The Rays of Sunshine

Look out terrible 2's here we come. We have not reached the 2-year-old mark, but the terrible 2 tantrums have set in. Dylan has to be held 90% of the time. If he is held, he is happy. You set him down, and he will throw a fit, I mean, in the floor, laying on his back, arms in the air, CRYING! He is gaining his very own personality, and if he does not like something he will tell you. On the other hand, he is a very happy baby. When he loves something, he is all in. Barney is the best example. This kid is always on the move. He will watch parts of TV, but we rarely see him settle in for a whole show. On occasion, Barney is the exception, but he pops in for his favorite parts. Dylan loves to wave bye-bye and play in the water puddles. We still read a story every night, and he knows the sounds of a cow, cat, dog, and we are working on a pig. He can't stay away from books, even at Target. Then last week I filled up their mini pool with water, and the

Sunday  Although Sunday was a good day, I think we were both ready to come home. We still had quite a few things left to do on Sunday, but the homesickness was setting in, at least for me. Derek has been sick the whole time we have been gone and only starting feeling better yesterday, so that was weighing on my mind, but I pushed that aside and we begin our last official day in Chicago.  Our plan was to go to Wildberries for breakfast but once we got there, it was an hour wait. So we begin to scramble to find another place to eat and discovered that a lot of eating places are closed on Sundays downtown. Out of no other options, we wind up eating in a hotel lobby, where we shared one of the most underwhelming breakfasts of the whole trip.  The breakfast potatoes were good, but hey, it fed us.  Today we had planned to visit the Shed Aquarium, the Science and Industry Museum, eat at Portillo's, and take in more of Chicago before we left.  We headed to the Shed Aquarium