The Weekend (addendum).

I wanted to document this story while it was still fresh in my mind.
The details become fuzzy too soon and this one is too good to forget.
We drove back from Rochester today. Usually it's not too bad of a trip. We made it in six and a half hours out there. We were looking forward to a leisurely trip home, stopping when we needed to, but we weren't trying to set any land speed records. We had just passed Indian Castle and gave Pat and Erica a call, asking if we could stop in to say hello. We were about an hour away, so that gave them some lead time to prepare for the swath of destruction that Sam and Caroline would surely leave in their apartment.
We finalized our plans - no problem. We would see them in about an hour.
Now, let's set the stage here. Sam had just previously had two of the worst nights in recent memory (we will never, ever, ever forget the Zantac again). Ordinarily, this would not be a huge deal - but all of us were sleeping in the same room - so we all were pretty ragged. Both kids had been sleeping since about the west side of Syracuse and Jim and I were loving the peace and quiet. I was enjoying a book. We had found the Yankees game on the radio and were having a lovely time. We figured we would be able to zoom right through to Guilderland without making any stops. It's a great plan, right?
We see a sign "Next Rest Area 38 Miles."
Suddenly - we smell something. It's not pleasant. Uh-oh.
We look behind us. Sam is awake and covered, almost head to toe, with poop. Literally.
Awesome.
It takes us a couple minutes to get to a place where the road is relatively straight, so we can pull over. In the meantime, I'm trying to keep the boy entertained so we don't have any finger painting going on. We pull over as far as we can and get out of the car. We're standing in a rocky ditch. We strip Sam down so that he's naked. Jim is holding him under the armpits (by this time all three of us are covered in poo) and I'm frantically trying to clean hip up. And while the two of us are busy working, Sam is having a GREAT time waving to all the trucks going by yelling "Truck! Truck!" He was having so much fun that we couldn't help but laugh.
So we were a little late getting to Guilderland.
But all is well that ends well. =-)

The girls got new headbands this weekend:


So did Sam:

We had a lot of fun up at the carousel and the pier:


The kids had lots of fun:


Caroline even got to see the firetrucks up close:

We went for a walk on the Canal Path:



And we saw the Chili parade this morning (of course). I think we waited longer than the parade actually lasted: