Continuing Our Saga of Water Adventures

I ventured down the Gateway to find a dress for my sister's wedding. My father was very generous and had given me a giftcard, otherwise I would not have made the journey to Mecca. I love the Gateway, I always have, especially in High School where all I wore was name brand clothes. Now as a fat and frumpy 24 year old broke mother, I felt like I stood out and didn't belong. Strange how only 5 years ago I thought I was cool and fit in. Now I am the one being gawked at for wearing Ross capris, a pair of falling apart Roxy flipflops, an out of style Abercrombie shirt with ketchup, snot and lemonade spilled on it while pushing a stroller. My, I have changed. P.S. Don't go to the Gateway to find a formal dress. NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING! Major disappointment. But, I did give in despite the frustration of not finding a dress and let Little Buddy play in the fountain. Being the awesome mom I am, I only brought one diaper. So happened that when we got to the fountain he was stinky. So I couldn't just let him run in the water with the crap diaper on, and I couldn't put the clean diaper on him because then what was he going to ride home in??? Solution: Let him go commando. I discretely changed him in the stroller and let him run a muck in the water. We left when his shorts got so heavy that he was mooning the crowd.

Sometimes people throw the word "friend" around a lot when the person really isn't that close to them. This is an exception. One of my awesome FRIENDs that I work with, Tami, invited Brody and me over for a water play date. Tami is amazing. I love working with her. She is one of those CNAs that when they are assigned to your patients you breathe a sigh of relief because you know that things will get done. She is funny, has an awesome sense of humor, makes everything from scratch (which I hate her for) and has an infectious personality to boot. I love being around her. Our boys are about 4 months apart and so we thought it right to introduce them. Brody didn't know what to think when we walked around the back of the house and saw this monstrocity of a contraption. He quickly warmed up and loved it. Loved that Tami let him play with the hose. Loved going down the slide. Loved being wet.