Our Weekend

Wow! We had a busy weekend. Saturday we went to church and this made the third unsuccessful attempt at taking Hayden to Sunday school. The first weekend he lasted about thirty minutes, last weekend about twenty minutes and this weekend not even twenty minutes. As we are participating in worship, anxiously watching the monitor for our child's number, wondering how long it will be this time before we are summoned to pick him up. Z6C pops up on the monitor and off I go to collect my child. I can hear his wails before I even enter the nursery. I then see his red, swollen, tear streaked face. His shirt is soaked with tears. The nice lady says, "We tried everything but we just couldn't get him to stop crying. Try again next weekend." She hands me my child and his belongings. I then take him to the cry room where we try to receive God's message on a TV screen with Hayden happily drinking milk and eating goldfish. I wonder if we will get past this or if every Saturday night we will be watching the service from a TV with our son sitting on our lap contently snacking away.
After church we went to Cracker Barrel where we enjoyed the good food and watching Hayden devour biscuits. We learned next time he eats the green beans and chicken before we even let him see the biscuits. As soon as he saw the biscuits he started squealing and clapping his hands. He refused to eat anything except the biscuit. Sunday we celebrated Grammy's 58th birthday! I made mini brownie bites that were yummy. We even put a candle in the mini treat and all sang Happy Birthday! We had everyone over for dinner and presents. We got her a canvas picture from our professional pictures on the beach this summer. She seemed to really like it. Before we celebrated her birthday we went to Hayden's cousin, Kayla's, first birthday party. He had fun but is starting to have separation anxiety so as long as Jeff, myself, Nana Dede or Grandpa was sitting nearby he was okay. Walk too many feet away and he was all tears. We rushed home from her party to cook for my family. It was an enjoyable day celebrating birthdays with both families.

(I'll be sure to post some photos from Kayla's party when I get them. I left my camera home and so I'm waiting for some to be emailed to me.)