The List

By the time I graduated high school, I had created a long list of restaurants that I could no longer visit and enjoy. The reason I created such a list was because I had either become sick at this restaurant or shortly after dining there (oh, were you eating your morning Cheerios? Sorry to discuss such things so early in the morning). The Lord blessed me with a sensitive stomach and an incredibly sensitive palate, so I will completely throw the towel in on some foods or eating establishments if they have caused stomach distress (after month six of pregnancy, I bid farewell to lasagna for forever).

Isaac is starting his own list. His list is retail shops that he has thrown-up in while shopping. The first store on his list is The Children's Place, after our unfortunate incident in the Fall. The second store on his list: Kohls. Saturday the family was happily shopping at Kohl's when Isaac became a bit fussy. This is very unusual for him so I took him out of the stroller and carried him around a bit as he helped me search for the perfect bargain. About ten seconds after I placed Isaac back into his stroller, he threw-up all over himself. We stripped him down in the parking lot and headed for home with a diaper-clad baby in tow.

At first I felt like the Kohl's incident was a fluke. Perhaps Isaac had eaten too much at lunch or something had not agreed with his little tummy. This idea was quickly squashed when Isaac began to throw-up more once we were back home. Poor thing would be sick and then would fall asleep sitting up. This did cause Tobe and me to giggle, however we refrained from snapping a picture due to what would be in the foreground besides a sleeping baby. At one point, Tobe and I were lying on either side of Isaac as he rested on a make-shift palate (didn't want to clean throw-up out of the slats on his crib) in the floor of his room. Isaac would reach over and pat my face and then reach over and pat Tobe's face. By 5:00pm Isaac seemed fine and we think the cause of the sickness was excess drainage from teething. Yesterday, Isaac was his normal self and was very intent on putting every possible toy he could find into his Fisher Price shape-sorter. At one point he even attempted to put his rather large gumball machine into his much smaller shape-sorter. Funny boy.

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Besides running extra loads of laundry and scrubbing unmentionable things off the kitchen floor on Saturday, the Phillips' family enjoyed a relaxing weekend. Tobe and I were able to go to dinner at the Gaylord Texan and frolic at Main Street Days, minus the baby. Although I love the two festivals Grapevine holds each year, I often grow weary by Sunday of festival weekend of the excess traffic and the cars lining the streets in our neighborhood. It was a great festival again this year, but I was not sad this morning as we walked past city workers cleaning up the remains of this three day event. Last night Tobe and I watched the movie Shopgirl, based on Steve Martin's novella. I found it to be a great flick--if you liked Lost in Translation, then you will like this movie (if you haven't seen Lost in Translation--go rent it immediately!).

Hope everyone had a nice, relaxing weekend as we gear up for a new week!