Rip Van Novak

Look who just woke up from a three hour nap!

John Deere Harvester night at the ballpark

I woefully need to catch up on blog posts. Especially our vacation. But tonight I took the two older boys to a baseball game. 

John Deere Harvester Works offered free tickets to employees as a celebration of recent success. They also provided a free dinner. And...it was bobble head giveaway night!

Bye bye crib...hello big boy bed!

I'm so far behind on things this summer that I'll probably be posting in September about Nate's DNA experiment that we did in June...but I had to get this milestone up today.

Novak has a big boy bed!

My new bed!

Checking out the new bed.

Doesn't he look excited?

He slept in this bed all night last night without any trouble.  He didn't get up, didn't wake in the middle of the night crying, and didn't ask for his "binky" (his pacifier, which he has needed almost every night for his entire life).  

I'm a bit sad about this.  My baby is growing up, and although I know it's inevitable (and life continues to be much better the older and more mature he gets), it's still bittersweet.  There was a part of me last night that was hoping he would wake up crying for his binky - so that he wouldn't cross two milestones in the same night.  But this was just my mom instinct kicking in, the one that wants to cuddle my babies until they are 21.

And almost as if he could sense it, Novak just came in and crawled into my lap to give me a huge hug.  

"Mommy, I just need you."  

Okay, so I still have that....