Mommy, may I please have that bottle I see sitting
on the dresser behind you??? Please, please, please!



These pictures were take after we spent an evening at church with "Bubba" screaming bloody murder most of the evening. We went there for a special dinner, and Bubba went into the nursery with all the other kids of parents attending the dinner. Apparently he was on overload with all the kids running around (they were older kids too) and I got up from the table to go use the restroom and heard my son screaming! The poor guy ... he was just tired and overstimulated and not in his normal routine. Fortunately, Rose was there. Rose coordinates the helpers in the nursery at church and LOVES babies. She loves Michael and knows that he is usually all smiles and very playful. But boy did she get an earful tonight! We got him calmed down for a little bit so I could go in and enjoy the yummy flan that was for dessert. Did you know that El Pollo Loco makes flan? It was one of the better flans I have tasted! Who would've thought? Maybe it's just our local El Pollo Loco ... but go try it! Oh, and as soon as we put Bubba in his carseat to come home, he was playful and happy. We played our "momma .... Bubba" game the whole way home. He says Momma, I say Bubba and we laugh together. Then he says Momma again and I say Bubba and then we laugh again. Do that for 10 minutes and you're sure to change your frazzled mood into a happy mood!

Back to my last posting .... Tony and I had a GREAT time going out to dinner alone. We didn't have reservations, so we showed up at the restaurant at 5:15. We were seated immediately and the place was empty. By 5:30, the place was packed and people were waiting for seats. It was nice to get in early on that one! We forgot what it was like BK (before kid) when we'd just go cruise Target and meander through the aisles checking the clearance stations. So that's what we did ... meandered. So a big THANK YOU to Robyn and kids for blessing us with a night out! We didn't even worry about a thing here at home!

We're hoping to make it to the zoo later this week, so maybe we'll have something fun to post! Last time we went, there was some monkey screaming/singing. We found the monkey's "home" and Michael sat there watching him and then started singing back to him. It was kinda cute. Now that he's walking everywhere (which he wasn't when we first went to the zoo) he might see more things ... like the duck poop on the lawn, the leaf in the middle of the walkway, the piece of gum stuck under the bench .... lots of fun stuff!