Raising Watsons

Let it be known from this day forward … Tucker Watson has slept through the night.  I’m not saying it’s ever going to happen again, I’m just excited it happened at all.

(not my picture, by the way)

Huge news today!

At 7:15 I woke up confused, put on my robe and walked in to Tucker’s room.  7:16 I placed my hand on Tucker’s back, gave him a gentle shake and told him it’s time to wake up and go to school.  This morning, for the first time ever, I woke up my son.

Usually Tucker wakes at 12-1ish, 4-5am and again at 7am when he’s up for good. Not only did he sleep past the 7am mark but he completely skipped the 4-5am wake-up.

I felt his head to see if he had a temperature, but he felt normal.    Please God, let him do it again tomorrow.

In the meantime, here’s some pics from our mother/son weekend in Seattle that also happened to be during the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Board of Directors conference in Seattle.

Note the sweet roller derby action post-its in the background and I think Crackerjack slurping down some coffee or beer/boxed wine (pretty much the only options).

Aside from stealing everyone’s Sharpie’s, Tucker was good baby relief from the intense roller derby talk when he wasn’t crying or  slamming his head in to some precariously balanced object.

Tucker was sent home from day care for green material exiting his nose in unpleasant quantities. So dad took the morning shift and hung out with the little dynamo until Mom came home. We grilled some chicken, layed on the hammock, whipped up a batch of guacomole (not nearly as good as mom’s!), and played LOTS of drums.

More pictures from Mexico.  Maybe we’ll have actual Christmas day pictures up before February.  Maybe, but not likely.

pool time with Aunt Catherine.

There was an island in the middle of the pool.  Great for warming up when his lips started turning blue.

All the pool excitement allowed for good naps.

Our little slice of pool side heaven always had the ipod playing

and Tuckers clothes drying on the umbrella.

I think these last pictures capture how happy our little Pisces was in the pool.  He couldn’t get enough.

Our trip to Mexico is going to take a few posts.  Mainly because we had nothing to do but take pictures, so there’s lots of them.  Also, we got a new DSLR camera for christmas (from ourselves) and this was an excellent opportunity to test it out.  Not to mention, Ben has gotten pretty good at touching up the photos afterwards.

This is part one of two of pool pictures.  Every day in Mexico Tucker would go swimming with Dad, Aunt Cathy and Aunt Jacqueline while Mom read pool side and took pictures.  There were large shallow sections where Tucker could crawl all around.  His other favorite thing to do was sit on the wall and jump in to Dad’s arms.