Everyday I find myself amazed by Judah. Sometimes this means laughing out loud because he said or did something that just cracks me up. Sometimes I am caught off guard by his whits. I have found it really hard to discipline him when he makes me laugh. Anyway today he ate a big lunch and he ate it fast. We had pasta alfredo leftovers from yesterday. He looks up at me and with a mouth that is covered in sauce and still half full he asks me "di ey in?" "what?" I ask him. He swallows his last bite and asks me with a look of pride on his face and excitement in his eyes. "Did I win?" A little astonished by his competitiveness and remembering our dinner table growing up I realize that he finished his plate before I did. I answer "yes, you did." As climbs of his chair and runs to his room.
So I have been without Amy all week. She is working nights and sleeps during the day. And we all know that that doesn't really work when you have a three and a half year old that demands all your attention. So Amy sleeps at the hospital in a call room. Anyway this morning Judah and I had breakfast at the hospital. Poor Amy called me at 7:40am and woke me up. The alarm had failed to do so at 6:30am. She asked me where I was and in my dazed state I answered her "in bed." Then it hit me that I was supposed to be at the hospital around now. I had said that we would leave at 7am. So Amy decided that it was worth staying up a little longer for her to have breakfast with us. It is a 18 mile drive from our house to the hospital. It took me 50 minutes to drive the first 5 miles. That is an average of 6 miles an hour. I love this city. Then traffic broke free and it took me another 25 minutes to do the rest. Only being slowed down a little more while passing an little accident (a little more than a fender-bender). Judah and I were lucky, it was waffle Wednesday. Belgium waffles with strawberry syrup and whipped cream. A good cup of coffee and a plum green tea later it was Amy's bedtime and Judah and I left. On the way back right after I got on the interstate Judah had to pee. so I get of the next exit and stop t a Burger King. Then I got back on the interstate, or so I thought. The on ramp never reached the interstate but led to a bypass to a different interstate(I55). So I get off and find my way back. This should be simple after all there are signs everywhere. I follow the signs to the right interstate (I90/I94) and guess what as I follow the on-ramp the signs change from (I90/I94) to (I290) I had had it I decided to take the streets and made it home in a mere 1.5 hours. I love driving here.
Last Saturday was probably the hardest drive that I have had as far as I can remember. I have driven back and forth between Radford, Virginia and Chicago a few times by now. But this one was brutal. It all started the entire week before where neither Amy nor I got a lot of rest. Mainly for hanging out with the family until late and night, and Judah waking us up early in the morning. And to top it of we didn't hit the hay until 2:30-3 am Friday night. On Saturday we left at 7:30 am EST and visited Amy's brother Gary for an hour and a half. He is located in Grundy Virginia. This is about a two and a half hour drive. Then we drove to Chicago this should have been about a nine and a half hour drive but because we were so tired we made a whole lot more stops. And it took us thirteen and a half hours instead. The road just seemed to never end. We made a stop for a Redbox so that we had some new movies for Judah to watch. And when we got back in the car his DVD player wouldn't work anymore. Luckily I have a DC-AC converter in the car and was able to hook up our laptop so that Judah could watch those movies after all. Around 8 o'clock we wanted to stop for some food. Amy really had her heart set on Panera so we drove a few miles out of the way to the closest Panera. When we pulled up I got out of the car. It was cold and the wind was blowing. As I walk up to the door Amy takes Judah out of the car. While she does this the laptop bag blows out of the car (that is how hard it was blowing). As Amy bends over to pick it up she smashes Judah's head into the car window. As I get to the door I see that they are closed. We were still in EST and they close at nine we missed it by a few minutes. Judah is crying as I get back in the car, Amy starts to cry because she doesn't want anymore fast food. I ask her what she does wants and Judah says tacos. We cross the street to TacoBell. Amy and I both are so tired that we don't know what to order and let the lady at TacoBell decide for us. When we sit down Judah asks Amy for a hug and as she reaches around to give him one she knocks over his cup of ice water and spills it all over him. Now he is crying again I go out and get his a change of pants and we eat our dinner. What else can go wrong?
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