Paul recently took a trip to Dallas with his boss's boss for a huge food convention. He slept in luxury accommodations all paid for by the school.  

Cowboy on Stilts

The Resort

James and I had movie nights every night, ate lots of fruit snacks and hot dogs. We stayed up super late every night and James slept in my bed, which is probably going to cause some sleep issues in the future.  I don't like sleeping alone though and in order to not freak out I had to be truly wiped out before going to bed.  I feel so much safer with Paul around.

I took James to his first movie. He really wanted to explore the theater, but after about 45 minutes of that, he finally passed out. I don't know if I'll be taking him to the movies again anytime soon.

In front of the theater

One of the few times he wasn't squirming around

And then there were the things that Paul does around the house that I didn't realize that he did.
Like taking out the trash (needless to say, the place was pretty smelly after a few days) and filling up the humidifier (it actually will run out of water!).  Not to mention his hour or so of play time with James when he gets home from work that gets all of James' wiggles out. There was also a spider incident that was particularly horrifying.

We are so glad that he's home. Paul and James have been playing pretty much non-stop since he's been back. Now we just have to get back into some sort of schedule. What a crazy summer it's been so far!