Kylie May and Her Mama To The Rescue Day 164

Achilles had his heel, Sampson had his hair, Superman had his kryptonite, and I have the hours from 7-9pm.  I learned (not through a 12 step program, but it works there too) that admitting you have a problem is the first move toward recovery.  As much as I like to feel like an able bodied father (I mean my job is to take care of peds all night), I had to call in the big guns for tonight's hangout with Kylie May.  No it wasn't the National Guard (I tried they were busy), and it wasn't Super Nanny (Kylie is a little too young for her work), but I did one better.  I convinced Nat to go in a couple hours late tonight so that she could stay home and help get the little podless pea to bed....without an hour of tears.  There is no backup like miss Kylie May's mama.  To say I'm thankful that she is here is....ummm...yeah. a slight (by slight I mean huge) understatement.

Until the sun started to set (which always evokes a slight state of panic on nights that Nat works), Kylie played and played and played.  She had a great time playing in the kids room during church today.  Her only lament was that at one point every other baby in the room got to sit and eat Cheerios while she just sat on the side watching them.  It was in the midst of all the babies crunching that Nat overheard a faint song coming from Kylie's curled over lips, "One, is the loneliest number...."  Who said babies are oblivious to their surroundings?  Must have been a communist.

Sweet smiley Kylie also found it fascinating to Tango with the Porterville clan this afternoon.  It had been so long since she'd seen any of them (Beach Week, over a month ago) that she was excited to see all their happy smiling megapixel faces.  She has been anxious to show them all how well she sits up...and she did not disappoint. She ended up falling over mid conversation (which really upset her that she couldn't stick the dismount) but we had to reinforce that even Jordan Weiber and Gabby Douglas don't nail every routine.

Some dinner, a bath, and a massage rounded out tonight's festivities, but I'm sure there are some post show fireworks waiting to light up the night at some point.   Lets just hope it's more of a sparkler show than a Fantasmic type performance.

more to come soon,

-Craig-

sorry :-( no photos were clicked in the making of this post, but maybe I can find a video....stay tuned