the weekend

So we had a really fun weekend! After finally getting over the trauma of the shots we were really able to enjoy the weekend. The day of his shots, i spoke too soon on my blog. When he woke up from sleeping, he SCREAMED at every second that his leg was even remotely being touched. He ended up with a quarter size bruise on his right thigh and he insisted on nursing on the hour EVERY hour until about 11:30 p.m. Mommy cried, baby cried, daddy cried... we were all just exhausted Friday night! Saturday rolled around and the resilience of babies continues to amaze us! Saturday morning, you would have never know anything was wrong the day before! I worked, TOny worked and we went to a friends house afterwards and watched the HORRIFIC auburn game. We left there mentally drained from watching all of that and went home and all went straight to bed. Sunday morning we woke up at the CRACK of dawn and drove to Birmingham for Dane's (our nephew's) 1st birthday!!! What a great time we had up there with the family and with him! He was soooooo good and just really enjoyed the cake AND icecream! We stopped in Millbrook and saw Howard and Dana on the way home, then headed back south. Boy was that an adventure! Poor Chip had been in a car all day and was just truly exhausted! We stopped and nursed him while we got gas right outside of montgomery and then had to stop 7 minutes down the road, take chip out, nurse him again, and walk outside of the car at TEN OCLOCK pm on the side of 231... S-C-A-R-Y!!! While we were doing this, a trooper pulled up and made sure all was ok and was so kind and looped along the medians of the highway 'til we pulled off. We got him in his seat, settled down, and i ended up in the back with him, which i usually don't do, but i sat there and we "talked" for a little bit and then we both ended up falling asleep while TOny drove the rest of the way home. Boy has home not been so nice to get to in a LOOOONG time and boy did we learn our lesson on just how much an infant can handle.We survived it all though and its all a part of this fabulous and exciting journey we're on called parenthood. needless to say, we wouldn't trade any of it for the world! One last thing... Chip is starting to really develop his back and neck muscles and try a LOT harder to pick up his head during tummy time! it wont be long... wow how time flies and how fast they grow.