Sunday Togetherness

Sundays are always a little bit difficult for Luke because his nap schedule is thrown way off.  He usually goes down for a morning nap right around 9, but because Luke won't sleep well outside of a bed now and we're at church at 9, he usually just skips his morning nap.  By the time we leave, he is so exhausted that it is pretty much impossible to keep him from falling asleep in the car.  If he does fall asleep in the car, he never takes a good afternoon nap either, so Sunday is Luke's crankiest day.

This Sunday, we decided to take him out because that usually curbs the whining.  I uploaded these pictures in reverse order on accident, so our day is going to be described to you backwards.

Word about the picture below:  Jared and I wanted to scope out some things to do when Nathan and his family come, and Jared wanted to look for a biking trail that he had heard about, so we decided to go for a drive down to Jamestown.  It was so beautiful that we stopped next to the beach to take some pictures.  When we walked down, there were a couple people fishing.  One of the groups was an old-ish man and his son.  They told us about some fun stuff to do (like visit the glass blowers shop!) and they were pointing out different points of interest.

In the center of this picture, you can just barely see the outline of some buildings.  That's actually a nuclear power plant.  One of the guys who was fishing was pretty hilarious.  He was like, "What a great place for a nuclear power plant.  Our Nation's birthplace.  Over here is the very first settlement.  And over here is a nuclear power plant."  Okay, just reading that, it doesn't sound that funny at all.  But the guy made it sound funny.  Or maybe it was just his super long Santa beard and goofy flannel shirt that made it funny.  Or the fact that he had fishing poles stuck into the sand and held up with sticks besides his own fishing pole that he was holding.
Jared and Luke on the beach.  Behind them is Jamestown island where the very first English colony was established.  There's a big museum there where you can see artifacts and stuff, but Jared and I haven't gone inside yet.  The glass blowers shop is also over there, and I am really excited to see that.

Before we went driving around, we took Luke to the swings at the park.  He loves swinging.  He scoots way forward and then kicks his legs .  I know that in every picture Luke is sucking on a binky.  That's only because when we're outside and in other public places, I always shove it in to keep Luke from shoving other things into his mouth.  If he doesn't have his binky in, he sucks on the swing or on the chains.  It's really disgusting.