A Not-So-Fun First

Austin threw up in public for the first time today. We were at the library, storytime had just finished, he had asked to be picked up so I was holding him and looking at a shelf of books. Seemed like a perfectly normal morning. Then cough, cough...yuck. Did I mention he had blueberries for breakfast? There will probably be purple stains on the library carpet forever to remind me of this morning. Did I also mention that we walked to the library today, so we got to walk home smelling a little pungent? Thank goodness Austin and I were both wearing layers so we could take off the worst parts of our clothing, which we carried home in a plastic bag provided by our totally wonderful children's librarian JoAnn.

This happens to every mom at some point, right?

Smiles

Austin is quite a smiley kid but it is pretty hard to get a smiley picture. Here are a few successes from this week.

Visiting Gran and Pops

Austin and I headed down to Texas last week to visit his Gran and Pops. As you can imagine Austin had a GREAT time! Gran and Pops quickly became his two favorite people--Austin ran to meet my FIL at the door every night when he came home from work just like he meets Zach at home, and he cried if my MIL so much as left the room he was in.

Gran and Pops picked out his Halloween costume and took him trick-or-treating.

Austin got to try a Three Musketeers. (By the way, how is it that a toddler instinctively knows that a lumpy, brown unfamiliar food is good and snatches it up but turns up his nose at an unfamiliar green vegetable?)

Pops built an awesome house for Austin to play in.

The weather was beautiful and we spent lots of time outdoors.

Bill and Becky's neighbors have some ducks and Austin liked to watch them. We fed them one day. I don't think Austin really "got it" but he liked throwing bread through the fence.


Austin has become a climber. Doesn't he look awfully pleased with himself to be up there?