If you can even call it a "fortune." Who gets a fortune like that? Henry did. Yesterday at the Chinese restaurant. And oh, the alien did "manifest" itself in the form of a bad stomach bug that hit around 7 p.m. and caused the little guy to throw up 12 times in 8 hours.
We have this book. It’s about a boy named Henry. The more books he eats, the smarter he gets. So he keeps eating more and more books until one day, it starts to make Henry sick. He turns green, greener, greenest and then "bokes" (throws-up). At approx. 3:36 a.m. and just after finishing the 12th time ‘boking’, a very sleepy Henry turns to me and says, "Mama, I don’t want to boke anymore." "I know, sweetheart, I don’t want you to either." I just kept praying and praying he would keep something down. Every ounce of water came up. He was so dehydrated, he had dark circles under his eyes. It must have worked. He woke up feeling much better and although his appetite hasn’t quite returned, he is drinking fluids, and they are staying down. I’m so relieved.
On Sunday, we had a ‘family party’, or so I thought. It turned out to be a surprise baby shower for me (you turkeys!!!) Dustin, who was my sisters wedding photographer and my other sisters beau, was there taking gorgeous photographs as usual. I actually had no idea he was taking so many pictures of Henry and they just turned out so very, very lovely (and how about that crazy quilt that was my great-grandmother Ava’s?)
See what I mean? Thanks so much for capturing this, Dustin. We will love and cherish these forever.
The reason I’m telling ya’ all this is because he is coming to Southern California the end of March and has a limited ammount of photo shoots open. He is offering them at a ridiculously good rate (seriously, I think he should be charging 4x the ammount.) So if you are interested, e-mail him at dustin@dustinbradbury.com. He’ll send you the rates and availability (and I know there are lots of you moving away this summer…sob!!- this would be the perfect opportunity to get some family pics in CA!) He can do bridals, new babies, family sessions, pregnancy, ou name it. He is amazing. Definitely don’t miss out!
Happy Tuesday!
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