Baby blowouts and waiting for patio blocks to arrive...

This morning I did a little traveling to deliver a head of cabbage to Mom at work in Bay City. She had left it with us after we dropped her off in the B and N parking lot. The trip down to see Grandma W was nice. The weather was the coolest of the summer. People still drove like they had a hot iron pressed to their rumps, but I was mored concerned with the enduring effects of the McDonald's coffee. As long as I get a coffee in the morning, I'm a pretty pleasant person. Anyway, we spent about 3 hrs at Grandma's. It looks like she has to consider battling leukemia again since some of her recent tests indicate a drop in some of her levels. This is basically what I was told: "A drop in her levels". Grandma was in good spirits and enjoyed talking the entire time.

Today, like all days since the birth of our daughter, we rise around 6:30 a.m. (there is no such thing as summer vacation when you are a parent---at least not the summer vac. you remember! It still can be a very rewarding time though). Gina has decided to make me the official poop master this summer. Sometimes she'll treat her mother to a sloppy deposit, but for the most part she will give me one small deposit---then total eruption in the next diaper. Today's blowout came right as I was finishing a turkey sandwich. Sort of prevents me from overeating I suppose.

One of the few trips we made in the morning was to Menards to see if they had my patio block, sand and gravel in. They told me it would be there approx. two days ago. Today they said it was not in yet. The associate said she was going to shoot an e-mail out to see when it was coming in next. Really agressive tracking, eh? I will give this another day or so before getting on the horn again. While I was there I ordered a playscape complete with swings, slides, climbing wall and rings. I finally saw the playscape from a child's perspective. My previous idea had me playing with my kids all over the playscape. This current model is more kid size for most of the equipment. I hope we are able to put it to good use and doesn't sit in the yard like a seldom used pop-up trailer/RV/boat.

My daughter wakes from her afternoon nap...