February 26, 2009

Well. Through 4 years a college, an extra 6 months in the Army and a year of waking up before dawn in the frigid northlands of Wisconsin, never has an alarm clock failed Daddy. Until Today. Generally, if the alarm clock doesn't go off, it has been user error- not setting it correctly or at all. This morning, though, When 6:15 was the target wake-up time, The 3' high alarm clock in the other room (That's Timmy, for you metric fans) woke Daddy up at 7:30. Fortunately, though Timmy's cry could be heard a room away, Daddy's swearing could not.

In record time, Daddy and Timmy went from dozing peacefully to driving down the road- 5 minutes, to be exact. This is impressive, for those of you without kinder- it really is. Timmy's breakfast was put on hold until he got to daycare, but he did get a diaper change and change of clothes. Fortunately, Timmy's diaper bag and lunch were packed the night before.

We made it to daycare by 8:45- still running 45 minutes behind, but better than the hour and a half we woke up with. Timmy was screaming the whole way- either because he was hungry (a strong possability) or because he had no idea what was going on. It's a good thing Timmy was in the car, though- he kept Daddy from going over the speed limit (never go over 70 with a toddler in the car!) and there were at least a half-dozen state police patrol cars en-route this morning.

That reminds me, I was going to ask Aunt Beth if she made it to work citation-free.

When I picked Timmy up, he was the happiest child in the world. He loves being at daycare. I think it's because it's him and 4 or 5 girls there. No other boys. And from Timmy's perspective, they're all older!

The rest of the evening was pretty tame- Timmy didn't want mac and cheese for dinner, so he got cereal instead. He got to sleep around 7:15 and did not wake up until the next morning!

I might add, according to the ice analysis this morning, the entire surface of Lake Superior has at least partial ice cover (look to the picture on the right). This is what is known as a 20-year event- something that only happens, on average, once every twenty years. Very good for lake levels, and very bad for that researcher at Duluth who was arguing that Lake Superior was getting irreversibly warmer.