Vacation's all I ever wanted...

It is now almost dead center of our week's vacation, so as we have internets at the vacation home I thought I would go ahead and give an update of what is going down in Emmett's and our worlds. In case I haven't mentioned it before, we are spending the week on a house that backs into Clear Lake (the wholly-contained natural lake that keeps Eagle Lake positioned as the second-largest wholly-contained natural lake in california----a little susanville reference for those with ties). We have rented a ski boat along with the house (there are nine of us here for the week---Belinda, Luisa, Rob, Nick, Jeff, Allie along with our fam---with a number of others coming only for the weekends), so we have had a lot of fun times on the lake with water skiing, good food, and good memories.

The time with Emmett has not gone as smoothly, though. We arrived on Sunday and Emmett spent Sunday and Monday nights sleeping 1.5-2 hours then waking screaming, then repeating. It made for a rough couple of nights for his parents; especially Andrea who has been feeding him at each waking. This is a problem we have not encountered before as Emmett has always been a really good sleeper, and the problem is much worse with a house full of friends that you don't want to suffer poor night's sleep as we attempt to get him to cry it out---therefore the feeding defense. It is just crazy how as parents you often have no idea why your kid is not sleeping well. We were thinking that maybe E is teething (doesn't seem to be the case with no excess slobber), that he is ready to start solid food (often kids don't sleep as well when they hit this point, but we don't have the goods to start on food up here...so I bought an avocado which he may start on tomorrow if he doesn't continue sleeping better----Andrea also gave him a little bit of banana and it went down the hatch without him even noticing), or that it is just the new place. Who knows. Luckily last night he slept with only two wakings, which is much closer to normal and makes for much happier parents.

I have been getting up at 6ish with Emmett to try and give Andrea a little more sleep, and it has been nice to be on a lake's edge with him early in the morning. It is warm even that early so I take him out in just his diaper and he will sit in my lap happily and just look around without any other stimulus for a good hour or so. It was pretty neat this morning as Emmett was sitting in my lap looking straight up and actually tracking birds with his eyes and his head. I hadn't realized it before having Emmett, but babies can't really track things that move quickly until they get older. When he was only a few months old I would wave things in front of his eyes and then move them to the side, and only if I moved very slowly could he actually track them. Well, things are changing to that kid and he is now an official bird watcher.

Other than that, not too much going on. Boring post, but what else really happens on vacation?