Lifers:

Well, besides a wedding, funeral, flubug, happy fun baby, sad ornery baby, and an upcoming BREAK, not much has happened. Well, that sounds like a lot, but you add work into the mix, along with laundry, milk sippy cups, and lots of oatmeal smears, and it tends to just blend into day to day life, you forget to write about it in your blog! Ok, Ill start from the beginning.

Cali Chey was married in Montana on Sept 6. With a short time to plan, we were in a frenzy to cancel a whole Saturday at work, load up a Grandma, a Mom and an Aunt Janette, my Hadley, four hundred fruit snacks, Blues Clues and I. One flat tire outside of Idaho Falls, resulting in Collector Mom taking home some road side souvenirs. She was able to collect one disgusting rat or vermet skull, a pretty rock, and a roughly wakened mad granddaughter who was napping peacefully, only for just a minute. Anyway, we made it in time, and the bride was BEAUTIFUL. It was a wonderful little ceremony, and of course, the babies stole the show...
The Bride and Groom...(wow look at that beautiful hair, wonder who did it in only 45 late minutes!)Hadley Jo and Fayth, who is a 5th generation Baby. She is my grandmas great-great grand baby. She wasn't havin my social butterfly, Hadley all over her too much. I think Hadley is only 8 weeks older.



Then when we arrived home, we joined our family in services to mourn and celebrate the life of my Great-Aunt Margie. She passed just before we left for Montana, and was on our minds the whole trip. It was hard to see her closest family ache for her, for two reasons. One being that is that you want to just help them, and take away their heart ache. The other being that it brought back some painful, but bittersweet, and also wonderful memories of my own grandpas passing, funeral, and wonderful family we had around during that time.

So we have had 5 days of puking baby, and two days of very bad "other flu" baby. She was a champ through most of it, only one day spent sad and laying on my chest all day. And Mom, Kari and Sue were also champs, when Hadley ralfed all over us in moms car on the way to Swiss Days in Midway! Well, Kari got a bit sick, probably from wearing Hadleys breakfast for most of the day. Sorry, Kar.

Brent and I are sneaking away for maybe our only vacation this year. We are starting off Saturday thru Monday in Telluride, Colorado. There we are going to the Blues and Brews festival, and Etta James is performing that day! I know all of one song she sings, but it happens to be my FAVORITE!!Then we head down to Durango to visit one of my very best friends, Lori, and also to ride the train there. Hadley Jo happens to LOVE choo-choos at the moment. I am very excited, getting out some warmer clothes, and am wishing for some beautiful fall colors along the way...I keep playing

this

over and over for Hadley to get her excited! Or me excited. However you look at it.

Oh! And Im on the lookout for Funny Halloween Costumes. This was my bug last year:But I can't find anything to top this! So suggestions.....?

Ok, I had to come back and add two things:
*Last night Hadley went to bed so nicely, practically diving for her crib. I walked out and shut the door and within 2 minutes she was screaming like I have NEVER hear before. I walked to her door, usually she calms down fast, but this just kept getting louder. So I opened her door to find her light back on, but her leg caught in her crib between two railings. OMG. I tried to pry the two rails apart, then yelled for brent to come here. Funny thing, he told me no. He was on the phone with work, listening to an important message. I yelled so very dramatically "HER LEG IS STUCK IN THE CRIB I NEED YOU NOWWW!" which is funny, now, to think about it, because he threw his work phone down (it took us a while to find), ran in and kept telling me "Don't panic" as he very clearly panicked. She was stuck just above her chubby knee, and before I almost called the fire department, or got out our chainsaw, we were able to turn her on her side, and brent pushed her leg while I tried to push the rails apart. Needless to say, she got to come out and hold mommy while she drank more milk, whimpered, and watched Dragon Tails.
*I love that when she has something she isn't supposed to have, she goes right for her closet and hides. All I have to do is listen for her in her closet, and I know. I go right to her and she tries to roll onto her belly, hiding it, and says "NO, mommy." It's funny, this age. She is naughty, but so easy to catch.
*Ok, one more. We took her to the fair the other night and she had her first taste, that I know of, of cotton candy. First I gave it to her, and she looked at it like "what am i supposed to do with this?" Finally, she put some on her tongue,and immediately pulled it out, eyes wide. I think it actually scared her. She spent the next few minutes sucking on it, the spitting it out once it turned to sugar balls. Finally she learned the joy of cotton candy, and the little blue sticky monster munched away, even swallowing it towards the end.

I know, exciting life we have. All centered around this fun, fun baby. Hope you weren't too bored....