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The latest round of guests are gone and a quiet calm has fallen over the house. Dan is in the other room watching a movie, I have been watching a backlog of bad TV on the DVR and lazily surfing the net. Will is fast asleep after a pajama stripping/diaper-taking-off incident in bed. As wonderful, wonderful, having our latest guest here was there is something so nice about just having the three of us in our quiet little house again.

Since this guest was mostly Dan's, Will and I have gotten to spend a lot of time together over the last few days. Our nightly routines have been pared down to just the two of us, and we have had such a nice time. I think he is about ready to have Daddy do nighttime again - I just don't quite read certain books the right way - but we have made new little traditions and inside jokes just in the course of a couple of days. His newest movie obsession in Mulan...there's something about the Huns I guess. He's memorized a couple of the songs and his been singing "I'll make a man out of you" at the top of his lungs every time we get into the car. He's even memorized a couple of lines from the movie and it is very important that when these lines come up, I must stop whatever I am doing and "act out" the scene with him....which of course makes me want to explode from all the cuteness and just plain earnest-ness.

It's hard though sometimes, these days that I get to spend so much time with him, to give it up. It's amazing how quickly I can fall into a rhythm that I just don't want to interrupt with things like work and daycare and having to let Dan put him to bed tomorrow night...