Eventful Days

The weekend was crazy awesome!

Saturday

My mom, dad, sister, and grandma all came to visit! We went to Heroes for lunch and hung out at the apartment while Cael played like crazy. He has been walking so much and he loves it! My mom and grandma headed over to my great aunt's house (in Lee's Summit) and my dad and Natalie stuck around for a little longer. My dad fixed my dryer! The vent flap wasn't closing properly so a sparrow family got in there and built a nest. Then a starling took over so every morning, we would hear them fight, starting at 4 am. I was not happy. When my dad took the hose and everything out of the wall, we found that the nest was actually inside the dryer. That explained why there was a burning smell every time I turned the dryer on lol but we got it all out and my dad put a new vent in the wall (after cutting out part of the drywall to make it fit... the building had settled since the first vent was put in). Now I can use the dryer and hear the birds smack into the vent :)

My dad and Natalie left after a while and Cael and I went to Wal Mart and Parkers to get the grocery shopping done. The whole way to and from the store, he kept saying "guh-guh" and I could only assume it was for "Grandma" or "Grandpa" lol When we got to Parkers, I let Cael hold on to my grocery list, so he pointed to it and said, very forcefully, "Da da da guh guh guh dis" telling me what to get next. It was hilarious! He was yelling the whole way through the store and had all the cashiers and customers laughing.

Sunday

I went with the Vater ladies (my grandma's sisters and their female children and grandchildren) to the New Theatre in Overland Park. Apparently this is something they do every year, around this time. I had no idea until my mom said my grandma was wondering if I wanted to go. It was really cool! The theater is a dinner theater so we had an amazing buffet lunch before the show started. I had marinated chicken in white wine sauce, sauteed and steamed veggies, polenta, and garlic mashed potatoes. It was amazing!

The show we saw was "The Odd Couple" starring George Wendt and Tim Kazurinsky and it was pretty funny. At intermission, the restaurant serves dessert so my mom and I shared a tasty creme brulee. I'm glad we did share it because the dishes was pretty big for something so sweet and rich.

When I got back, Cael was so excited to see me :)

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Cael has been having a terrible time with his eczema, especially on his ankle. At 2 am Monday morning, he woke up screaming and scratching, so I put his lotions and creams on the site and we laid on the futon so I could hold his legs to keep him from scratching. At 5 am he tossed and turned enough to fall off the futon. It was a rough morning, but he slept good last night :) All the way from 8 pm to 10 am. Not even joking. I was so happy, especially because last night I started to get sick with something that's been going around the 2's room at daycare (nausea, stomach pain, the runs, etc.) I'm feeling better now but I still have that crampy pain in my abdomen... Hopefully it will be gone by tomorrow morning though.