Saturday we made plans to meet my sister for breakfast at The Guenther House downtown. I kind of winced at the fact that I need to get up early on my day off but did it anyway. Andrew sleeps till about 7:00 or 7:30 on the weekends so YES my much needed sleep time is what I was missing out on. Anywho, we were up and about at 6:15 and out the door by 8:00am. So far so good. We packed up his food, bottles, diapers blankets (since it was a little chilly) and the stroller and off we go. We arrived to Guenther House in record time and if you have never gone, I would totally recommend going especially getting there at 8:00am .. no lines and it just feels soo good. My mother, sister and I went there one time prior when I was pregnant, arriving at 10:00 and had to wait for 45 min! Heavens! Being pregnant and waiting are not a good combo for this lady. Thankfully like I said there were no lines and we whizzed on in. Andrew sits in a highchair now so that helps a whole lot with us going out to eat. Breakfast was amazing and filling.
Since we were downtown already we hit up the Farmers Market at the Pearl Brewery. This is my sisters domain. She is all about this place. I haven't been downtown in I don't know how many years and it all looks so different. My time downtown was usually spent at PolyEsthers, MadDogs or Howl at the Moon. At night. Eons ago! Learning new places to go is awesome .. I mental noted the places we went and sights I saw so I can take Andrew when he gets a little older.
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| My guys at Guenther |
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| Did you ask for the small pepper mill? |
As we were leaving the Market, I asked Clay what time it was and he said "Guess". I don't know about noon? He said 10:30a! Holy Crap! We have done what felt like alot in only that small amount of time and it is still the morning!! I gotta get up early and out of the house more often! To early to go home and Andrew was coming up on his next bottle so we parked it in a parking lot for a few minutes to feed and chill, all the while little man is just taking it all in. He lets us know when he is fussy/tired and we stop everything to let him rest and nap for a while.
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| Passed out |
With Andrew fed and napping we decide to go shop at the Quarry. Another place that I haven't been to in a
while. I forgot how much I loved it there. First place we stopped into was Whole Earth Provisions. This place is pretty cool, a little bit too hippy for my taste but Clay likes to check it out, so in we went. We bee-lined it to the shoes and I found Andrew the cutest little Toms shoes ever!I had to restrain myself from buying him a couple more but seriously, have you ever seen anything cuter than these?!
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| courtesy of Toms shoes |
Clay made his way back to us from checking out the mens section of shoes. I was in the process of getting the shoes on Andrew to show & tell with Clay when out of nowhere, he asked me if I had farted? Uhh, excuse me?! No my dear you are severely wrong! was my response. Like I would have the audacity to "fart" in Whole Earth Provisions! Pfft! But now I smelt it also. We checked our shoes and nothing. The only other thing was staring back at us in the stroller. So I did the mom thing and pick him up and smelt his behind. Nothing. Next check was to open one side of his shorts and diaper to make sure there wasn't anything lurking by peeking in. Well, lets just say I didn't need to peek in. I had just flipped him over to check when I grabbed the inside of the diaper and my index finger caught the mush. Jesus, Mary & Joseph, my index finger is covered in poop!!!!! We were both either stunned or mesmerized by the sight of it .. ahem smell of it. Holy Crap!! Literally! Before any other patrons could see what just happened Clay whipped out a wipey and cleaned up the finger. I, therefore, took Andrew to the restroom and cleaned up much more than the finger. Lucky me! Crisis averted and baby is clean again ... so is the finger. Whew!
We contined on to out window shopping then eating at wonderful P.F. Changs. We got settled in and started ordering. In between ordering I was feeding Andrew his lunch. He was getting pretty tired so we slipped him into his carrier covered it with a sheet to block out the light that was blazing on him and some of the sounds and while he slept, Clay and I had a mini lunch date. It was amazing! We hadn't gone out, just the two of us, in a while and even though we had Andrew with us asleep, it still was amazing.
To cap off the day, we scooted into Old Navy to buy Andrew's Halloween costume which is a secret and then to Babies R Us for some neccesites, I mean toys for Andrew. Ok, seriously how do people walk out of there and not spend over $150?!! It's impossible! Even when you are not trying to, you still do it.
We stopped by the house to let the dogs out, put up leftovers and feed Andrew his bottle. Then a quick change and we were off again to eat dinner with Clay's family and a couple of family friends. These family friends haven't seen Andrew since was in hospital when he was born so thier reaction to his was priceless. Oooh-ing and Ahh-ing all over him. He loves the attention. He sat in his highchair for the second time today ... big time deal .. and was eating chicken and peas for dinner. He kept looking around and sipping on his sippy cup of water. What I failed to observe was that he was drinking more water than eating and he wasn't telling me that he was getting full. After one more spoonful of this chicken and peas, his eyes started to glass over and drool began to pour out of his mouth. I quickly recognized that, see that that is what I do when I know something is not right with my stomach and what went down is about to come right back up. The rest ... well I will let my husband tell it as I went into panic mode and can't remember the details as well as he.
In the words of Clay ...
So we went to BJ's where my son decided he was too full and unloaded 5 gallons of turkey and peas on my chest and crotch. No big deal, until I am walking around the restaurant (smelling amazing) trying to find the bathroom (which apparently is a secret) and my wife is running around like a chicken (sans head). So she gets him cleaned up while I removed my soaked shirt (now down to a wife beater) and he is only wearing a diaper and this is how we make our exit. I know all those people waiting in line are looking at me and Andrew going "who goes out in just a wifebeater and why don't they put some clothes on their kid".
All we needed was movie-ending music to cue the end of our very "filled" day.
After a bath and a good feeding, both boys were passed out by 8:30p. To say we had an eventful day is a big understatement! It was good, bad and ugly but lesson learned. We will most definantly do it again, just hopefully with out the vomit. Till next time.
