Saturday in Galveston was the occasion of the baby's first time ever to the beach! She was so good that day at the beach condo during my board retreat. We were there all day from about 9-2, tucked into this tiny 1-bedroom condo and it was a tight squeeze indeed, just like I told them it would be. But I'd brought along plenty of baby provisions, as I always do since I can't stand a bored child, and she had fun watching movies up on the top bunk of these built-into-the-wall bunk beds. But after awhile she wanted to be with me, so she joined us in the living room and sat in my lap and played quietly and snacked on all kinds of goodies along with the rest of us. No lie, we ate all weekend long! At the retreat we had breakfast tacos, fruit, muffins, juice, and then they fired up the crockpot for chips and queso. Besides that there was chocolate and candy all over the place! Then when we broke at 2 we went to lunch at a local seafood joint! I had the shrimp scampi and the bread pudding. It was all totally unnecessary! :-)
After lunch we bade adieu to everyone. They gave us the little pails the candy had been in and told me how good the baby was! Then we went to the beach where the baby immediately started digging up seashells. It was just a shame it was too cold to frolic in the water (although Galveston is nasty). I think next time we take her down there we'll take her to Moody Gardens instead. Anyway, we had fun for awhile on the beach until it was just too cold and windy to be out there too much longer.
Then that night we had the engagement party at J. Fi's parent's house. The baby stayed with her Auntie R. The party was a'ight. We were very late due to S's not being able to leave work in time and we just barely got there before the caterers removed the food! There were a lot of drunk yuppies there. S spoke cars and motorcycles with a couple of them so at least he got in some good conversation.
Sunday once again I had to get the baby up way early to come with me to the health fair that I had to work. She had had a bad night--sometimes she gets those growing pains in her legs and feet and she had kept S up until 3am crying and fussing. She woke up in the car on the way down to the health fair and started crying and screaming again and I honestly didn't know what to do. I tried not to panic but she was carrying on so much I thought I might have to turn the car around and just go home. I even tested her by saying that if her feet hurt so much we couldn't go to the zoo later with L. and her son Rhett, so did she still want to go play with them? She said no, so I knew she was hurting pretty bad. She kept asking for S. I finally figured out that I should just drive with one hand and massage her feet with the other. That seemed to help a little bit, though she still kept crying. Finally when we got to the health fair about 30 min. later she seemed to calm down. I distracted her with the leftover candy that was still in the car and she didn't seem to be in any pain anymore.
I carried her inside and got her set up with the laptop so she could watch movies next to me while I worked. They had doughnuts and I let her get some. Then she was fine! After awhile since we were at a church, some kids came into the activity center and she wanted to go up on stage and play with them. I took a break and we went up onstage and we all danced, even me! Then I told her I had to go back to work and she stayed and danced and ran around with all the other kids. Guess the feet problem was solved!!! Later the church people served us lunch and I let her eat Doritos and a cookie since she didn't want a sandwich. (I hate letting her eat crap like that but it's hard to eat healthy when you're on the road! Anyway, a little crap eaten now and then ain't gonna kill her. I'm too hard on myself sometimes.)
Right before we left we got a visit from my friend and fellow deputy, C. and his wife! I had called them in advance since we were at their church, and had told them to come and say hi to me. The baby has even been to their house one time when it was C.'s birthday, but I wasn't sure she remembered them. They also have a bad cat who actually chased the baby around a chair at one point! I made C. be in my health fair-photo op:
At 1pm it was time to pack it up and head for the zoo! (First we made a quick stop to pick up some KFC and see my grandfather.) L. and her little boy Rhett met us at the zoo--along with L.'s new man! Much fun ensued.Unfortunately, she was bad when we were leaving the zoo b/c she didn't want to walk to the car after I had piggybacked her all the way to the front gate. She lay down on the pavement and I just walked away and waited for her to catch up. I had to have a serious talking to her. I definitely let her know I was pissed and I was not going to put up with any crap after all the fun things I let her do!!! I threatened her little butt with never coming back to the zoo if she pulls that crap again and made her apologize to me! When we got home I made S reiterate our intolerance to her bullshit. He is really good about backing me up--as he needs to be!--and is now cooperating with me FINALLY on stopping all her wanting to be carried everywhere, which is also a bunch of crap! She had another bad sleep on Sunday night, this time apparently with an earache. Once again I let S handle it, as I had to work yesterday AND get up early to take my mom to the Dr.! But she slept through the entire night last night, so that's good. I had the children's Motrin at the ready though, just in case.
Right now they should be at storytime at the Library with Tito J., then we'll all meet for lunch in a bit. Today's my long day of 2 jobs, and S will take her back tonight. I did get a call from our lawyer yesterday who updated me, saying we should be able to get that hearing set for us to get emergency temporary custody for the end of May. Also, that October already filled up for trials so ours is now set for November 5, period, the end! Plus the whore did pay our atty.'s fees like she was supposed to, although she was $98 short so our lawyer will have to work on collecting that. She said it came in via cashier's check so I'm sure there went the whore's tax refund! Ha ha!
So yeah, I'm exhausted. But, as always, in a good way.
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