Can't keep a good man down

David recovered from a surgery that would have hobbled an adult man for several weeks in an afternoon and has been on the go since Friday evening. The first couple of trips to the bathroom were bad times, really bad times, but since then he's been feeling dandy.

We continued our family's annual tradition of gorging ourselves to the point that we really should be ashamed at the Taste of Chicago. This year we made it 6 out of 10 days (not bad with the wedding and surgery thrown in), visited 40 out of 54 booths and tried something like 63 food items (54 unique items). Completely sick but very enjoyable. The key lime pie from JR's bakery was a big winner. We ate 5 pieces. David particularly enjoyed ice cream in any form he could get it and "spicy rice" (jambalaya). And in case you are wondering, no, none of these statistics that no normal family would keep are personal bests (except perhaps the 5 pieces of key lime pie).
David enjoying some corn and watermelon from the Dominick's booth

Ramma's favorite--Rainbow Cone! David's favorite--the pig at the booth with all the sausages!

We spent yesterday afternoon at Grandma and Grandpa's house. David had fun playing with bubbles and running every adult in sight ragged playing Davidball, which is essentially soccer with no restriction on using your hands and with both teams able to score at either goal. There was also a disappointing number of plays that involved David giving me the ball and then telling every one else to chase me. He wanted to stay for the fireworks and then demanded to go home as soon as they started.

Earlier in the weekend, David had asked to go on a boat ride. Since Kevin and I were both off of work today, we obliged. He had requested that Uncle Dave and GG come with but was denied on both accounts. Uncle Dave's honeymoon excuse went over ok, but he was still asking for GG when we left the house this morning. The unfortunate thing about the boat tour is how clearly visible Navy Pier is when you're out on the lake. The unfortunate thing about having a really fantastic nanny who takes him to do all kinds of fun things is that he knows Navy Pier better than Kevin and I do. So after we got off the boat, we headed there for lunch, mini golf, a carousel ride, the ferris wheel and Italian ice before finally heading back home. David crashed and burned around 7:00 tonight, and quite frankly, I'm surprised Kevin and I are still awake.

On the boat and on the ferris wheel