Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (Not in that exact order)

SOMETHING BORROWED
Last Saturday we met our Friends the Uribes at McDonald's for lunch before heading to Dennis the Menace Park, the weather was holding and we were excited to share a good time with our friends. The new McDonald's was a madhouse but we got our food quickly and were able to enjoy it outside. The Bird was having Chicken McNuggets for the first time...I think? After finishing lunch, we headed to the park where the boys quickly found and fell in love with the slide on the 5-12 year olds section of the park. Luckily those kids were off doing other things which left the slide for the 2+year olds. I shadowed the Bird because it was, after all, a jungle gym for older kids. As I was taking my second picture, the camera rudely told me I hadn't prepared as well as I had thought and promptly shut down due to power failure. I'm happy to say that we BORROWED LA's great picture taking skills to take all the pictures for us, documenting a wonderful afternoon!

SOMETHING NEW
Same Saturday, later that evening, the Bird was having a toot-fest and after one extremely powerful one, I thought to change his diaper for fear of what smelled like a real blow-out. Much to my surprise there was nothing there but I did ask if he'd like to sit on the potty. Being the good sport that he is, he sat down and I sat across from him on the big potty, all the while, coaching him about a little push here and there. Low and behold after a big look of hesitation and some whiney "Mama's" he did something NEW, he pooped in the potty! Wow! I made a huge deal about it telling him he made poo-poos and giving him hugs and high fives. It took a second but he was cheering about the poop right along with me and clapping furiously! I never knew poop was cheer-worthy until I saw the Bird's first one in the potty. He's growing up and there's no turning back now, I suppose. Later in the week he made pee-pee in the potty for Grammy.

SOMETHING OLD and BLUE
On Friday the Bird had a low-grade fever that made it's way up to 103.7 before we headed to the ER. Luckily HH wasn't too busy and we made it in and out in 2.5 hours. As I see it now, there is no rhyme or reason for his fever except a swollen toothbud. There are no signs of a cold although the DOD did see a slight hint of an ear infection and a little throat redness so he ordered an Antibiotic shot which gave him a BLUE boo-boo, poor thing! The OLD--as we were finally taken into a room to be examined, the RN took out a children's cover-up and I tell you the Bird screamed and thrashed wildly. I told Aaron, "That is the same cover-up they put him in for his surgery last year"...he REMEMBERED!! Oh man, did I feel horrible! I thought his memory wasn't supposed to be so greatly developed. "Off! Off!" is all he kept crying to us. I was the mean one to put it on him so, "Dada, Dada!" followed. I am shocked that he remembered and even more shocked that not only the cover-up freaked him out so did the bed, he wouldn't get on the bed to save his life. He's doing a ton better today and hopefully we won't be at the ER anytime soon. I know now that if we ever go back, we're going to bring our own cover-up so he isn't further traumatized.

Parenthood is an adventure, one that I wouldn't trade, ever!