nemo's big adventure: adventures

this week has been full of them. plenty. glad things have worked out as well as they have. today was the last carousel ride of the summer. we went every other friday all summer long. we only missed once. marley will be sad when she realizes it is over. she asks me every week: carousel? at least we have dance class to look forward to. she did great this week. i did not go into the room with her and she did not mind at all. i watched the class on a video moniter out in the waiting room. it was so much fun to be able to watch her interact with other girls about her age. she likes to stand back and observe everything very seriously before she joins in. like she has to wrap her head around it first. but once she gets it she is all about it. so i think dance class will be a big hit. warning: poop talk. so davis had to have soy formula while i was in the hospital and while we were waiting for some meds to leave my system. soy b/c of the no dairy thing. good thing my husband is a thinking man. i would have gotten regular and then we would of had a hot mess. anyway. so she was on it for about 24 hours total. not too much. but then we began to play the waiting game. was poor davis ever going to poop again? formula is not breast milk, so the body digests it differently. there is very little waste in breast milk. anyway, the poopslosion finally happened during the middle of dance class. of course. total code brown. and mom and i are talking about it and laughing as we change her, in the changing room, and there is this high school girl sitting there listening to us. it struck me then how weird it must all be to her. oh well. there will come a time in her life, in all probability, when her life revolves in some way around poop. and it will be funny to her too. rambling, i am. back to the carousel ride. after we were done we went to get in my mom's car to leave and it wouldn't start. no idea what was wrong. but thank god for my mom's friends who were home on friday night and didn't mind coming to resuce us! donna and blair were sooooo nice and helpful. we had to do the car seat tango and donna drove me and the girls home and blair stayed with my mom till the tow truck got there and then gave her a ride home. normally a broken down car isn't that big a deal , but stranded with two babies, a girl post surgery, and 100 + degree weather can quickly turn into a nightmare. but it didn't. we had brought water with us and my mom was prepared with a quilt. you should always have a quilt in the car. it's my version of a towel. if it's cold it will keep you warm. if it is sweat dripping down your back hot, spread it in the non exisitent grass and let your baby stare at the sky. i also chopped off all my hair this week. i FINALLY had enough to donate to locks of love. i have a before photo, but that's it so far. my hair looks a hot mess in the following pictures. but, as with finding a deoderant that stands up to 100+ degree weather, i am unable to make my hair look good when i am dripping with sweat. so don't judge the new do by these photos. wait for it. as always i am blessed beyond what i could possibly deserve and am learning new ways to appreciate it every day. thank you for another wonderful ordinary day.