Happy Birthdays

First up- this is a birthday heavy week for our family. My brother Kyle's birthday is today and his wife Pamela's birthday is tomorrow. Happy birthday guys!! I am assuming that since Ky was not at home when I called him he must be or should have been out enjoying his day by catching some waves! Here's a picture of the last time we all got together right before we moved in July.
Then on Wednesday it is my dad's birthday- an early Happy Birthday to you Pop- we'll be bringing by some treats for you later this week.

This past week had been giving me headaches. Here's why...
Bright LOVES lids- oh my gosh... Every lid in our house has been given to him because the poor child begs for them, and I do mean begs! Even the tiny lid on top of the tea kettle has been given to him. Then he discovered that they fit on top of the pots and the cacophony began. Every day he starts by begging us to unlock the pot and pan cabinet- we had originally locked it so he couldn't pull them out and get hurt by them- silly us. So a crash comes as 7 pots and lids of various sizes fall out onto the linoleum floor at 7:30 in the morning. Ugh! Thankfully no one is currently living below us. Then Bright systematically takes each lid and tries it out for size on each of the pots until he finds just the right one- not necessarily the one that it actually fits on, but the one that seems to make sense in his universe. Let me just say that during this process Bright does not have a light touch. So yesterday I had about enough of the noise. Even though he will take them into the living room and play with them on the carpet, his favorite spot is right them in the kitchen. I took the area rugs from the living room and put it into the kitchen so now the pots fall a bit more quietly onto the rug before the lid sorting begins. We have also placed a lid quiet hours into effect- none before noon.
On a shots update- He is doing better now, although the naps are still a chore. Last night we put him down at 7:45 because he had missed his afternoon nap and his morning nap took so long to get him down his schedule was wacked. He didn't make a peep until 7:15 this morning. The night before that was very similar and we were able to take him from his room when he work up around 6:30 and bring him to our bed and all snuggle while watching his new Peter Rabbit movie. That was pretty sweet. So things are once again getting back to normal. Thank goodness.