TGIF!! I am so thankful today is Friday and that I am feeling good today. I am off work & spending the day with my little man and Momma! This week I was a MOODY B-I-O-T-C-H..even on my birthday. I'll give everyone one guess why??? PMS--like can it just stop making me the devil for the love of god?? I am pretty much like the Devil though--BORN 6-6-86--in room #206 at 6:06PM!! LIKE WHOA! That has to have something to do with me being a cray cray Gemini right? Haha! So, anyway, I turned 32 Wednesday, nothing too special. Obviously, Birthdays are fun because you get to eat lots of cake and get presents but other than that at this point I'm just wishing I could get stay in my 30's forever.
Alan and I celebrated as a family by going to Chicago Memorial Day weekend. It was literally a perfect weekend—even with all the crazy stuff that went on--------> We checked into our hotel and not even 30 minutes later we hear a big bang and Ben belt out a loud cry for momma dada….Alan and I just looked at each other—we knew exactly what had happened! Our hearts dropped and I did the classic Baldwin Buckle.. Ben had slammed his little bitty finger in the massive heavy shower door. I was literally shaking and crying so hard I couldn’t even look! We were just so scared and hoping and praying his finger was still attached. Luckily, it was. There was a nice chunk taken out. We put ice on it, cleaned it, and bandaged it all up, gave him Tylenol and he was asleep within minutes. He was due for a nap anyway—so we let him sleep—and we sat on the bed and stared at him and at each other while we talked about how dumb it was of us to not be watching him better and we did the worst thing you can do and googled everything. We weren’t sure whether we should take him and get it checked out..but after he woke up he was fine and so we decided not to. I made my calls to my nurse friends and today his finger is back to normal! I just NEVER want anything to ever happen to my baby boy. I cannot stand seeing him hurt. He is such a tough little guy and I understand these things are going to happen but still…as a parent you can’t stand to see your baby hurt or sick. It just breaks your heart.
So…we continued our day and went to the North Avenue Beach—when we got back to the hotel I got Ben naked and ready to get in the shower with me and he saw the shower door and said..”no, momma, I get in with dada” so I said that’s ok buddy you can take a shower with Daddy…and I sent his naked little tushy out into the hotel room. Ten seconds later I hear NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BEN NOOO—OH MY GOD—MOMMA YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS!
I immediately hop out of the shower---only to find a turd laying on the ottoman of our hotel. Ben was looking out the window and told Alan "poo poo dada --and Ben has NEVER just pooped like that--so Alan said NO Ben..as he is recording outside the window all of this..we won't get our deposit back..and then there it went!! BAHAHAHAHA I mean if you don't think that is funny--lets not be friends. These are the memories I cannot wait to share and tell over and over when Ben gets older!
(sorry swissotel)
hotels are so disgusting
Alan--scrubbed it clean--as he said that's what they get for dropping our bottle of wine. LOL
The bellman had broken our bottle of wine bringing our luggage up to the room. Oops. We have visited Chicago 4 times now in 8 years together and Swissotel was our least favorite hotel so far.
Chicago is so much fun though. It is such a quick little drive from Louisville and there is so much to see and do. It is NOT cheap though! My recommendation is to check flights and see if there are cheap flights and when you get there uber everywhere, ride the train, do whatever you have to do to avoid driving a car or parking a car anywhere. It is SO expensive. Just to park our car in the hotel garage overnight was $70 a night!
Here is a list of our favorite things to do/eat in Chicago:
1. Go to the beach--it is so cool to be on the beach and to look back and see the city skyline!
2.Eat Breakfast at Wildberry
3. Eat a deep dish pizza at Lou Malnati's is a MUST and obvy eat a chicago hot dog at Portillos
4. The skydeck is REALLY COOL--except--expect to wait like 3 hours
5.Lincoln Park Zoo is cool and FREE.
6. Go to Wrigleyville--watch a Cubs game
7. Go to Millennium Park--see the (stupid =) BEAN and take pics like all the other tourist. (if you go in the winter--go ice skating)
8. Go to a free concert at Millennium Park--It is so cute--you can pack your own booze and food and go have a picnic in the park and listen to music!
9. Stay at the Radisson Blu & be sure to visit the rooftop pool :)
10. Walk to Navy Pier--PACK TENNIS SHOES---do not try to look cute--it is a lot of walking!
That is all for today. It is Catholic Church Picnic season--which is one of Alan's favorite things to do. ( I seriously just love him and his happy little self--thank god Ben got his all-time happy demeanor ) Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL weekend.
<3 and good vibes, MB