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What a rough week...

This has been a pretty pathetic week in the Palmer house so far. Jack and Sam have both been sick with a nasty stomach bug, and I do mean nasty. My poor little guy went through two days of 20+ diaper changes due to this yucko bug and unfortunately no diaper in the world can hold it all in. Some how we made it a year with a puppy in this house and never had a stain on the carpet, now there are suspicous faint yellowish spots here and there, EVERYWHERE! Sam has told me that he can't see them, but I just know that the gross stuff is just lurking in there waiting to pop up again at any moment. It's awful. What I have learned in the past few days is that my son could puke,pee and poo on me all at the same time and I wouldn't freak out or get upset about the mess. It's really amazing how priorties change once you have a kid. Sam has had just as rough a go with this stuff and I don't know how I've managed not to get it. Well I do know, constant prayer!!

Despite being sick Jack has been as active as ever, maybe even more so. He has finally perfect crawling!! That being said, I've left the room for minutes at a time and come back to find him in new places. He gets so very excited about exploring new rooms or even corners of the living room he's not seen from his level before.

And the best thing about both of my boys being sick at the same time? It's really inspired some great daddy/baby bonding time:

Sam has really gone above and beyond to earn that Daddy title too. I think he has probably changed more diapers, cleaned up more poo and cuddled that little guy more than I have over the past few days, being just as sick on top of all that. Also he let me sleep in two days in a row after particularly rough nights with Jack. How awesome!!!

Also Jack is very excite about two new things:

His very first life jacket! "I'm ready to get on that boat Papa G!!"

And this fun new trick! "I can take my drink everywhere now!"

Lunch Time!!

This is what happens when Jack takes over lunch...

Sunny day...pushing those clouds away

Today we got smothered in sunscreen and headed into the backyard for some crazy adventures. Well really just to do some yard work. Sam and I decided to try and get a good start on the whole grass situation today and thought it would be fun to lay a quilt out for Jack to play on. This worked for probably 5-10 minutes, until Jack looked around and realized his newest fascination was ALL around him. That's right, he has discovered the wonder that is dirt and dried up weeds. After that I would have to run back and forth between him and my project, getting nothing done. I did that until he actually started to roll down the slight incline that he was on, not to worry though Jack thought this was hilarious. I decided that he just needed to get it out of his system and we set out playing in the dirt and whatever else we could find. He actually did pretty good about not putting things in his mouth, which surprised me because he is really into finger foods right now. So we ended up up playing all the while Sam worked his booty off. I did reward him with a picnic though! Another fun day!!

Fun Day!!

Since the weather was so nice today we spent the day in Mammoth Springs with some friends today. Where we were greeted by a friendly honking goose, that scared all the kids with the exception of Jack. He gave his normal "What the crap mom?!" facial expression. Really I think it scared Finley (who is almost 2) because it lunged at her and was taller than her. You can't see her in these pictures because she was hiding in the car.

After the trauma of the goose incident we started to walk around the spring hoping to find the hidden cache. It should be noted that we went in the complete wrong direction as guided by the men in the group. We did spot some pretty cool otters along the way though. Jack was fascinated by this weird little thing splashing in the water. Georgia thought it was so cute to see it eat and "clean" its food in the water first.

The museum was not very enthralling so we skipped it and went to the playground instead. Super fun! Jack experienced the teeter totter for the first time and LOVED it. I am also the champion of the balance competition. That does not say very much for my competitors does it...

After playing for a while we went of in search of the still hidden geocache, again being led in the wrong direction by the men. After much debate between Sam and Alex about which way the thing could possibly be, Tressa and I gave them the kids, took the GPS devices and went trekking through the woods to find the blasted thing. Guess what! We were right!! On the way however we spotted gross blood stained animals bones, a dead mouse that was completely flattened and a dead otter. We were fearful for our lives at that point so headed back to find our families. The men never saw this cache....

After the Springs we crossed the state line to hit up the scandalous Dairy Queen and then ventured back to Hardy to visit the historic downtown district. Which was neat for me because I remember going there when we were kids with Grandma and I got to take my son. dorky I know, but I don't think I will get to take him to a lot of places that I remember from childhood.

When we got home, we were so excited to have a giant package on our front porch. It was full of diapers and wipes that are now going to be delivered to my doorstep upon demand. Great stuff right? Jack was impressed with the big box that it came in, it's really the first box he has ever cared to play with.

Also this week: Jack beat up Sam, touched his first fish and flirted with pretty girls at play group(which we actually hosted for the first time! crazy!). Unfortunately I did not get a picture of the fish, it was priceless.



Can you see his teeth?

Just some other random cute pictures:

I realize I am being completely lazy with this blog by not actually telling you anything about the pictures, but at least you are getting pictures!