Sleepy baby

Today, Mama was going to a play and had to leave just after 3pm. I was planning a marathon cooking session so we timed it for Tug to go to bed before Mama left so he'd be settled. He slept fine until I scorched some veggies in the bottom of a pan and some smoke wafted back to the bedroom. He insisted on coming out to check on everything at that point. He was so sleepy, though, he kept wandering around checking for Mama. He looked at her chair, wandered back to the bedroom, checked her rocker on the porch and then would just stare at me- look at the door- and look at me again. Poor thing just couldn't get settled and I was too busy cooking to take a time out and play or let him sleep in my lap. Mama came home and we ate dinner and he just wanted to relax. They even went to bed earlier than usual and Tug went into his crate without hesitation. I even came in a little later to ask Mama a question and didn't even see his nose peeking out under the edge of the crate cover...normally, he looks out when I walk into the room and settles back down. I think he slept through it!