Mother's Day.

Our first Mother's Day went by with a roller coaster of events. None of which were what we expected and none of which I would ask for a re-do on. It is what it is.
Charles awoke at 1 am. not to wish me a happy Mother's day but b/c he had a tummy ache. He was crying in his sleep. I rubbed his belly for about 15 min and he quieted down. 2 a.m he awoke screaming, I gave him some baby gas-ex (Mylinex) and he quieted down in about 5 min. 3a.m more screaming, more gas-ex, 4a.m. I brought him to be with me and every hour as he awoke like clockwork, I gave him an dose 1/2 asleep myself and in the dark. Poor baby.

We went to church at 8:30 and he was in his usual good spirits.
Steve and I got home and prepared our Mother's Day bbq. (It was DELICIOUS!) We were having 2 families over. Charles was his usual wonderful self.
I made THIS for desert...which is what I WANTED to do. I used to love baking but haven't done much of it in the past few years.

Charles then took his nap and awoke, a little early, you guessed it...out of sorts and pulling his ear a little. He was super fussy. We will have to do a picture re-do as he took all of our attention most of the day. When I was holding him he wanted daddy, when daddy was holding him he wanted mommy. Here's what he looked like most of the day.

Then for the big event. We were all taking turns standing guard as he quietly played with the water in the pool. Something I do often during the nice days we have here. Charles was tossing something into the pool and having moments of content, which we were all grateful for. Then wouldn't you know it. The ONE moment Steve and I BOTH were standing guard, dispatching our parental duties diligently...Steve's twin sister sent a text message to me on his phone. I stood to see it, so did Charles, who lost his balance and plopped head first AND backward right into the pool! No sooner did his head splash into the water did Steve grab his foot with the same hand he was holding the cell phone. So we are still with happy healthy baby but sans cell phone. Charles by the way is completely unscathed, he had a good cry and seemed to snap out of his fussiness for the rest of the day. We joked that we should have doused him a good one at the beginning and maybe he would have snapped out of it earlier.