Friday Adventure Day

Well, this last Friday we had a big adventure day. We didn't have one big adventure, but we had constant adventures for the whole big day.

First, I woke the children up "early" and we went to the museum first thing. We bought a membership last month: we tried to go to the zoo and buy a membership but the parking lot was so packed we went to the museum instead. So Friday, we used our membership to get in free and we also used it to get reduced-price tickets to the planetarium show. We usually go in the Space Odyssey exhibit first, but for some reason it was all packed, so we went in Gems and Minerals first. When we came out of Gems and Minerals to go to our planetarium show, I realized why Space Odyssey was so packed: the dang historical last space shuttle launch. We were right there, and they had a whole big thing with tv cameras and special exhibits and tv crews, and we were next door in Gems and Minerals. DANG IT!!! Oh well.

Anyway, we wandered onto the roof, where we discovered they had a sun telescope set up. We each took a turn looking in and saw sunspots AND solar flares. The solar flares were SUPER COOL.

When we returned home, super tired, from that, Seth was also arriving home from his half-day continuing education CPA class. He took the afternoon off and we all went to the town pool. They give the children a free pass at the end of swim lessons, that's good for one adult and one child to swim so we used those. The thing was, just as we left our house, it was sunny. Half-way to the pool, the sky was dark and lightning was flashing. I thought we'd have to ditch our plans, but instead genius Seth takes us to the indoor town pool. Genius!

I actually don't like swimming that much, plus I'm still all baby-fat, so I wasn't having a very fun time until I took a spin on the twisty waterslide. It is AWESOME!! I didn't do any other swimming; I just went around and around, time after time on the water slide.

Then when we got home from that, Eric and Jules were invited to sleep over at the cousins' house. We took them over there, and the three little boys were all so tuckered out from our big day that they fell asleep instantly and Seth and I had a lovely quiet date night.

I HAD A BABY!

This is old news for some of you. After a threatened miscarriage, a hard recovery from cerclage surgery, and many difficult months trying to be a mother to four children while physically disabled by pregnancy, our son was finally born.

Mark Bryant Leech came on May 10th, at 2:11 pm, after 10 hours of weird labor. I think if I had walked around and been upright for longer, labor wouldn't have been so weird. But I test positive for group B strep and needed IV antibiotics for the baby before delivery, so I went in as early as possible to the hospital. Anyway, baby Mark threatened to need a c-section with his little reduced heart rate, but we ended up not needing one, THANK GOODNESS.

I recovered quickly from the delivery and Mark started out as an absolute living doll of a baby. He's a little gassy now, but he's still pretty dang good.