Action Packed Week!

This has been an eventful week with the start of our week beginning with the night out at the FH Gala - entertainment provided by Michael Buble. It was quite fun as always to get dressed up and head off to the resort - this year the auction was not as "lively" due to the economic slump, so there were some good deals to be had but we kept our wallets in our pockets even in the face of such temptation! The night was a little nerve-wracking as about 30 minutes before we left, Amy went in search of Zachary (the house had become suspiciously quiet...bad news as any parent knows) and she walked into his bedroom to discover that he had pulled his top dresser drawer out all of the way and somehow pulled his body up into the drawer (he basically do a pull-up as he could stand on a low chair to reach the edge of the drawer, but there was nothing from that point to climb up on - apparently the child has strong arms!). After managing to heft himself up into the drawer, he then stood UP in the extended drawer so that he could play with the humidifier on top of his dresser. While having an instant heart attack, Amy managed to get him out of the drawer and down while a stern lecture immediately began. It was a testament to the seriously solid piece of furniture that it didn't fall over on top of Zachary - we'd have been going to the ER instead of the gala! Where, oh where, did Mr. Safety-man go?? We want him back! :) (This feat was not documented with a camera as time was of the essence, and we don't want to do a live re-enactment so that he doesn't get any more ideas!)

Later in the week, our excitement began one night about 45 minutes after Zachary went to bed - he had been quite (presumably fast asleep) when all of a sudden he started to cry. That being unusual (the silence and then crying....not so unusual for him to fuss immediately when we leave the room if he doesn't want to go to sleep), so Amy went in to check on him - as she opened the door, she was met with projectile vomit flying towards her as she stood in the doorway. GREAT. That was a 2 parent clean-up job (clean-up on aisle 2 please! :) as it was all over Zachary, the crib, the walls, the floor etc. Once we cleaned him all up, back into bed he went (no fever, no other symptoms and he frankly was in a great mood saying that he wanted to play, play!!!). Sadly, this repeated itself twice more that night about once an hour until it finally seemed to pass. Poor kid - it is never fun to be sick. It seemed to just be a short bug as he was right as rain the next day.

Two weeks ago was Kaleb's first hair "trim" - definitely not enough hair to actually call it a hair cut but it was time to even up his hair - he had really long hair on the top (ha ha, it was starting to look like an old man's comb-over!), so Grandma B came over with her magic scissors and evened everything up. Kaleb was definitely not an easy customer like Zachary's first hair-trim - he kept wiggling and moving his head around frantically trying to see what was going on up there - so the adults were laughing most of the time trying to contain his head!

The weather has cooled down here and we're enjoying the lovely Fall weather. Tonight is the FH Thanksgiving concert, so Gram-Z and Karis have gone to enjoy the music. We're looking forward to Papa Dennis coming this week to join us for a short vacation, and Sunday we're having a photographer come to the house to catch Kaleb's over-due 6 month pictures (yes, we know that we're late, but better late than never!). Zachary's been having a fun time with Gram-Z.

Phrase of the week: "Mommy, I dripped" - after the projectile vomiting episode - drippin' is code word for "spit-up, puke, vomit, drool" - any short of liquid that comes out of Kaleb or Zachary's mouth is referred to by Zachary as "drippin'" - we guess that it's better to call it drippin' than anything else! :)