The weekend recap

Picture it . . . a Friday afternoon in a small Oklahoma town . . . I woke up Friday convinced that my lady bug had an ear infection. Her nose is runny, she's not been sleeping well, etc., so I called the doctor to make an appointment. All I know is that she does NOT have an ear infection, or any other kind of infection for that matter. Good news, of course, but I'm gonna need an explanation for the sleeping issues and runny nose and general crankiness of the last few days. We did find out that she weighs 16 lbs! I can't believe she's gained almost 2 lbs in the last 2 months. Everyone says she's so tiny, but to me she's quite the chunky monkey--the little man was only about a pound heavier (and a couple inches shorter!) than she is at 8 months when he turned one. Anyway, I survived, even almost enjoyed, dragging both kids out and getting them home safely all by myself. Again, not a huge accomplishment for many, but HUGE for me!

On Saturday we went to our first Guatemalan Adoption fiesta! We met some really great Oklahoma families, tons of beautiful "Guatlings", one amazing Romanian beauty, and two Ethiopian princesses. We weren't sure how long we would stay--it was dependant on the little man's behavior-- but since he had an audience and lots of new stuff to see and play with, we ended up being there for 5 hours! It was so much fun. The critterboy was quite the entertainer once he came out of his shell. Here a few pics of the day. Please note, swimming was involved, but magically and thankfully, the camera stayed inside. (Well, our camera did anyway--I'm sure there are some horribly unflattering pictures of me floating around out there somewhere!)

All the kids -- my little princesa is the itty bitty one trying to escape in the front row

Moms & kids--1st half of the group

Moms & kids--2nd half of group

All the moms & kids

It was great to meet so many fellow bloggers and forum friends in real life. I had no idea if I would recognize all the great ladies whose blogs I follow, but I did! We look forward to keeping in touch with many of those who attended, as several live just a few miles from us. Small world . . . Thanks again for hosting, Jana and Rod--you guys are wonderful hosts!

Then Sunday, as the previous post mentioned, was our 12th anniversary. My parents came over to wrangle the kiddos while we went to an early dinner at The Cheesecake Factory. The food was wonderful and it was nice to be just the two of us for a couple of hours. Weird, but nice. It's amazing how fast we start to miss those wild critters we have! Oh, and another Matthewism: "Happy Anna-grocery!" He told us both "Happy Anna-grocery" about a hundred times yesterday. No matter how many times we said "versary", he still said "grocery"!! So stinkin' cute. I love these little ones of mine!

Other than being completely sleep deprived (if you know me well, you know that's not a good thing--I'm one crabby chick when I'm tired and no one is exempt from my grumpy mood!) we had a great weekend.

A while back I promised a video clip of the hip swivels and of my sweet baby girl trying to crawl. Not much to see, but cute nonetheless. Baby girl in action is even cuter than still pics :) Enjoy!