Little thumb sucker

Dylan has recently started sucking his thumb - especially at night. For a few nights I heard a lot of loud sucking noises off and on as he worked on his fist. But over the last 4-5 nights or so he's finally found his thumb, and the sucking noise has gone way down. :) It's been so adorable to look into his little bed and see him sucking away! It seems that in the same time frame he's been sleeping longer at night. I'd say the average is now 10 hours, and two nights ago he went 12.5 hours!! It's nice that he seems to be soothing himself with his thumb instead of waking up. :) Go, Dylan! Getting more sleep has helped me to feel like a real person again, and it helps me to not get as frustrated during the day since I'm not really sleep deprived anymore. What a difference! Here's a picture of our sweet boy sucking his thumb in bed this afternoon:
Over this past weekend we went out to Rockford to go to the Boone County Fair with Steve's parents. We thought Micah would enjoy it this year even more than last year. We walked through lots of the animal barns, and he seemed mildly interested. After a while he got sick of being in the stroller, so we took him out and let him walk around by the Home Ec building. There was one step up into the building, then a ramp to come out of it, and WOW, was that his favorite thing of the day! He must have spent at least a half hour going up the one stair, down the ramp, and repeating this over and over and over. The other highlight was drinking water out of the water bottle instead of out of his sippy cup. He ended up soaking himself, of course, by spilling the water all over, but it was a hot day and I bet it felt good! Dylan slept through the whole thing (in Grandma's arms), and Steve and I enjoyed some yummy, greasy fair food. :)