Blog about Thursday afternoon

My grandmother, Inez, fell on Thursday and broke her leg. She had surgery Friday afternoon and had a plate and pins put in to hold the bones back in place... she will definitely have to do some physical therapy to get to walking again on it. It's so hard to imagine, as we just saw her up & about. Oh I feel so bad that she had to go through that -- but those of you reading, please pass along good vibes / prayers / thoughts so that she heals quickly. I am glad we saw her earlier this week, but I wish we could be there to cheer her up. She really enjoyed rocking Mercer and singing to him. It was so sweet! Grandma - when you read this... know Mercer is having sweet dreams of those moments & he wishes you a speedy recovery!

Probably about the same time as that happened, I was up the street at a neighbor's house for a play date. Mercer can't really play with anyone yet -- it was an excuse, really, to hang out with some of the moms on the street and to let another one of our neighbors get her baby fix for the day. Here are a few pics of that. I took this one of Mercer and Brody on the blanket (for comparison, really, to my friend Cindy's son - Trevor from the April 18th blog entry). I think they're around the same age and around the same size?! Maybe Trevor is a little bit longer? Both Brody and Trevor drool a lot. Maybe it's that age? Mercer doesn't do it so much -- but he's starting to blow bubbles.

Here's another cutie that Mercer may have a crush on at some point... Mary Peyton. Her twin brother, Luke, will be keeping the boys away, I'm sure!

It seems that there are a TON of babies on the street. There were 2 other houses on our street with blue ribbons/ "it's a boy" balloons on their door when we came home from Colorado. I'm planning to bake something and just go knock on their doors / meet them. Crazy if we have 3 little boys all born in February here! There was just a baby girl born last week on our street and another couple who's expecting next month. Suppose we should change the name of our street to Baby Lane?

ok - one more shot of baby Brody.... had to get a pic of all of the leg chub and him eating his toes. So scrumptious!