More adventures

Okay, so on Sunday we decided to try out going to church with both kids for the first time. When we got there, we saw it was "promotion Sunday" when Nate would graduate to the next class. But by the time I got through the crazy long line, the preschool class was full! Ack! This meant taking both Georgia and Nate to the adult service. We knew it wouldn't go well. Georgia wanted to eat, which we're still not smooth at doing in public, and Nate was talking but was being okay. We made it through half the service when both kids started getting testy. So we moved over to the Cry Room, where they have a TV and couches and chairs set up for families with fussy babies! Nate got to walk around, Georgia got to eat more, and Blake and I could sort of pay attention to the service. :) This weekend we'll get there much earlier to make sure Nate can go to his class! Through the whole service he kept asking to go to "widdle church."

That afternoon, we all went out for a romantic dinner for four for my and Blake's 6th anniversary. :) We went to Red Lobster and had a great dinner. I have pictures.


I put Georgia in her coming home dress for church and dinner. She doesn't particularly like her frilly dress, but she sure looked pretty.



Eskimo kisses.

Here's Nate on Monday. This was all his idea, and he was very proud of his creation, until one train would get a little out of order, and then he freaked. A bit of a perfectionist? Yeah, I used to have that problem. I think having Nate cured me.

And here's Georgia all milk drunk and smiling in her sleep. Awwwwww!

Yesterday we had aquatherapy as usual. It's at 3:15, and I had to start getting everyone awake from naps and dressed and fed at 2, and by the time I got us all loaded in the truck, we were still running late. When we got there, I got everyone unloaded and hauled into the building, and when we got to the pool, I saw there was no water in the pool!!!! And no one was there. I checked my phone and saw that the PT had left me a message while I was getting everyone ready. She said, "I know we talked about this last week, but I wanted to call and remind you we're meeting at Paradise Divers this week because they're cleaning the pool at Mary T. See you at 3:15!" What?! She DID NOT tell me this last week! I called her back and told her I have no recollection of this conversation, and now we're at Mary T., and she says, "Well, that's okay." Excuse me? Like I have inconvenienced her? It's really not okay. By now I'm exhausted from getting us all there. So then I had to load everyone back in the truck and drive a half hour to the other pool. At this pool, there were so many SCREAMING children. I'm used to the quiet little old ladies at the therapy pool, I guess. Then we hit major traffic on the way home, and that took 45 minutes. By the time we got home, everyone was crying and hungry. It was exhausting. It would have been exhausting with one kid, but just the logistics of getting Georgia ready and hauling her around and arranging feeding schedules, etc. in addition makes it significantly harder. However, she did sleep and look pretty the whole time we were there, so it could be much worse. Poor thing is getting dragged around more than any newborn should be. :)

Today Nate started a new therapy--PT in the clinic at the same place he has hippotherapy. This replaces the PT at home that we had with First Steps. But now it means having 3 therapies (aquatherapy, PT in clinic, hippotherapy) in addition to half-day preschool. I'm hoping we can drop something soon, but all of them are so great and seem essential. We'll see how it goes. Miss Nikki is his therapist, and we both like her. She had Nate walking on a treadmill--backwards and sideways! No kidding! He did great too. I told him he would have to tell Daddy all about it. She also had him climbing steps and all sorts of really tough things. It's going to be great for him.

We then went immediately to Blake's work to pick him up and take him to the airport. He is going on a trip to Las Vegas with his team at work. They earned it by doing a certain number of loans or something. He keeps saying it's for work, but that is not true! It's WITH work, but they are NOT going to be working while there! :) It's just a vacation with his coworkers. Anyway, as soon as he got in the truck, Nate said, "Daddy, tell you all about it." He was confused, but I realized he wanted to tell him all about walking on the treadmill, haha. Last night Blake had a talk with Nate about how he was going out of town for a couple days and they'd talk on the phone every day and all that. Well, today, Nate wasn't so easygoing about it. When we got to the airport, we hung out in the truck for a few minutes to kill some time. Blake reminded Nate he was going to be gone a couple days, and Nate said, "Nope, not MY days." and "Nope, not MY airplane." (He's going through a "mine" phase now.) But he was a trouper. We'll see how the week goes. Blake will get back Saturday evening.

Keep me in your thoughts as I do this by myself for the next few days! Oh, and I got a call from Blake a little while ago that his flight was delayed, so keep him in your thoughts too. Not sure if he's getting to Vegas tonight or not.