Busy busy weekend

Whew, what a busy weekend we've had! Saturday was the KCAP field trip to check out the Shatto dairy farm. We were disgustingly late, even with Brian to "help" and I actually turned around and started to come home because of how late it was and I hadn't even gotten there yet before he talked me into going the rest of the way because I'd already put the miles on the car and everything. And then he had to talk me into getting out of the car while I was bawling my eyes out because I was so embarrassed and I didn't think I could face anyone after they had specifically told ME to be on time and I was an hour and a half late. It was nice though for him to try to help me, Brian is usually telling me how awful it is for me to screw people over by being late when I'm invited somewhere. And I guess maybe they really are my friends because nobody laughed at me or said anything about how late it was.
Anyway, personal issues aside...I would not drive that far again for those cows. It was neat but I don't think it was worth the trip. Riley almost milked the cow, but just as she was getting ready to touch it, the cow peed everywhere and R got scared!
Cow farm pictures, I didn't take many:







Then, when we got home we went over to Grandpa and Grandma's house and Riley helped Grandpa and some friends paint the house and she had a lot of fun! Daddy painted too.












Big Rob just sat around with me most of the time, although he did have his first run-in with the EVIL 'uncle' T despite my best efforts to foil his approaches. I managed to keep myself in check but just barely. That experience is another post for another time though, and not nearly as fun as this one.





And the most exciting part of the weekend (for Daddy and Riley at least, I'm not so thrilled)...........Daddy got a motorcycle! I'm so sure this is a brilliant idea, and all the thanks can go to Grandpa. This lovely specimen has been rusting under FIL's porch for the last 3 years and he decided he wanted it gone yesterday so now it is in my garage. So let's all welcome a gutted (or whatever you do to a bike) 1976 Suzuki to the family.

happy time!!!!

I had to do some new pictures of Robby for a church thing for next month...here's the result. Except the sling one is from when he was in the hospital but I don't think I posted it yet.

This is just SO Riley

She's the anti-clean lately. So far this week she has dumped out most of a bottle of Shout on the bathroom flour and yesterday she greased up the couch with brother's Aveeno lotion. I think we're onto a slippery theme.

Random Thoughts Wednesday

*I wish we didn't have fingernails, because I cannot keep up with the cutting of them. Not mine, not the kids, and although I'm not taking the task of grooming Brian-his are always too long whenever I get a look at him.

*To the woman who is certainly the mother of two children and perhaps unfortunately the wife of one man who I had the pleasure of parking next to at Costco: I am sorry and I hope you DON'T know how he is talking to those kids and that you find out soon and put a stop to it. Your little boy and girl are lucky to have parents smart enough to keep them in good carseats although they are at least 5 years old, but they didn't do anything to deserve their father locking them out of the car and telling them they had to suffer for misbehaving him and would need to find their own ride home because they broke the rules.

*To the woman who was in line behind me at the Costco checkout: Thanks for helping unload my cart, but do I really look like I have my hands full? Really? I thought I was doing so well and I had myself fooled, but I guess not anyone else...that was my first shopping trip with two kids but I knew where they both were and nobody was crying so I don't think I really needed any help. How do the people with even more kid do it? I saw a woman walking on my street today with 4 kids under school age. She had three in a stroller and one walking and they were all clean and happy looking. Even the mom. What's the trick?

long time no update...

Baby was born on March 25 @ 3:49pm. I did have a successful waterbirth at home and it was a lot of hard work. He is a boy!!! He weighed 11 pounds at birth.
The day after he was born, there was some concern that he was breathing very fast and we made a decision to take him in to the urgent care at Children's Mercy South to have him checked out. What should have been a quick overnight observation turned into a nightmare of blood tests, spinal taps, misdiagnoses, ambulance transports, IVs, and 4 different antibiotics and we were trapped in the hospital for 2 straight weeks.
I am working on writing his story but it will be a little longer before I process all of it. We were freed from the hospital on April 9.
There was never anything "wrong" with him. He is a huge healthy happy perfect baby. Nothing I did made him sick. He is not sick. Nothing that I did or did not do during my pregnancy and birth caused him to be admitted to the hospital or put his health at any risk.
His name is Robby.










Since we have been home, we have had some rough times adjusting but we are doing ok for now. The whole experience has been far from what I hoped for and now we have to figure out damage control, but now I'm just grateful that it is all over. For instance, we were separated from Riley for the entire two weeks, save for a couple short visits. Her entire routine is gone. She doesn't know when to go to bed, she's been eating all kinds of crap, and she is terrified to be apart from us now.
But she's doing pretty good, all things considered:




And Robby is wonderful. We are so blessed to have such an excellent family and that we are all healthy and able to be together.