Memorial Day recap

Colby had a great weekend in the mountains visiting with all of his family and cousins. He loved all of the attention and especially loved the ongoing game of "Peep Eye" with Miller.

However, the first 24 hours had a few minor snags. The first evening, Colby swallowed a 10 inch piece of nylon dental floss. We weren't too concerned at first, until we hopped on the internet and read about children having dental floss surgically removed because it caused harm to their intestines by wrapping around something. (I'll be collecting my M.O.T.Y award later, as I am the one who gave him the dental floss. He sometimes tries to imitate flossing but has never actually put it in his mouth....oops) We placed 3 calls to our pediatrician's office and they never called us back, so 2 hours later, we called a family friend. He basically told us not to worry because it would make it's way through his system. However, he did tell us to look for it in the next 24-48 hours. That was fun.

We also learned that a bedroom containing both our bed and Colby's crib is a bad idea. Colby had a 3:30am wakeup time the first night, so we put him in our bed. Big mistake. He played in our bed for the next 4 hours and never did go back to sleep. (He woke up again the next night at 2 am for more play time, and Lee and I ended up sleeping downstairs on the couch. We cut the vacation short so as not to go through it again on the 3rd night.)

The next morning, Colby started out the day by falling on his face and busting his lip open. All I could think is that bad luck comes in 3's right? It seems that was the case, because the rest of the weekend was great!

Here are a few highlights...

Colby and mom (30 weeks pregnant)


We've tried to tell him that there's a baby on the way, but I'm pretty sure he just doesn't get it.


We tried to put Colby in the pool, but he was not having any of it. Any time we got him close to the edge, he would say "All done! All done!". (He was having flashbacks of swim lessons with daddy, which he did not enjoy.) He did enjoy playing in this stream of water, but that was the extent of it.


On Memorial Day, our town had a carnival complete with rides, bands, vendors, food, etc. Colby absolutely loved all the rides and said "more more" after each one.

Someone sure is enjoying the horsey ride.



Colby was a brave little guy and went on a couple rides by himself. This wasn't the original plan, but Lee tried to ride one with him and they kicked him off. We didn't have the heart to pull Colby off. In hindsight, I don't think we'd do this again because we were both nervous he'd try to escape...but he loved it.