gi-gi's birthday

the fam took a trip to burnsville to celebrate granny's birthday....this would be gi-gi to donovan
(get it...great granny). donovan and i took off early friday afternoon after much coordination to ensure smooth travels...this was our first trip alone. and of course we arrived in b'ville after 30 minutes of out of control screaming. the good news is that we made it...and donovan recovered soon after seeing gram.

i am going to tell this only for the good of other mothers who go unappreciated and can relate to the tale, but not because i am proud of it or get the warm fuzzies when thinking of it......it is my awareness to the cold hard facts of parenting. so here we go.....donovan is not yet reaching out for people, but we can tell he is working toward it, and will often say with his eyes and a little arm movement that he wants to come to you. friday night mama and i were getting dinner ready to take to granny's house and were running late. donovan began getting fussy and i was trying to calm him down to pack up and go to granny's. the crying increased until he was fully out of control. i of course check to see if he needs a diaper change? needs to burp? is he bleeding? and then we passed by gram......and he LUNGED out of my arms into hers and fully settled. and so of course knowing that it would be ridiculous that after all i had done to make my child happy all day it was a coincidence that he LUNGED out of my arms. so after a few minutes i took him back so mama could get a head start to granny's and i could wait for dan to come home and ride with donovan and myself. immediately meltdown ensued until of course gram took him back...and then he was fine. luckily dan came in from a grueling afternoon of golf and saved donovan from his mother......seriously??? donovan and dan snuggled right in to a relaxing evening of tv. so there you have it...heartbreak. and let it be known that i do not want to hear anything from anyone unless it is a story of your child telling you that they hate you or have only been calmed by a stranger....otherwise we will not speak of this again.

moving on to saturday.......it was just our luck that burnsville was having their ole' timey day which was full of tractors, gospel singin', pie eatin' and cloggin'. donovan was of course a prince, and we got some great pictures of him. that night we all had granny's 94th birthday dinner and donovan was able to meet his great-great aunt betty.

dan was up bright and early sunday morning to head out to the panther's game. donovan and i were able to have a relaxing sunday showing off at church and then having lunch with donovan's auntie nicole. it was a rainy sunday full of lounging. monday came and was also rainy so donovan and i decided to stay until tuesday and just head back to charlotte with gram. the trip back went much smoother with gram in the back to entertain. auntie lisa was kind enough to come into charlotte to hang out and take gram back to burnsville.

we are having company come next week and so, much like they usually do, mama and lisa slaved away cooking, cleaning and taking care of donovan to prepare for the company. and so yet again i will look like mother, wife and inn of the year for our house guests....unless donovan LUNGES out of my arms.