Morning time

For a while, post France, Maceo was waking up consistently at5 or so, sometimes earlier, sometimes a little later. Then we got him a little owl nightlight, and he stays quiet till 5:40 or so, sometimes later! It's great! Then the ritual is to bring him in to cuddle till he wants to get down. He then wanders the upstairs for a bit, coming back in to check on us and to pet Tupelo until we get up. On the weekends, only one of us gets up and the other sleeps in. When he and I get up on the weekends, we go downstairs and he sits on the counter for 10 minutes or so, playing with the toaster oven and drinking some milk.

We play some more and when it's light enough out, Maceo insists that we go outside to play. He has a little car he really likes to push around, so we bring that across the street to the school's parking lot/playground/field,

and he can push to his heart's content and our neighbors's displeasure.