a peaceful Sunday night

Since we spent the night away from home last night, it was necessary to disturb Dennis at 2 AM, to move him from the room where he was sleeping into the room where we would be sleeping. Usually this is not a problem, but this morning it was a disaster. We finally went to sleep at 3:30 AM (or that was the last time I saw when I looked at my watch), with David snuggled with Dennis on the floor on an air mattress and me sleeping on one very comfy couch. Dennis cried for a long time before we finally were allowed to sleep, and I was so grateful to get up from my half-crouching position on the floor beside the air mattress where he decided to finally fall asleep with his head under my chin. He head-butted us for quite awhile before settling on that position, and I sat there, silently begging for him to fall asleep (while listening enviously and disgustedly to David's snoring from the other side of the air mattress) so that I could get up and go to the bathroom and take my contact lenses out. Once Dennis rolled over toward David, I RAN down the hall before he could start crying again and delay my necessary errand one more time.

We were very bleary-eyed at 8 AM, which is when a little Dennis head popped up and happily declared "Fee" (which means fish) while looking at the aquarium in the room where we were sleeping. He was up and exploring after that, and we packed up and headed home. I napped away the rest of the morning and then got some major kitchen cleaning done, some with Dennis helping. We're all glad to be home and in our own beds, two of us already asleep. We were so blessed to have such a wonderful weekend.