Grilling

We headed out to Nottoway for Grampy's birthday yesterday. Can you believe it was in the high 80s? Unreal. Will be that today too. Should be 60s tomorrow and for awhile. Really, I can do without this so early.

We had a great visit. Had some Gravlax Americana (my version of the Swedish salmon recipe) and asparagus and potatoes and a nice salad. Had ice cream cake for dessert. Grampy and Jon had cigars too. Carson took a tad to warm up, but was pretty good after that. Chardonnay was even better. With the grill on and everyone on the porch, she decided to be a very good pooch and did not do any nasty doggie exploring, though she did chase some deer.

Carson is stringing his syllables together, ah-rooo is a favorite word of his, just like kangaroo. A lot of mumbling. It's so darn hot today, napping has not been easy. The sling is not good when it's very warm with him being so hot-blooded. Saturday he popped out of the sling covered in sweat. So I've tried nap nursing and leaving him in the bed with the monitor, which doesn't work all that well. 20 minutes is the typical amount of time he will sleep when I am not touching him.

Something really irritated him today, perhaps the heat. Couldn't get him down to sleep. Tried nap nursing, but he was angry. Carson has quite the blood-curdling scream. So after multiple attempts and turning on the air conditioning (in March!!!), I put him in the Amby and bounced him. He fell asleep pretty fast. He's been out for 25 minutes now. I have the ceiling fan going above him. I dare not do anything noisy. He SO needs to sleep.