New Years Eve

With Tucker only being 15 weeks old, we weren't planning on anything too exciting or extravagant for New Years Eve. Being the puss that I am, I didn't feel ready to leave Tucker with someone else over night. Hayden was seven months old before we left him over night (even with grandparents) and it may be that long before we do the same with Tucker! So this year we offered to host a small get together with the Millers and the Shaws and Jason invited another couple who live a street over and also work at Hospira.

Hayden and his hat:

The night was pretty uneventful - the adults talked and had a few drinks while the kids ran around screaming, laughing and playing. Tucker fell asleep about 8:30 and we finally laid him down in our bed around 10. At 10:30 Hayden started getting whiny, accusing the other kids of "not sharing" and just otherwise indicating he needed to go to bed. So I asked him if he wanted to lay down with Tucker and go to sleep. He said yes so I turned the t.v. on and hoped that he would go to sleep.

No such luck. The other two older kids were in and out of our bedroom as well as Hayden getting up and down and at one point Chris even tried laying down in our bed with Brayden to try and get him to go to sleep. At 11:30 Jason went back to our room to use the restroom and found Hayden standing in the hallway. Don't know if he was waiting for someone to scare or what.

Midnight came and the 3 toddlers were still awake and pretty crabby at this time. Ten after twelve our guests had packed up and gone home and we were left with  lots to clean up. We put Diego on our t.v. and had Hayden go lay back down while we loaded the dishwasher. We still had the baby monitor on from early in case Tucker woke up and the only sounds that were coming from it was that of Diego. Jason says "what do you bet he's asleep?" We quietly walked back to the bedroom to find Hayden very much wide awake, sitting up in bed watching Diego. I think he takes after his mom!