Oh What a Weekend!

What an exciting weekend we've had around here....I'm not even sure where to begin! Let me back up to Friday and start from there...

My mom and I went to the Keith Urban concert and it was awesome :-) Thanks to my friend Carlo, we were 7 rows from the front of the stage, on the floor, and close enough to touch him. Unfortunately, there were tons of other people wanting to do the same so we weren't able to do much touching. But we got a great concert! I wasn't too thrilled about going - headache, tired - but in the end (or maybe 1/3 of the way through it) I was so happy I went. We had a fantastic time.

Saturday during my morning hugs with Brennan it dawned on me that he didn't have a pull-up on. When I asked about, David informed he had decided to let him wear big bog underwear to bed and he had a very successful night - he made it all night without peeing :-) I am sooooo proud of him, but sad at the same time - this officially marks the end of any "babyhood" with him. He was so proud of himself and since then all nights have been successful. This was pretty ironic since just last week Karen, Krissy and i were talking about him being in pull-ups still and i was certain he'd be in them for quite some time, but boy was I wrong! I'm sure he'll have an accident at some time, but that's ok - I am happy to be rid of pullups :-)

That night we hired a new babysitter and it worked out really well. David, Kerry, Michael and I got in a good round of golf (I actually shot a 120!!!) and the weather was amazing for an August afternoon. Heather did a good job with them and they realled liked her. The only problem was Brennan - he wasn't feeling well and had fallen asleep on the couch before 8 p.m. - this is simply unheard of with him or any of our kids - so we knew he wasn't feeling well. When we came in, he heard Alyssa say "mommmmeeee's home" and barely opened his eyes. I picked him up, sat him on my lap to talk to him (he was on fire - fever) and within a minute he had puked all over my nice, clean WHITE short and blue shirt.....pizza to boot. Heather was of course thankful we had gotten home when we did and I just stunk! I changed, David (bless his heart) got my shorts clean and we headed off to bed....until about 3 a.m. when Brennan woke up again. Gave him more medicine (again he was on fire) and not 5 minutes later all the medicine was back up again - yes, more vomiting. Carpet, ladder to his bed, him...another big mess. So on our floor he went (not trying to be mean to him, but didn't want our bed to be next!!! ha ha) - I made him a pallet on the floor and at 3:30 a.m. he's watching Scooby Doo, burning up and just plain pitiful :-( He did sleep the rest of the night and was doing better this morning....

so that brings us to today (Sunday). I was a little leary, but we ended up going down to Fredericksburg in hopes of getting new shoes for all the kids for school. Alyssa - no worries - her size is easy to find. Brennan & McKenna on the other hand - oh my goodness - talk about FRUSTRATION! I went in Kohls, Penney's, Sears, Foot Locker, Champs, The Shoe Dept. and Toys R Us in hopes of finding shoes for them....I finally, finally found a decent pair of TRUS, but Brennan came home empty-handed. No such luck! I admit - I'm very picky about their shoes - but he's in a size 10 which means he hasn't moved up to the "boys" shoes - he's still in "toddlers" (same for McKenna) and this makes it tough. Unless you like Spiderman or light-up shoes (which I don't - AT ALL!) - then it's hard to find anything. So to the web I will go to solve that problem!

The kids were awesome all day - including Brennan who clearly doesn't feel well. No more stomach stuff - he ate a great lunch and held it down. But he has a cold, on/off fever and some strange rash that will be investigated tomorrow at the pediatrician's office for sure. It started on his legs, next his face, then forehead, arms and stomach...and I have no clue what it is or where it came from. I'll update on that after we see the doc. During lunch at TGIFriday's, an elderly couple complimented us on having such well-behaved children - it felt sooooo good to hear that and I was so incredibly proud of my kids today. They were very well-behaved and did such a good job as we weaved our way through a gazillion stores. We treated them to a toy at TRUS at the end and Pizza Hut for dinner....which was disastrous. Not b/c of them, but b/c the service was slow, the place was a crazy mess and our food was disgusting. David swears he's never going back there and I agree! Other than that, the day was a success and we had a great time together.

Oh, oh - how could i forget the last piece of "big" news....on our way home McKenna told me her tooth was loose. Well this has been going on for a few weeks so I didn't think much of it - until she started talking really funny and drooling ... blood! She pulled and pushed on it until...out it came :-) Her 2nd lost tooth!!! I put my hand back there to get it from her and yes, as you can imagine, she dropped it on the floor...and we have yet to find it :-( SO Daddy to the rescue, he told her we'd write a note to the tooth fairy and ask her to find the tooth to which McKenna replied "yea, cuz she's so sparkly and bright so she can find it better than you?!" Oh the way a child's mind works - so cute! So that's what i did - wrote a note to the tooth fairy and it's under her pillow waiting for it to be replaced by the money. They're growing up so fast - only 6 months left as 6 year olds and if i blink too many times those 6 months will be over. It's so fun to watch them grow and it's fun having little shoppers now...but at the same time, it's sad how fast it goes. No more pullups, another lost tooth....oh what a weekend!