Saturday – first trip out!

We got William out of the house for the first time and he was thrilled. We went and ate at the Texas Roadhouse. William was pointing at everything and chatting in the van. He sat in his stroller instead of an high chair and was quite happy. They played ‘Jimmy Crack Corn’ and several of the servers danced in the aisle. Greg took MaryVic to watch although she was too shy to join in.

We went to Costco afterwards and grabbed a few things. Greg and I took turns carrying William some to shift his position around. He fell asleep in the stroller. Woke up when we put him the car and that was all the nap he took. Tried to get him and MaryVic to take a quiet time twice later in the day but no dice.

We took a nice walk down to the pond and fed the geese. William rode in the wagon again and enjoyed it. Greg posted pictures at our photo web site.

Greg had pointed out during lunch that the doctor said not to give William too much motrin since some studies had shown it inhibits bone growth. Mary Alice gave him some motrin around 10:30 and he didn’t get any more pain killers until bed time. He got really fussy later in the day.

I gave him the prescription pain killer at sponge bath time. He spat part of it out. I don’t know if it was lack of nap or that we missed a dose of pain killer but he screamed and fussed at bedtime. He kept yelling ‘stuck!’. I felt so bad for him. We wound up with him on his tummy on my chest when he finally went to sleep. Greg had to come and put me up on the bed. He tried to take W to the crib but he woke up screaming again. Greg got him arranged mostly next to me and so we slept. I think part of the reason he was waking was he was trying to turn over in his sleep and unable to :(

Saturday morning

We are up and doing fine. Since the debacle of Wednesday night, William has gotten motrin during the day and the pain medicine at night. He has been able to sleep much better.

Poppa came up last night and both kids were thrilled to see him. William promptly let him know that he was ‘stuck’. He brought William two new toys and a little gift for Mary from friends in Arab. MaryVic ‘helped’ William open them. He is getting a bit possessive though and if he could hear her playing with the new baby boom box toy, he’d start fussing.

William and Baby boom boxWilliam and the jungle book

All is well, I was over my bug on Saturday. MaryVic is a little needy due to all the attention William has to have right now. Greg has been working on the light switches at the house and they are ‘automated’ to a degree. We can change them on and off from the computer. I have to say that the motion detector in the garage is pretty cool. It automatically turns the lights on when you walk in there.

What’s really funny about the new switches is that if the lights do go off, the first word out of the kids’ mouths is ‘Daddeee!” If he is around, William will start going ‘dark, dark, dark…’ until they are turned back on.

MaryVic has dance class then we’ll try taking William out to lunch and Costco for his first outing. We wanted to try going out to the library yesterday but it rained all day.

We’re trying to decide about MaryVic going to daycare while I’m home with William. I would just hate for her to come home with a bug and us get sick since flu season is still going on. We may try a day or two a week though and take a friends suggestion to take her straight to bath when she gets home.

FYI, there have never been any bon-bons in the house.