Rollercoaster Weekend...

So with five days off, I was really looking forward to a nice, relaxing weekend with lots of football. Well, I got that...until Monday. Thursday and Friday were lots of fun. Abs and I went toy shopping at Once Upon a Child and Babies R Us to see if we could find some items that weren't for infants. Got lots of good deals and spent the rest of the day playing at home. On Friday, we were a little housebound since we had the plumber and the cleaning lady coming by so we watched some DVR and played around the house. Saturday was family day. We stuck Abby in the stroller and walked up to the shopping center at Preston and Forest to have breakfast at Corner Bakery and to grab some "frames" (the code word for "Christi wants to go check out all of the Halloween decorations they have out"). After our purchases (including a couple of Halloween items of course), we decided to check out Gymboree. Having never set foot in the place, we had no idea what to expect. Apparently, they have classes for different age groups so we decided to attend a free class. I think the lady at the front desk who signed us up for the 6-10 month old class severely underestimated my child. She ran circles around the other babies in there although she acted like she had a lot of fun. She's not the most social baby at this point as her social interaction usually only consists of hair pulling and pushing the other babies down if they are sitting up, but we're working on it. Saturday night, we had dinner with JB's family at Trulucks in uptown and then went home to enjoy some Mad Men episodes. On Sunday, we did our weekly grocery store trip and then headed to Nick and Kelly to watch Tech's disappointing performance against SMU.

On Monday, we ran some errands and then attempted to put Abby's swing up out front. In the midst of that, JB doubled over in pain and we ended up spending the rest of the afternoon in the emergency room where they thought he had a kidney issue and sent us to a specialist. On Tuesday, we went to the specialist who recommended that he do some more testing at the hospital which we did that afternoon. Of course, the results are inconclusive. All we know is that it is not appendix, gall bladder or kidney related and that all of his blood work is perfect. So on Tuesday, we will start all over with another internist because he is still in pain. Until Monday, the weekend was perfect. After that, not so much. Here's hoping for a nice weekend this weekend!