Thursday, June 25, 2009

Mini Pukers

Max has 2 black eyes. Cannon we thought would have a black eye, but its just a scrape right next to his eye. We're not abusers I swear. :) We went to Montana to visit, and Max caught Tanner's head with one eye, and Tanner's foot with his other eye. Total accident of course, but he's pretty funny looking. Cannon's scrape is from Max and a toy helicopter incident. Boys.

Turns out Cannon gets car sick. Max gets car sick too, but not nearly to the extreme of Cannon. Jerrad thinks this is funny, I think mainly because he is still bitter from having family vacations of vomit smelling vehicles from Brent. We hit Hood River last Wednesday, and just as Brent and Max made into McDonald's, Cannon puked his guts all over himself, car, carseat, etc. Wow, awesome. We got him all cleaned up, and the car seat as puke free as we could, and headed out again to Walla Walla. About Boardman, he puked again. I don't know if you're familiar with Boardman, but its on I - 84, the straightest road ever. Who pukes on straight roads!? Apparently, Cannon. I then wedged myself between car seats in the backseat of the subaru. We have a puke bowl that goes on all car trips. Cannon, only being one, doesn't yet get the "puke in the bowl" game. My plan was to sit with the bowl on my lap, stare at Cannon and watch for signs of up-chuck to catch them in the bowl. Good times huh!? It wasn't a perfect plan, but sitting between the seats was better than sitting in the front seat, facing backwards. Both Max & Cannon fell asleep about 20 minutes outside of Walla Walla. We washed everything, and had dinner and stayed with Diane & Gary. The next day we headed to Missoula totally afraid of more of the same. Luckily, Cannon fell asleep pretty early, and only had one small "urp." I called the doctor today to ask about medications to drug the little guy for future car trips. He didn't have anything for little dudes younger than 6. Poor kid, he's just miserable and exhausted and sick the whole trip.

We are headed to Tillamook next week for the fourth. We're taking the tent trailer to sleep in, and I'm thrilled! We are very much looking forward to visiting with Brent's family and relaxing. Max & Cannon will stay there the following week for some fun grandparent time, and because I'll be having surgery. THE LAST ONE! I won't be able to lift them for a while, but I'm very excited to have it all over and done with.

2 comments:

Bob said...

wtmi! LOL Cya soon!

Unknown said...

Hi Melissa,

Glad to read that things are going well. Your "little dudes" are sure cute! Wishing you well on your LAST surgery...and a Happy 4th of July.

Chella G.