Sunday, February 7, 2010

can a noodle up the nose cause brain damage?!

One day this past week, we were having a dish with noodles in it. We cut up Mercer's food so he can scoop it up and eat it. A noodle fell off of his fork so he picked it up. He looked at it then - in an instant - stuck it up his nose!!! WHY?! We tried to get it out - which only pushed it in further. he sneezed a couple of times... but it didn't come out. later that night - while giving him a bath... i saw a noodle sitting on his upper lip. WHEW!

We had a good weekend. we had lots of socializing, culture, and fun:

Todd and I had a "real" date Saturday night. We decided somewhat spur-of-the-moment to get tickets to the Buddy Guy & BB King show at the Fox Theater. We were in the 2nd-to-last row in the theater -- the nosebleed seats, but it still sounded really good. (And - we got to appreciate ALL of the beautiful architecture in the building on our scenic tour to the top top top.) It's an amazing structure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(Atlanta,_Georgia)
We wanted to go because we love blues... we've seen both of these performers before... and figured it may be the last time we get the opportunity to see BB King. He's 84 - and - quite frankly didn't play that much. He talked about his age. He talked about women. His band played more music than he did. Buddy Guy - who opened for BB - did a fantastic job, however, and we'd love to see him again. He's a great performer!


Sunday, we made valentine's day cards for grandparents and great grandparents - which are in the mail & on their way. Mercer helped glue hearts on the papers and he drew all over them. Then we went to see some drawings (done by Leonardo Davinci) at the High Museum / met friends there. Todd and I didn't get to see the show together, however. He went to look at it with his guy-friends while I hung out with Mercer in the children's area. I got to check it out with my girl-friends while Todd watched the little guy. (He looks like a little boy here instead of a toddler.) This children's area kept his attention for HOURS. there are different stations for the kids to explore - if he got bored with something, he could move onto the next thing and the next and the next. There were big blocks that he could stack, climb on, and shimmy under. There were stations for "painting" with markers. Magnetic things. Shape sorting. Puppets. Things to hide behind. And lots of room to run around.


Finally, we went to a neighbors to watch the Superbowl. Mercer was the only kid there and entertained everyone - especially during half-time. He enjoyed the Who's performance as he would dance around and clap. He also would laugh at some of the commercials because everyone else was laughing. I had to drag him away from there to put him to bed.

We always admired some friends of ours who wanted to make their children a part of their lives -- instead of completely altering their lives around the things that were kid-centric. It was an exhausting weekend (in a good way)... but we feel like we accomplished that parenting style this past weekend. We had a great weekend (wish we could "live it up" like that more often). It appears that Mercer had a great weekend as well.

One final photo: This is his "cheese" face.

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