In May, Bobbins' parents took us all on a vacation to Palm Springs. And by all, I mean Bobbins and each of her four siblings and all their families. The best part was that each family had their own condo with kitchen at the resort, which also had many pools. Some of the units, including ours, even came with a garage. It was awesome.
We set out on a Saturday wearing our green family shirt. Bobbins was green when she was kid, and her brothers had their own colors. It was an easy three hour drive over. The kids were great and didn't use the ipad the whole way, just sat there patiently.
Booch did escape at one point.
JoJo sure loves that doll, which she calls "Baby Daddy."
Dennis & Rebecca graciously invited us to the St. Bernadette fundraiser this year. They had two extra tickets so we called the Schaefers over too. It wasn't a casino night, but Mexican themed. Food was delicious, some nice wines, and decent auction items. I ended up winning what I put in for, which wasn't really as great as I first thought. But it was called "Boys Will Be Boys" and I got suckered getting it for Booch. Rebecca continued her lucky streak by winning a bike, and each of the ladies took home several of the fake bouqets. All in all a great night.
Margaret also lost her first two teeth at the beginning of May, her bottom middle teeth. I teased her about getting my pliers, but she was a trooper and pulled them out herself. Being the hoarder she is, she didn't want to put them under her pillow, despite what we told her about the tooth fairy. It took us a couple of days to convince her not to keep them for herself and to give them up to the fairy.
Bobbins captured the first one on V I D E O.
[https://youtu.be/2FYuAZGIlSY
Margaret's had a tough spell physically recently. At the beginning of May she developed some kind of infection in her big toe, probably from not letting her mom cut it properly. Even the ladies at the pedicure place in Palm Springs wouldn't touch it. Bobbins treated it her witches brews and salt baths, and I was able to cut out the nail, and it seems to be fine now. Then last week, while Bobbins was babysitting, Cell was playing with some coins in a toy dish and accidentally swallowed a nickel. After some googling, I determined she'd be ok and would just have to pass the thing. But it was briefly traumatic for her. I probably didn't help it by saying we'd have to take her to the hospital and the doctors would have to cut her open to get it. I've been trying to check her poop to make sure it comes out, but Bobbins doesn't want to bother, so we'll probably miss it. Would've been a good memento.
