which was pretty cool and it was a beautiful day for a long drive and an afternoon game. Luke did great traveling, and we had a good time cheering, exploring under bleachers, meeting the paramedic and getting a tour of the ambulance - oh, yeah and watching a little football!. The Terriers lost, but the effort was good and they DID make the playoffs!

Obviously, Luke wore his costume for the game. It was warm and it WAS Halloween. He made at least 100 people smile! The pictures show him adventuring around the stadium. Luckily, the 'security' was very loose and we spend a lot of time right on the field by the endzone. Luke really wanted to grab the orange markers that outline the endzone and didn't understand why he needed to stay off of the actual playing field! He did like using some of ISU's practice equipment, though :)






Saturday morning, we got up and visited the zoo. It felt like our personal zoo since we got there close to opening time and there was no one else there. How fun! Luke had a good time walking around, picking up rocks, etc...oh yeah, and he liked some of the animals. The loud and showy sea lions were his favorite. The picture of him smiling with Steve is when they were watching them get fed.







One other fun thing that we did last weekend was visit with GMA SUSAN and GPA PAUL! They made it back with smiles on their faces from their big trip to Italy. We were all glad to visit with them and look at pictures. Luke was especially happy to be back in their house where he has 3 trucks that he is very protective of...they were safe and he enjoyed playing with them while Steve and I had a quick date on Friday. Fun!

As far as daylight savings goes, we couldn't have traveled on a better weekend. He took really short naps each way there and back, and fell asleep well Sat and Sun night. He slept almost 13 hours on Saturday night after all of the activities and Sunday he was nearly falling down tired at 7:00 so we laid him down, he talked to his buddies for a while and was out by 8:00, up at 7:00. So, this round of DST has worked out pretty great. He is napping earlier than normal, too, but we have been busy and outside a lot yesterday (farm visit!) and today (Kinkaid hike after grocery run and music class) so maybe the fall air just knocks him out. He is so sweet!