Now Known As Mommy

We went to visit grandma and poppy yesterday. It's a 3 hour drive to get there. Mitch did great...for the first hour and a half...He screamed the rest of the (for some reason) 2 hours it took us to get there. Normally he naps in the car. He slept for 30 minutes...we have taken longer car rides than 30 minutes. So he was up from 8:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. and slept for a total of maybe 35 minutes (that is including the 5 minutes he slept in daddy's arms from pure exhaustion.) He was not a happy kid. I can not get my kid to sleep in my arms...I don't know what it is. Maybe Mitch's fascination with my face is overwhelming his ability to sleep. I don't know, but my hubby can get him to sleep in less then 10 minutes. It's a miracle, but of course as soon as daddy puts him down he's back to screaming. I love the swing...I don't know what I would do without it, although it's really time to get on with the nap training. Adam is off this weekend...maybe we will do it then.
Mitch got his catch up shots today. We had to switch insurance and in case you didn't know they love to drag it out. And frankly I don't have the money to shell out 800+ dollars to get mitch his shots and hope the insurance pays me back in my lifetime. So we are playing catch-up. He did very well as soon as they were over and I picked him up he stopped crying. Until he saw the nurse and he cried at her! It was precious.
Mitch likes to throw things now. The whole experimenting with gravity thing. I don't let him throw his sippy cup. He throws it once, mommy or daddy pick it up and tell him not to do it again. He throws it again and we take it. That's it no more sippy for a while. He knows this and has gotten fantastic at not throwing sippy cups. Well we were at grandma and grandpas and we took his highchair and I gave him his sippy cup. He dropped it and grandpa picked it up for him. I told him not to throw it again. Well he slowly put it out over the side of the highchair and he looked at me and I told him "no" he looked over at grandma and grandpa and then threw it. He turned back to me and gave me the biggest "take that" smile I have ever seen. ugh! 7 months old and too smart for his own good, what am I gonna do??