We Needed Today

Plain and simple…today was good.  We so needed a good day.  We needed some rest and some chill time.  Emotions have been running so high.  Hearts are down trodden.  Sleep has been little.  We’ve just been kind of down, but today…today was our day plus Solomon’s gotcha day.

Donuts and chocolate milk per Solomon’s request for breakfast.  Hallelujah!  I cannot believe it’s been 7 years since they placed this sweet baby in our arms.  Our lives have been richer ever since.

Despite our next move of the day being to the dentist office for me to get a crown I would not let that bring us down.  The kids got to hang with grandparents while I totally stressed out alone in the dentist waiting area.  I do not dentist well.  I’m a mess.  I haven’t always been until my Great Terrible Dental Saga of 2014/2015…yes the same saga extended into two different years.  Then I got a new dentist, but the anxiety still looms.  I sat in the waiting area and found this picture:

Then I cried.  Alone.  In my dentist’s lobby.  I was pretty much a mess.  That’s baby Solomon on his actual Gotcha Day…like our forever moment.  It kills me.  Then they called me back for my appointment.  I’ve never had laughing gas before, but I actually asked to be fully sedated…we compromised and I got the gas.  After some time on the gas…which is top notch by the way…like can I just take this stuff with me…do you have a portable kind you loan out…maybe on rollers…I digress…my dentist came in and asked what we were celebrating today and I flat out started to cry.  I AM A MESS YOU GUYS.  I told her how awesome Solomon is and told her what we were celebrating and how I was just going down memory lane in the lobby with all my dental stress and so of course I cried.  Long story short:  I’m a mess.  I hate going to the dentist, but laughing gas makes the world a better, less dental anxiety kind of place.  Solomon rocks.  The end.

From there I picked the kids up leaving behind our youngest behind because ummmmmm, she’s 2, can’t swim and a tad difficult at the wave pool…by a tad difficult I mean sometimes she makes me cry 🙂 and Solomon asked if we could wave pool for his day.  Nene and Big Daddy gladly kept her for the afternoon.

Sidenote:  I found out later that Big Daddy brought everyone Oreo McFlurries at like 9 am because #solomonsgotchaday  Grandparents are fun!!!!  End sidenote.

Solomon got to pick lunch.  He chose Sonic because Solomon loves hot dogs and can’t ever get enough hot dogs.  Example:  The other day we had hot dogs for dinner.  The following morning after Sol woke up I asked him what he wanted to fix for breakfast.  He responded with “Do we have any more hotdogs?”  NO YOU CANNOT EAT HOT DOGS FOR BREAKFAST.  He’s been jonesen every since, but today he got his hot dog fix.

Wave Country was the bomb…as always, but today there was hardly anyone there.  This picture was around 3 hours after opening.

Josh asked Sol at dinner how he felt about us renting out the wave pool for his gotcha day just so he could have the place to himself 🙂  It was so empty and awesome.  We swam and jumped in the deep end and did the slides over and over and over again.  I never feared once that someone was drowning today.  And I didn’t lose anyone either.  Fist bump.

Why yes they are sitting on the sprayers to make it look like they are peeing.  Proud mom moment.

We stayed all afternoon and finally headed out to go pick up our littlest.  Then home just in time for dinner…white chicken chili…on a sweltering July day…per Solomon’s request.  He also asked for homemade Africa brownies and homemade mint Oreo ice-cream.  Josh Kelley has used his ice-cream maker 3 times since July 4th.  We don’t play.

Then we headed out to Amon’s tee ball game.  YOU GUYS!!!!  Amon + tee ball = the cutest thing in all the lands.  Plus lots of our favorite people showed up to cheer Amon on and love on Solomon.  It was the best night with friends and family.

Then bedtime and MLB All-Star game.  And maybe some more ice-cream.

Let me recap…it was THE BEST day…just what we needed.

Solomon Kelley we can’t thank God enough for you.  We are truly ridiculously blessed to have you as our son.  We’re madly in love with you and always will be!!!!

Happy Tuesday!

1 Comment

  1. Happy (belated) Gotcha Day Sol! 🙂
    That baby picture is ridiculously adorable. I don’t blame you for being a mess over him. 🙂

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