Weekend update

What a weekend! By today, all of us were pooped!

Friday we had a garage sale. For some reason I really enjoy doing those. I think it's that I feel so good about clearing out our "junk". We made a little money, but seemed to have a bunch of stuff leftover. I put it all out by the road with a free sign on it, and it was gone within two hours. Saved Christopher a trip to Goodwill with it, and made some little junk lovers day.

I also had an interesting phone call from the director of nursing at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital on Friday. I had written a letter to several of the administrators of the hospital explaining our dissatisfaction with the nursing care, etc. while David was in the hospital, and she was calling to follow up on it. She seemed to be very sincere in her appreciation of the letter, and very apologetic for the issues we had. I should be hearing something from the nursing managers in the recovery area and the floor our room was on sometime this week.

Saturday we ran some errands in the morning and had Supper Club at Mike & Rachael's house that night. We had a great time! The theme was "Bar Food". There was so much yummy food! We brought shrimp cocktail, stuffed mushrooms, and rum cake. There was also fried pickles, chicken tenders, potato skins, buffalo wings, cheesecake, brownies. . . so much to choose from! Not the most healthy fare, but very good. David and Henry played HARD with all of their buddies. Those boys will play outside from sun-up to sun-down if I let them. David loved driving Tyler's mini-quad around the yard, especially up a little hill and rolling back down. Henry was more interested in throwing the sand toys down the slide and following Jenna, the only girl in a group of 12 children, around. He also wanted to hold Gabe, Jenna's 4 month old brother, every time he saw him. "I hold baby Babe!" He was so sweet, kissing and hugging him.

Today we were all pretty lazy this morning. We ran to Target, then went to Gigi and Grampy's house for a swim. The pool was FRIGID though (OK, probably like 75 degrees, but that's too cold for us!) so we played in the hot tub and the baby pool. David and Henry rode their tricycle and little motorcycle thing around the driveway, we played in the sandbox, had some lunch, and that was enough activity for us. We were all really tired from our gallivanting last night, so we came home and napped. Chris was, of course, asleep because he had to work tonight. As soon as we got home, David walked into the house, right to his room, sat on the bed, took his shoes off and climbed under the covers. This is a HUGE step for him, because he's been so anti-nap since moving out of his crib. He also stayed dry all day long with no accidents, which is another big deal around here. Hopefully we're on our way to consistently having dry pants. He's doing really well, just always wants "to pick a prize" when he goes to the bathroom. . . the child will be 40 and want a sticker and a prize from his wife when he uses the bathroom!

We're going to spend the morning at the Farmer's market tomorrow. Have a great day!