We wore him out...

(He just enjoyed a banana chocolate chip muffin. I left the chocolate on his face. It's so Jake.)

 

We finally did it. We managed to wear Jake out this weekend. This boy normally never stops. He hasn't napped since he was 18 months old. He moves all day long until he crashes at 8pm and sleeps for 12 hours. Today he was tired. That is not something I normally say. He yawned at Church and laid in my lap for the entire Mass. One of the Sisters even asked me if he was sick. He spent the day playing quietly in the house until Dan's family arrived to celebrate his Mom's birthday.

So...here's the recap.

Friday afternoon we decided to take Jake on a brewery tour at Anheuser-Busch InBev. Every 5 year old needs to know how they make the beer, right? We made a quick stop at Gus' for pretzels.

Jake and Daddy spent a few minutes watching the production process.

Jake seemed to enjoy the tour. He never complained that he wanted to leave, so that's a pretty good sign that he's having fun.

In the hospitality room, I was worried that we would have trouble keeping Jake away from the beer. Then I saw this.  (Yes...we have the 5 year old that likes the taste of wine and beer. We have the almost 21 year old that doesn't drink, and the 5 year old that needs to be monitored around nearly empty wine and beer glasses.)

Jake is not allowed to drink soda normally, but today was a special treat.

Of course, he found a penny in the gift shop and got to take home a new friend...a Clydesdale.

We made a quick stop at the farmer's market near the brewery.

 

Dan then surprised Jake with a trip to a coin store.

He got to bring home a few treasures from that shop, too.

Our last surprise was Ted Drewes. Jake loves eating his frozen custard in the back of the car.

We hit the grocery store on the way home for steaks which we grilled for dinner.

It was such a beautiful day. We deserve it! It's been a miserable summer. It made us appreciate the lower temp and cool breeze even more. After dinner, we spent the rest of the evening on our deck...being silly.

We spent 3 hours at my local pool on Saturday with family. We got cleaned up after that and spent another 3 hours at a neighbor's birthday party/family barbeque. I got Jake down by 8:45 Saturday night, but he sure was tired most of the day on Sunday.

He got a second wind just in time to enjoy his cousins at Mama Sally's birthday dinner.

I'm still working on two senior edits and hope to have those ready to share in the next few days. Jake and I have three more weeks together before school starts. He'll be in school 4 long days and 1 half day each week. We have a lot of fun and relaxation to pack in over the next 3 weeks before we are back to school schedule.