July 4th Weekend

We spent Saturday at Sesame Place, and I did get to take advantage of the maternity bathing suit I just bought. Unfortunately, our fun in the water was cut short when baby K got injured. She was running a little too fast and slipped, ending up with a big bruise and scratch on her knee. We went to the first aid office where the nurse cleaned the wound with some peroxide, then applied some Neosporin and band aid on her boo-boo. Baby K was just obediently sitting there, no expression on her face. I said to M afterwards that had it been us caring for her wound, she'd be kicking and screaming, refusing to let us do anything. Baby K also got an ice pack for her bruise, which she wouldn't let go until it completely melted and all that was left was a puddle of water that ended up soaking M's shirt.

There were a series of nasty thunder and lightning that night. M and I woke up to the rumbling sound and couldn't go back to the sleep. We were commenting on how surprised we were that the noise hadn't woken baby K up when just then, we heard a pair of tiny footsteps scurrying into our bedroom. Needless to say, baby K stayed with us for the rest of the night. She went back to sleep fairly quickly and didn't get woken up again, but unfortunately I couldn't say the same for myself. Baby K kept kicking my stomach (I'm sure her baby sibling didn't appreciate that very much) and by the time she got up in the morning, her foot had landed on my face at least three times. I made M get up for solo daddy duty that morning while I tried to get some extra zzz's.

Sunday was fairly uneventful; we couldn't do much due to the torrential downpours that kept coming. We went to church in the morning and shopping in the late afternoon to pick up food for our barbecue the next day, but other than that, it was a good day to stay indoors and help baby K brush up on her ABCs.

M's mom, brother, and sister came over for a barbecue on Monday. As usual, we had too much food and not enough people to eat it. We didn't even get a chance to grill any of the burgers we bought (guess we'll be having another barbecue very soon). In the late afternoon, the S family came over and baby K got a chance to play with KS. It was good to see the kids interact together. I only wish we can do it more often.