Busy weekend

Wow, back to reality today. The long weekend was not only the unofficial end of summer (so sad!) but also a busy busy weekend for us.
Friday night we rushed down after work to go to the our high school alma maters' football game. Unfortunately, Ryan's high school won but not by much! It was Cooper's first football game though so we had a good time.

Saturday, Ryan and I left bright and early to meet some friends to head down to the Ohio State game, my other alma mater. it was so fun! there is nothing like seeing the Buckeyes play in the Shoe. the best part was our tickets were maybe 40 rows down from the big scoreboard so we were in the shade most of the game! now, the game wasn't the best (Navy was very close to pulling off the upset) but we pulled through in the end. it was great. we even had the one annoying fan in front of us who thought he should be playing, if not coaching because he could have for sure done a better job (despite the fact that he was probably in his 40's) so we also had a bit of entertainment on the side.
Coops stayed with Ryan's parents and, despite not taking a morning nap or eating lunch until almost 4:00, both parties survived.

Sunday we had a wedding for one of Ryan's employees down by Dayton. it was a beautiful, wonderful ceremony and reception on the grounds of this historic home. It was so "them" and we felt privileged and blessed to share in it. Although she's moving away now that they're married, we hope to see them again sometime soon. They're just great people who surround themselves with great people. Again, Coops stayed with the g-parents. We got home around 12:30am and he had only been asleep for like an hour! and even then, he had passed out on their bed and hadn't even made it to his crib! I'm sure he pulled every trick in the book to get them to let him stay up and it worked. we didn't think it was all that bad because we thought at least now he'd sleep in a little, so we could, yeah...not so much. he got up at 7:20, instead of 7:00.

yesterday, we made our way home and tried to get things back in order but it was a little difficult with Coops being a bear from his schedule being all off. last night we struggled with him for probably 2 hours (i nursed him to sleep 3 separate times! all of which didn't do the trick) before he finally fell asleep and STAYED asleep in his crib. we were just exhausted, particularly from our schedules being off too! but he slept until 7 this morning. so no complaints, I guess.

On a different note, his eye has been particularly bad over the weekend and his right ear (the one that wasn't infected last week) has been draining. I've got a call into the ENT to find out if there's anything other than drops that we should be doing -it could just be draining but who knows what's going on at this point!