The Hempler Family: Halloween!

This wasn't Robert's first Halloween but this was the first one he didn't sleep through...well actually he barely slept at all this Halloween but more about that in a bit! Because Halloween fell on a Saturday we decided to go to Red Wing for the holiday plus we don't know that many people in Robbinsdale for Robert to visit and my mom had a long list of places she wanted to go.

So Saturday morning Eric dropped me off at St. Kate's and then kept on driving to Red Wing with Robert and the dogs. I headed down to Northfield with my team for our relay meet and my mom joined me there to watch the team swim and then drive me home. The meet went great but I've realized the biggest trigger for my foot pain is standing on it for long periods of time. I was wearing a boot, per doctor's orders after being diagnosed with a stress fracture, which helped but I think I probably should have sat down between races...I'll try this at our meet next week!

Once we got into town we made dinner and then headed out to visit family friends. We didn't get to as many places as we'd have liked but we did enjoy the stops we got to. Once we returned home we thought Robert was tired and ready for bed...boy were we wrong. He had a lot of energy and sleep wasn't what he wanted and no he didn't have any candy well maybe a little snickers bar that he chewed his way through the package. He normally goes to bed by 8:00 but he wasn't ready for bed until after 10:30 at first we weren't too concerned since it was daylight savings but then it got to be a little too late. Part of the reason he wasn't going to sleep was because we determined that he was scared of being left alone in a new place. It wasn't really a new place since he has slept in the same room at my mom's house since January but he didn't remember this and is at the fun stage of needing to be with mom/dad at all times. So at 10:30 we gave up on alternating between listening to him cry and run around the house and he came into bed with us. Of course the bed that we sleep in at my mom's is a full size bed which meant Eric and I were up most of the night due to a tossing & turning little boy. We thought since he went to bed late he'd at least sleep in a little bit but nope was up at 4:30am (would have been 5:30 if we didn't change the clocks but this is still over an hour earlier than normal). So needless to say Eric and I are exhausted today but couldn't nap because Robert didn't go down for his nap until right before the Packer/Viking game and we couldn't miss that...well I could have but decided to use this time to update our blog instead of sleep! We hope that tonight he'll be back on his normal schedule since he'll be in his own bed and that daylight savings won't throw him totally off his routine.

We hope everyone else had a safe and fun Halloween!

Halloween Dinner - Pumpkin shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's