The excitement of a 3-year-old (and a 31-year-old)

This is what an excited 3-year-old looks like when he is trying to go to sleep the night before going on vacation (and to see Nana, Papa, Shelby, Aunt Dawn, Uncle Greg, Zach, Alex, Noah, Layne and Emily)! The poor thing had so much trouble getting to sleep!

This is what an excited 3-year-old looks like when he gets up early the morning that he gets to go on vacation!

The problem is, he said "Mom, I am ready to go see Nana now." (not in a yucky tone, but a subtle one that is just letting us know). The only problem is, he says this at 7:30 in the morning and we aren't leaving until Mike gets home from work at lunchtime! He is so excited that he can't stop talking! On Monday, he called Nana to tell her that there were 5 days until he saw her. She called him on Tuesday and he has called her every day since. I am not sure which one is more excited! Mike has taken half the day off and we are headed up to the Wisconsin Dells for the weekend, so it should be a good time!

He also got some new shoes for the trip, which as you can see above, he is so excited about them that he wore them to bed last night, causing a little bit of a blister on his heal. When he was showing them to his dad this morning, he said, "Dad, look at these shoes that Mom got me. They are so cool!" What a sweet little boy! I had the same problem he did. I couldn't get to sleep last night and was up by 6 am getting started on my "to do list" before we leave!