A few weeks ago I posted about A Little Weekend Fun and told you about how Wendy’s messed up our food for our picnic.  Well, Wendy’s gave us a gift card to make up for our bad experience.  So, we decided to re-do the entire evening.

We stopped at Wendys picked up our food (checked it before we left) and headed off to the park.  We ate our food, that was made correctly by the way.  Hailey didn’t eat much because she was much too worried about feeding her nuggets and fries to the birds and squirrels. 

Afterwards Hailey wanted to ride the carousel which she did without throwing a tantrum afterwards.  Then we fed the ducks and headed over to the toddler playground.

Hailey loves the swings and never wants to get off.  She doesn’t really look like she is loving it…

…but when Rich asked her if she was ready to get off-  this is her saying “Nooooooo”

Hailey loves going on the slides too.

Things seemed to be going perfectly- our food was right, Hailey was being good… then it happened- a bird flew over me and pooped right on my head.  Yup- you read that right.  The funny thing is that I had a dream a few nights before where that actually happened.  I think I need to plan my dreams a little better if they are going to be coming true.

So our evening was cut a little short since we went home so I could shower and wash my hair 2 or 3 or 15 times.

Today I feel sad.

When I found out I was pregnant in December 2004 my due date given was August 12th, 2005.

God had a different plan for our lives and I had a miscarriage.

I love the life I have today and I wouldn’t want to change anything.  I know if I hadn’t had that miscarriage that we probably wouldn’t have Hailey.  And I can’t even imagine our lives without Hailey.  I am very thankful for the way our lives have turned out.  But, I still can’t help but think about the 3rd birthday we would be celebrating today if the miscarriage had never happened.

So, today- I just feel sad.

On Saturday we decided to go on a little picnic to a nearby park. Rather than make an actual picnic dinner we decided to just pick up some Wendy’s and head to the park. When we got to the park and took out our food we realized that our burgers had been made completely wrong. We asked for everything on the burgers- lettuce, tomato, pickles, etc. Instead they put nothing on the burgers. Just meat and cheese on a bun. Now whose fault do you think it was that the burgers were wrong? I think it was Wendy’s fault. But Rich- he thought it was my fault for not taking our food out of the bag, opening each burger up and checking to make sure they were right before we left Wendy’s. Ummm- no, I will not do that, ever. But Rich is more than welcome to do that if he wants to.

Anyhoo, after that minor incident we had a wonderful time. Hailey fed most of her food to the birds- which caused a large gathering of birds around our picnic table. Then we walked around and Hailey ran around. Hailey spotted the carousel so we took a ride on it.

I know you can’t really tell by the look on her face, but she loved it.

After the ride was over Hailey wanted to go again.  When she found out we were only taking one ride it was not pleasant.  There was screaming and crying and yelling “MORE RIDE!”  We distracted her for a little while by watching some boats.  But when it was time to go home and she realized we were not going on the carousel again there was more screaming and crying.  And it continued for most of the way home.  And it continued for a while after we were home too with her yelling, “I WANT RIDE!  I WANT RIDE!”

Anyhoo we actually did have a really nice time.  But aren’t these toddler years fun?

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The test results from Hailey’s blood work are back and everything was fine.  There are no infections and her white blood cell count is normal.  Thank you everyone for your comments, emails and mostly your prayers.

The knot that’s been in my stomach since I first found the swollen lymph nodes back it March?  It’s gone.