Fathers Day Weekend

Whew! We had quite a weekend! On Saturday we drove 3 hours to my mom's family's reunion. We stayed the day and then came back that night. Scout was very well-behaved. She's getting over her stranger anxiety finally. :-) Dylan was a good girl, too. A lot of the cousins and aunts and uncles had never met either of the girls and it was the first time for anyone but my parents to meet Dylan. Here are some of the highlights:

Great-grandma Rie with Dylan


Grandma Susan taking a turn holding Miss D


Scout with Great-grandma


My Uncles John and Raymond (mom's brothers)


Patriarchs (My Papa Earl and his brother)


Sarah and Emily


Cousins in the water


Sweet hugs


39 family members and one friend taking the pic


So then yesterday, our friends called and asked if we wanted to go to Wet Zone with them. Dads got in free. :-) It was our first time to go. Scout loved it! Even though we only stayed a couple of hours, took shade breaks, and reapplied sunscreen several times she still got a little pink. Dylan and I mostly sat under the umbrella, but we did go into the kiddie pool twice for about 10 minutes each time. Here are the pics:

Taking a juice break


Dylan can sleep anywhere!


Hanging with Daddy


Jake, Melissa, and Noa


Dylan didn't appreciate the wet hat


Okay... it's not so bad!


A few extras...

deep in thought


caught her giving Atilla her snack


Thanks for looking!

Sweet sisters

Scout was trying to make Dylan stop crying...

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Poor Scout

We went to the doc this morning (thought apt was this afternoon-thank goodness I put it in my phone's calendar so I wouldn't forget!) to collect urine for another culture. Hoping the Suprax is working and her urine is clean after the UTI. The cath itself was awful again. I felt so horrible for my poor little baby! Now this fun part... when they see babies this little with UTIs they like to run more tests to be sure they don't have Vesicoureteral Reflux... basically a condition which causes some of her urine to travel backwards and can cause kidney damage. If you're interested you can read more about it here:

[url]http://www.urologychannel.com/pediatric/vur.shtml[/url]

Anyway, they have to do a renal sonogram and a VCUG (they inject dye and watch the 'flow'). Neither of which sound like much fun. They will be doing them on the 26th and since I will be back at work and can't afford to miss any days, Michael gets to take her. I don't know who I feel more sorry for... Miss Scout b/c she has to go through the procedure or Michael b/c he has to hold her. Anyway, keep us in your T&P... and now the pics... the doctor took forever to come in and Scout got bored so she played with mommy's sunglasses. I'm trying to keep my camera in the diaper bag to capture funny moments like these...















and afterward we went to McDonalds since she was such a brave girl... she got her very first happy meal! :lol:

taking straw out of milk...


better way to drink it


that's right, my kid is trying to eat 3 nuggets at once


special treat to share with mommy!




throwing in a few of Dylan just cuz I can!

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Our weekend...

Sheesh! It's been quite a weekend! On Saturday we went to the zoo with my sister (and the new double stroller!) and took lots of pictures. If you want to see the whole album, here's a link

[url]http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f25/mscstephens/zoo%205%209%2009/[/url]

Here are a couple of my favorites

This was in the children's part of the zoo - a little play area where we stopped first




walking with Daddy and Aunt Sarah... it's gonna happen soon!


What's that?


Sweet girl


Lookin' at kangaroos... 'hop, hop, hop'


Otters!


Playing with Daddy at lunch


Cotton candy...
What is this wonderful stuff?


Are you really letting me eat this?


Oh yeah, Dylan came too


She was quite bored by the whole ordeal


Giraffe... "Wow!"


Elephant... "Wow! Wow! Wow!"


Duck... "Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack..." (she's still quacking)


Riding the lizard


Riding the turtle


Sweetheart


Then we came home and tried to take a nap. Michael changed her diaper right before we put her down and left her pants off because she was hot. After about 10 minutes, we heard crying. I was going to ignore it and see if she would sleep, but my sister decided to go up there. Glad she did. (warning, gross part of the story here)

My sis came back downstairs and said there was poop everywhere. I thought maybe Scout had pooped out the side of her diaper. We're about to change to size 4s because the 3s just don't hold it all anymore. I got up there and her diaper was on the floor. Clean and bone dry. Her crib was covered in poo. Apparently she took her diaper off, pooped, peed, and proceeded to finger paint with her new brown paint. It was everywhere. Crib, wall, mobile, her tummy, her legs... and yes, her mouth. When I came in, she was offering me a bite. So, that took a while to clean up.

Gross part over. Today is Mothers Day and we celebrated with Melissa and Jacob and Noa. We all went out to eat at Olive Garden where there was a huge line even though it was 2:30 in the afternoon. There were so many mommies there! We left there and went to BRU and Target. Then we all came back to our house where we are all still sitting. Well, Scout's in bed. She's wiped out!

Dylan's been awake more during the day and I'm hoping it translates to more sleep at night. I've got one more week until I go back to work and it'd be nice if she was only getting up once a night like Scout was at this point... right now she gets up 3 times, so I'm not holding my breath.

Oh yeah, I'm going to have to take some pictures of Scout playing in the big box that the double stroller arrived in (thanks again, Mish!). She and Noa have been playing in there!

If you made it this far, I'm impressed!