was busy! I have found myself literally running from place to place.
Monday we went to Vanderbilt for Spina Bifida clinic, and it was really boring and almost a waste of our time, which is just how we like it! No excitement! The kids and I went down there by ourselves because Blake couldn't get away from work, but we had a great helper anyway. Memaw and GrandBob just happened to be at Vandy that day for a long day of appointments for Bob, and Memaw handled Georgia for me so I could wrangle Nate. We somehow ended up with the greatest room ever, with a TV and toys, but there was still screaming and poopy diapers and lots of drama. Thank goodness for Memaw! (But hate that Bob had to be there.)
Tuesday and Wednesday, our new nanny came along with us to therapies! Her name is Alisa, she is the one who offered to do laundry, and that's all I'm going to say about nannies right now! :) I can tell she's going to be great with the kids.
Then Thursday and Friday, we went on a trip to the Great Wolf Lodge (waterpark) in Cincinnati! This is the closest we've been to a vacation in two years, and we had a blast! Nate was looking forward to it all week. Blake told him about it on Monday, and he immediately ran to the door saying "Let's go!" :) I guess Blake talked up the water slides, because the whole way there he kept saying "It's too scary." But by the end of the first night, he was telling Granna, "It wasn't scary!"
When we first got there, I had to feed Georgia, but I saw Nate and Blake checking out the slides. In the kiddie pool, there were two little slides and two bigger, winding slides. They were for little kids, but they were still pretty impressive slides. Nate wanted to go on one of the bigger ones, but if Blake took him to the top, there was no one waiting to catch him at the bottom. So he decided to wait. We played around the kiddie pool, splashed in the wave pool, floated along the lazy river, and just generally ran around like we were all little kids. Georgia wasn't quite as impressed as the rest of us. The water was a bit too chilly for her, and she just kept giving us looks like, "Where the heck ARE we?" Nate wanted to go up this playground structure that had steps leading to a really tall tree-house like thing. Well, he walked up holding on to the railing and Blake's hand, but on the way down, when Blake went to grab his hand, he said, "No, I do it myself!" and for the first time ever, Nate walked down stairs by himself! We were SO proud of him. There was lots of giggling and just really enjoying each other.
Then we got to check into our room, and it was so neat! There was a "wolf den" with bunk beds for Nate to sleep in, and it had its own TV. He kept running in and out, giggling! We ordered some food to be delivered and while we waited we went down to the "Cub Club" where there are toys and crafts and coloring. Nate played leggos with some other kids while Georgia crawled around and even stood holding on to a toy. She's crawling so great now! I need to post a video.
After we ate, it was time to go out to the lobby for "pajama story time." Nate was so cute--he made his way to the front row and sat down with the other kids. Georgia and I sat a couple rows back, and it didn't even phase him. I love that he is big enough (and able enough) to do this kind of stuff now! Afterwards we went back to the room, and Nate kept saying, "It's not bed time, it's not bed time" because he was having too much fun to sleep.
Let me back up and say that Blake left my purse at home sitting by the front door! And the worst thing was that my camera was in my purse (along with every other essential thing). So we stopped at Walmart on the way there Thursday to get Nate some water shoes and Georgia some swim diapers, and I bought a little $10 digital camera. I had been wanting to get one for Nate to take pictures with anyway. Well, it was Friday morning before I got around to opening it, then I needed batteries, so I went down the the gift shop and paid $4.99 for four double A's, only to discover when I got back to the room that the camera takes AAA's! The gift store clerk was nice enough to exchange the batteries, so I took a cute picture of Nate and the kids before we went in the park. Well, Nate was ready to do the big slide. Blake took him up there, and I took a picture of him getting on the slide. Next thing I see is Nate coming around the curve face first, screaming! He splashed into the water, and I had to pull him up out of it, while he cried and his face was bleeding. :( In the midst of this, a lifeguard who was wandering around asks, "Is your camera waterproof?" Ugh, I let it go under water!!!!! And of course it didn't work at all after that. Anyway, back to Nate, he somehow hit his face on the slide and scraped up his chin pretty bad and his noes a little. He didn't notice it much while we were at the park, but after we left, he kept saying his chin hurt and asked Blake to kiss it. Then he seemed so confused as to why it STILL hurt after the boo boo kiss! Kids are so innocent. :) He had Blake kiss it about a hundred times.
I just wanted to say that staying at home for almost exactly three years has been a really special time of my life. I don't know what is in store for me in the future, but it seems unlikely I'll ever be a stay at home mom again. It has been a hard job, but also so enjoyable. I loved that whenever I had a sick kid, there was no worrying about taking off work or all that I had to get done. We just dropped everything, stayed home and cuddled. I love that with Nate I was there to see every single milestone and every little tiny step leading up to each of them. I have loved being Georgia's entire world for 8 months. And as I was typing that sentence, she just pulled up for the very first time! I have loved being completely immersed in my kids for three years and focusing on basically nothing else. It's definitely time for me to go back to work, especially for this particular job, but of course it will be hard for me. I think I'm most worried about Georgia, because she's such a mama's girl. Or maybe Blake and Alisa because she is such a mama's girl. :) Or maybe I'm most worried about me because she's such a mama's girl and I will miss her so. I think Nate will do just fine because he's used to preschool and is willing to stay with anyone as long as they'll play with him. I remember when I first quit my job three years ago, I had big plans for cleaning out closets and having all our meals planned a week in advance and keeping all our photos in scrapbooks. Well, none of that happened. But I have no regrets. When it comes to the things that mattered, I took full advantage of the opportunity.
Today is my first official day of work, at an Easter Egg Hunt for the SBAK. I now have the next big adventure ahead of me, and I'm ready! Well, first I have to shower, then off I go!
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