GWL

This past weekend we went to the Great Wolf Lodge for Dennis's Dad's birthday. We had all of his family and it was a great time.

 



Mollie, Will, Tenley, and Hadley

 

I did NOT get many pictures at the Great Wolf Lodge. When we got there we went straight to the pool and when one parent is chasing a 3 year old and the other is holding the 1 year old, you just don't get the camera out. They both LOVED it though. Before we even got into the swimming area, Lillian was laughing.

We swam until about 5 the first day and went up to get some supper and relax a bit. Will and his pain tolerance will forever amaze me. We got to the room and I notice his toe is bleeding all around his toe nail. I said "buddy, your bleeding!" And he looks at his hands trying to figure out where... This is probably when we should have tried to get Will down for a nap. He does not do well without naps yet. He NEEDS them or he NEEDS to be in bed, asleep at 6:30PM. End. Of. Story.

Lillian got to sleep pretty much on time, with only a morning nap she was falling asleep at 6:45 drinking her bottle so she went straight to bed and was doing great. The rest of us stayed up and chatted, watched the game and just had fun.

 

I am a person who does not do well on less than say 7 hours of sleep. I do best with 9. So at 10:00 I said Good-night and headed to bed. Will stayed up for a bit longer but I finally got him to bed at 10:30. Around 11:30 is when the fun started. With so little sleep, Will was a bear! He screamed for Mom, his Monkey (that we so happened to have forgotten) and that he wanted to go home. We were all in one room so his screaming proceeded to wake Lillian up. She screamed. He calmed down for a bit and then started to scream again. She woke up, and screamed. This was the pattern for the next 3 1/2 hours. I *think* we had about four hours of sleep. That might be stretching it some.

 

Woke up around 6:45 with more screaming and that was when we gave up and got up. Everyone else got up and went to church while we decided to stay and try to get the kids to nap a little more. Lillian got another 30 minute nap until Will woke her up. See a pattern here?

 

As we were both exhausted it was a toss up to swim again or just go home. We opted for the swim as this is our vacation. Left around noon and silence the whole way home! It took Will a good FULL day to catch up on sleep. He took a 3 hour nap the next day and I even had to wake him up.

 

This was Wiley. He was at story time that night and Will wanted to give him a hug until time came to hug him and he wouldn't go near him. I even tried to go with him, so cousins, Sadie and Sawyer took the picture with him.