mid august

things that happened these last few days 

and what i learned from them:

SICK & SNORTING

• After begging Brandon to pull over and hold his hand, Grayson threw up all over the truck repeatedly on a 3-hr drive home from out of town, which was only the beginning of some fun viral bug.
• We are officially parents of a pre-schooler.
• Maybe if it starts with a bang, the winter cold/flu season won't be too rough?  Maybe??
• He tearfully called the traumatic event of puking "snorting". 
• Like dreams, it is hard to explain throwing up to a new human.

the sheet was for germs,
the bathrobe was for popsicle juice

• Brandon came home from a man-date to be informed he was sleeping upstairs with the sick boy. Gray woke up every half hour (mostly because he'd soaked his sheets and pillows with sweat and drool each time), but there were times throughout the night I could hear him being made to giggle infectiously despite his discomfort.
• B. is such a good dad
• Although you don't want to be too slow with his dinner, Jack is so so so so so chill.
• God blessed us with an "easy" baby and we couldn't be more grateful in these times of toddlerdom!

READY TO RELAX

• After Gray started finally feeling better one night and we'd gotten both boys to bed and were enjoying an episode of Modern Family, we heard a really eerie sound. The spookiest, weirdest noise either of us has ever heard in fact. In Brandon's words, it sounded like a child, but as we agreed with wide eyes... "not one of ours!!" 
• The cat makes sounds like a little ghost girl shouting "hello" when she's about to yack throughout three rooms of the house. 
• Before I could grab cleaning supplies, the dog was on it, taking care of the mess himself.
• I might have more room in my heart for Cole after all. Anyone that can help me keep things clean around here deserves my respect!
• Brandon ran outside gagging at the sight of the dog eating the cat puke, and then also a second time later when I stepped in a tiny spot Cole and I had both missed as I was rushing to get the darn dog out of the house (because he spontaneously decided to pee on a rug).
• A little weak stomachedness from the hubby could never tarnish the deep respect I have for him as a husband, father, Soldier, son and friend... 
• However, it is o-v-e-r for the dog.  

FIRST LAUGH

• Jack really laughed for the first time.  It was in the car as Gray messed with him in the backseat.
• Yay for brothers!

"just don't leave him alone with me please!
 he keeps trying to pick me up..."

RAIN OR SHINE

• My family's entry of Gray "busking" downtown won four concert tickets to see Old Crow Medicine Show!
• My mom is turning into how crazy-crafty-silly my grandmom was (and still is!) when I was a kid - albeit her own version. 
• Love it.

we won!!! ready to go rock now.

• Gray jammed out with his guitar in his stroller in the rain to The Lumineers
• The show does go on!

"can you hear me?"

• I splurged on the large bag of kettle corn.
• A surprising number of people in our family apparently don't care for kettle corn.

jack's first concert. :) and
no one in this pic eats kettle corn.

• It started to rain more steadily at the concert and we weren't sitting under the tent. Brandon was running to the car to get umbrellas while I did my best to shield Jack when a stranger appeared with an umbrella and insisted we borrow it.
• People are nice.
• A girl near us at the concert threw up (a LOT. I have never ever ever been around more human and animal puke in such a short period of time.) and then abandoned the nasty area with her friends. They just moved to a fresh location to watch the concert, with no one attempting to clean up the disgusting mess.
• People are gross.
• If there's no dog around to do it for you, it is really always classier to clean up after yourself.  Or at least put something near it so no one walking by slips in it.
• Ew.
• I left the concert early to get the boys to bed but may have received a great picture of my husband doing that strange dance they call "flat footing"...
• You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy.
• Thank goodness. :)