So Much To Say, So Little Time

My sweet boy is back home and caught up on his sleep. It was very rare for him to ever take a nap but after the study, he would take one almost daily once we got home. Guess the nap study worked. :)

I had fun in Chicago when I went to pick him up. So Devan spent his 16th birthday in the sleep lab. The doctor running the study was super nice and made him a cake and all the research assistants gave him a card and had a big birthday sign over his bed. My sister went to spy on him and take him a present to open on that day too. They were not allowed visitors during the lab time but visitors could come watch them on a monitor from another room. It was very thoughtful of them to try to make his birthday special in the middle of the study. And especially nice of the doctor to make the cake and bring it over because she got called to Boston and only had time to swing by and drop the cake off before heading to the airport. We took him out for dinner the night he got done with the study and the next day we went shopping in downtown Chicago. Later that night we went Go Kart racing. There was a track that had a slick track and a regular track. I am AWESOME at drifting! For those of you who don't know what drifting is, its fishtailing - on purpose. I had the best lap time first time and second best lap time on our last race. Next movie in the Fast & Furious franchise: Fast & Furious Suburban Mom Showdown.

Hard to believe my baby is 16. He's loving it! I guess I am too. He helped me drive about 3 hours coming home from Chicago. That was nice. He probably would have driven longer but since our car is a little small and he feels kinda cramped driving it, he couldn't sit that long. He's too tall and needs to stretch out.

Things are back to normal now. School has started now and we are back to schedules and bed times. Well, I'm a little soft on bed times, as long as they go to bed within reason. Devan is going to do marching band again so practices will be starting for him soon (already started for the rest of the band but he wasn't here and it ordering himself a new bass. Fairly heavy school load again plus marching band, if I didn't know him better I would say my son has turned into a geek. A tall sixteen year old who calls him mom to tell her he just took two trains and a bus to get the Best Polish Sausage in Chicago.