May 29-30 - David's House

May 29-30 - David's House

Happy Memorial Day! What a busy day! Levi was up very early in the morning. We spent the morning cleaning our house before Levi's new Nanny starts on Wednesday! After lunch we packed to head to David's House. It was nap time and we figured that Levi would fall asleep in the car on the drive up. Well, he did fall asleep! With 20 minutes left of the drive! And the other hour and 45 minutes in the car he was screaming and angry! Oh what a drive it was!! We got to David's House and stopped the car and Levi didn't wake up. So we set in the car for 45 minutes while he slept! And then he only woke up because the car beside us locked its doors and the horn beeped.

We got inside to check in and they had a birthday present for Levi. He ripped the paper off and was so excited!! It was his very own ice cream quilt!! David's House had asked the Ladie's Of the Lakes Quilter's Guild to make it special just for him!! He was so excited about it!!

Then they told us that they had given him the space room for his birthday!!! He has always wanted to go in the space room but it is designed for a much larger party then we are so it's not a common room for us to have! And oh boy was he excited about that. He was off and up the stairs before we could say anything! He was so excited to lay on the bed with his stuffies and new quilt and check out all the space things. He kept pointing out new things "look at the mirror" "look at the wall" "look at the ceiling" he was so excited!

He wasn't too impressed about the bed railing, kept asking me how he was supposed to get out. 

Then we were off to play downstairs. Levi wanted all of us to play together so down we went. He brought some cars from the train table down with him and we had lots of fun playing with them on the slide and on the floor. He was definitely in a good mood after his nap!

Then we headed upstairs to figure out dinner. There was nothing at David's House so we had to find dinner somewhere else. I wasn't really in a mood to sit at a restaurant with Levi and he wasn't in one to sit at one so we decided to do take out. We ended up finding a pizza place that would deliver! And ordered from them. They were really busy thought so we settled in to wait. Levi asked to go outside so we said sure. Since once again I had forgotten to bring extra shoes for him we told him he could go play in the puddles barefoot. He was excited! And out he went!! 

He wasn't out long before he told us that his feet were cold and that he was hungry! We brought him inside to change out of his wet clothes. He wanted his turtle PJ's! As you can tell they are WAY too small, but he was excited about them. Since we still had about 30 minutes until food we get in and Levi was getting crazy we let him settle on the couch with his tablet for a few! 

Once the food arrived we set in the ice cream room and ate! Levi was such a good eater and ate a ton of pizza and fries! Then he wanted to head back downstairs to play so off we went!

Before long it was bedtime! We tucked Levi into the space room! It took him a little while to go to sleep but not a crazy long time! About 20 minutes. Longer then at home, but not as long as it used to be at David's House! 

Jay sitting down the hallway waiting for Levi to fall asleep! Not sure how he can even hear him down there. 

Me sitting on the floor right outside the space door waiting for Levi to fall asleep and going in when he calls for me!

Around 9:30 Levi was asleep and I headed downstairs for a few minutes of relaxing, and to eat the chocolate cake! Around 10:45 I had the urge to go to bed. Much earlier then usual, but it just felt right, so up I went. Levi was sound asleep!

Thank goodness I went up when I did, because the 45 minutes from 10:45-11:30 were the best sleep I got all night. Levi was awake from 11:30-3:30 straight. Talking, rolling, crying, bouncing between his bed and ours, basically doing everything but sleeping. Jay came up for bed around 1:45 and moved Levi out of our bed and back into his bed. That lasted all of about 8 minutes before Levi was back in our bed and cuddled up with me. He kept stroking my head and saying "I love you Mommy" and "Mommy hold me!" Around 3:00 I took Levi back to his bed and set and rubbed on his back until 3:15. The last noise I heard from him was at 3:30. I slept awful from that point on, never getting into a deep sleep, wondering when Levi would be awake again and what had made him be awake in the first place.

I figured that Levi would wake up bright and early like usual (5:30 is not an uncommon morning at David's House!), but I was up at 7:45 and he was still sleeping. I started to get ready and let him sleep until 8:10 or so, but then we had to get up and ready. Our appointment was at 9 and we didn't want to bed late.

After we were dressed we headed downstairs to see Jaye and say thank you for the quilt and give big hugs! She was so excited to see us and especially Levi. We would have loved to stay and chat but we had to get over to the hospital!

We were back upstairs and packing up our room and then our leftover food and we were out the door!

Thank you for everything David's House! We love you guys! You are so sweet and amazing to Levi! Thank you for all that you do for him!!