Eli heads to Denver

Last week Kelvey had a conference in Denver, CO so I was left in charge of Eli for the week. Since I can't produce milk and it is too hard to catch and milk the squirrels in the back yard, I packed Eli up and we headed out to Denver to so that Eli could continue to drink the sweet nectar of milk from his mother. Eli and I hung out in the hotel room and took walks around downtown while Kelvey worked throughout the day. I tried to take Eli to the Denver Art Museum so he could become cultured in the contemporary arts, but he ended up sleeping the entire time. I waited around until he woke up and then tried to show him some of the cooler interactive exhibits, but he was still half a sleep and did not seem to know what was going on. Maybe next time.

Later in the week we met up with my brother and his fiance and went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. There was quite a bit to see there but I was a little worried when Eli was more intrigued by the goldfish swimming in a tiny tank than the giant stuffed grizzly bear right next to it. As we explored the museum some more Eli became more aware of the crazy exhibits and he seemed to enjoy the animal displays the most.

It was fun hanging out with Eli all day and then relaxing together as a family in the evening, but when the sun set and bedtime rolled around . . . the beast was unleashed. For some reason, Eli could not sleep at all in the hotel room. He slept fine the first night but the following 2 nights he woke up every hour with a blood curdling scream. We couldn't tell if it was the diaper rash, the hard mattress in the hotel crib or the high altitude that was making him uncomfortable, but we did not get wink of sleep those 2 nights. I could deal with the getting up, but what made it worse was the anxiety that the people next door to us were having to suffer the commotion as well. We were worried that Eli had reached the point of being fussy at night for no reason like some of our friends had told us about their babies, but thankfully everything went back to normal as soon as we got home. He is now sleeping through the night again and all is right with the world.

The thing I liked most about our trip to denver was that Eli got to see some real snow. Since we live in Texas, Eli doesn't have any clothing fit for playing in the snow so we couldn't actually roll around it and make snow angels without him getting completely soaked and freezing. We did make a snow ball for him and he did his inquisitive scratching to figure out what this crunchy white stuff is. For more awesome pics of our trip to Denver, check out our flickr.com page.