Workshop Warrior

Saturday, July 26, 2008

This morning, we slept in a little and missed the early morning session, but we hurried to make it to the first class. While we were getting ready in the room, Mom put Caleb down on his tummy on the Boppy pillow and she put a little horse rattle in front of him.

The horse rattle is another one of my favorit toys of Caleb's (I love his toys!). The horse has a ring that you pull that makes the horse vibrate as it draws back in. He has started paying attention to this horse just since we went to New Mexico and watching it makes him laugh. This morning, he was getting a kick out of just looking at it.

This morning, I used the Bjorn carrier the first time. When we were registering for baby gifts, Mom just wanted to register for the Boppy sling and I insisted that I would use the Bjorn carrier and that we should keep it on the registry. Since Caleb has started riding in it, Mom has used it exclusively.

I decided to give it a try. I was able to get Caleb to go to sleep on my chest. He stayed that way for the better part of the morning. The carrier is very convenient.

Mom dressed Caleb in his yellow Lipscomb onesie to wear around the conference today. At lunch in the hotel restaurant, we sat a couple of tables over from Rhonda Lowry, wife of Lipscomb President Randy Lowry who joined her before she finished her meal. I was holding Caleb up on the table and as the Lowrys got up to leave, they noticed his onesie and came over to say hello. I asked Dr. Lowry if he had a scholarship available, but he was noncommital.

Tonight during the dinner break, Caleb's Uncle Bob took us to Boma which is a restaurant in the Animal Kingdom Lodge at Walt Disney World. Boma is an all-you-can-eat buffet of African foods. We all ate a lot of food and were quite stuffed by the end of dinner. We then wandered around the Animal Kingdom Lodge. There are several exotic animals living on the grounds and went to several observation points to see the animals and then returned to the workshop.

After the final session tonight, Mom and Caleb headed back to our room. We had a requested a crib, but it was not brought to our room last night. Mom complained today and we
had a crib tonight. Mom tried to put Caleb in the crib. Of course, Caleb did not last long before Mom brought him to bed. We had a king size bed, so we were able to all stay in the bed together. Mom was able to catch a picture of Caleb playing with the bars of the crib before she picked him up.

We subjected Caleb to quite an extensive schedule today. Tomorrow, we are going home for real and to stay.