Day 53 – Weekend visit from Grandpa and Mimi

Corin just rounded out meeting all of his grandparents with an extended weekend visit with Terry (Grandpa) and Janice (Mimi). They made the trek from New Hampshire and we all got to hang out for several days. We had good weather, which let us get outside for much of the weekend. It was great. We took many walks around the neighborhood, went to the local farmers’ market and had a little backyard picnic (after Mimi kindly did some backyard green-thumb chores for us). Kristi and I even tricked them into watching Corin for an evening while she and I went out for a date together. It was a great visit with lots of good food, good laughs, cute baby time and more than a little spit-up.

The visit gave us a good opportunity to begin working on our new sleeping plan with Corin. Up until the visit, one of us would sleep in bed while the other slept on the couch with Corin sleeping in a little bed next to the couch. That way the bed person could be getting some good uninterrupted sleep while the couch person dealt with the joys of children. Then halfway through the night we would switch places. We have now gone to Corin being in the other room and both of us sleeping in bed at the same time (which seriously hasn’t happened for about six months). Then we take turns getting up when he needs whatever he needs. Overall it has been working reasonably well.

We also received our bicycle trailer today, which we are very excited about. Well, Kristi and I are excited…Corin won’t stop crying right now (but maybe that is due to his trailer excitement). I set it up and took it for a solo test ride today. We are hoping for some dry weather this week so we can get the family out on the road.